Posts tagged car accident

• Wrongful Death in Motorcycle Accident

  Craig Cannon | March 23, 2007 3:09 PM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A man died in a car accident Monday afternoon. He was a 75-year-old trucking company owner who split time between Central Florida and Richmond, Va. He owned Butler Transport for 25 years in Richmond. His Florida home was in Leesburg. It's possible he was heading to or from her home when the crash happened.The victim was eastbound on County Road 486 in Citrus Hills at about 4:15 p.m. Monday...

• Driver Transporting 11 Children, Cited for Accident

  Christina Cole | March 15, 2007 7:00 PM | 0 CommentsFt. Myers, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Fort Myers Police is investigating a day care worker that has been involved in a car accident on Wednesday with eleven children. None of the children had their seatbelts on, nor were they in car seats, say police.Officials say the woman was driving her Dodge Durango on State Road 82 when she tried turning left onto Buckingham when she drove into the path of a van. The driver of the van was...

• 13 Car Accident Causes Deaths

  Craig Cannon | March 14, 2007 8:07 AM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Heavy fog and smoke on The Florida Turnpike near Orlando caused a 13-vehicle wreck. The crash resulted in 5 wrongful deaths. Four other people were injured. All five deaths occurred during the second crash, Florida Highway Patrol said in a statement. No one was injured in the first or third crashes. Two people from Boynton Beach and one person from Gainesville were killed in the accident. A...

• Car Accident Insurance

  Craig Cannon | March 08, 2007 5:55 PM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  If you are injured in a car accident you should know the basics about car insurance. Different automobile insurance coverage provides payment for different things. Generally a combination of insurance coverage from your automobile insurance policy, the automobile insurance policy of the vehicle you may have been riding in, or the automobile insurance policy for the other vehicle or vehicles...

• Florida Adds Emergency Contact Database

  Shannon Weidemann | February 27, 2007 8:27 PM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Sometimes with a car accident or other emergency law enforcement have a hard time finding a family member to contact. The Florida Driver and Vehicle Information Database has now been changed so that anyone with a driver's license or state identification card can add an emergency contact person and phone number.In the event that a resident is hurt or killed in a traffic crash or other accident,...

• 3-year-old Injured in Hit and Run

  Christina Cole | February 17, 2007 2:38 AM | 0 CommentsFt. Myers, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Police are searching for the driver that ran over a three-year-old boy "twice" in a hit and run accident.The driver of a white truck backed up over the boy and then rolled over him again, before taking off. The car was found blocks away from the accident, but the driver is still unknown.The boy is in critical condition but authorities report he is expected to recover from his injuries. He was...

• Two Men Injured in Car Crash

  Craig Cannon | February 13, 2007 3:53 PM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  This was published in the Ocala Star Banner. Two area men suffered serious personal injury Tuesday morning after their pickup truck drove under the side of a large dump truck, crushing the cab and trapping the two front-seat occupants. Both men were airlifted to Shands at the University of Florida in Gainesville. One man remained in critical condition for his personal injuries while the other...

• One Killed, 3 Injured in Rollover

  Christina Cole | February 06, 2007 12:12 AM | 0 CommentsFt. Myers, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  At 4:42pm, a Fort Myers man was traveling east in a two-door 1998 Chevy on Wildflower Way, Florida Highway Patrol reports. While traveling at a high speed, Perez lost control of the vehicle and slid clockwise toward the shoulder of the road, the FHP reported.The left side tires then hit a raised concrete curb edge, causing the vehicle to overturn many times across the shoulder.The driver and a...

• Man Killed in Fort Myers Car Crash Identified

  Christina Cole | January 31, 2007 12:38 AM | 0 CommentsFt. Myers, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  According to the Florida highway Patrol, a 29-year-old Lehigh Acres woman was identified as the pedestrian that was killed in a car accident last night.Heidi M. Thacker was hit by a car on Monday night while walking north on Bass Road. The fist car swerved to avoid hitting Thacker, who was walking in the road, but ended up hitting her. Another car that had breaked to avoid the accident, ran her...

• New York Man Killed in Car Accident in Ocala

  Shannon Weidemann | January 29, 2007 10:04 PM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A man from New York was killed when he pulled out onto U.S. 27 in front of an oncoming car. The unidentified 80-year-old man was driving a 2001 Buick. He pulled out of the Howard Johnson parking lot and was hit by a 2004 Chevy Avalanche driven by Michael Grosso, age 77. The driver of the Buick died on the scene. His wife, also age 80, was a passenger in the car and she was airlifted to...