Posts tagged fatal

• Majority of Work Zone Fatalities are Motorists, Pedestrians

  Ed Normand | April 25, 2012 8:55 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  This video from the New York Times was part of a December 2009 story about deadly accidents in highway work zones around the country. The segment above begins with the story of a 42-year-old...

• Should More Action Be Taken After Yesterdays Fatal Crash?

  Ed Normand | January 30, 2012 11:46 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Poor visibility on Interstate 75 was the cause of a fatal car accident killing 10 early Sunday morning. Involved in this car accident were tractor trailers, passenger vehicles, and even a mobile...

• Trucker Fatigue Prompts For a New Federal Safety Law

  Orman Kimbrough, Jr. | September 08, 2011 9:51 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  Federal regulators say that trucker fatigue is causing fatal accidents, even as the number of fatal truck crashes has dropped in recent years after a major overhaul of rules that took effect in...

• Car Accidents Abroad

  Ed Normand | January 27, 2010 8:30 AM | 1 CommentOrlando, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  We often worry about contaminated water or infectious diseases when traveling abroad, but how many of us really think about road and traffic safety? A study publicized in 2007 by the Journal of...

• Florida Traffic Crash Statistics

  Ed Normand | January 25, 2010 11:30 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  In the year 2008, the most recent year that data is available, Florida reported 2,938 fatalities in an estimated 243,342 police reported motor vehicle crashes. Traffic crashes accounted for 199,658...

• Three-Year-Old Killed on I-95 Wreck With Tractor-Trailer

  Eddie Farah | December 29, 2009 10:35 PM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A three-year-old Pittsburgh boy died in a crash on Interstate-95 in McIntosh County, Georgia Sunday afternoon. Witnesses say a tractor-trailer, was heading at a high rate of speed before...

• Teen Driver Dies One Week After Fatal SUV Crash Kills Mother

  Eddie Farah | December 12, 2009 4:04 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  There seems to be no end to the tragedy suffered by one Jacksonville family. Last weekend, the family was vacationing in Orlando when their GMC Yukon SUV suddenly lurched forward in a parking lot,...

• A Family's Liability- when a family is negligent, does the liability extend down the family chain?

  Gabrielle D'Alemberte | August 24, 2009 6:24 PM | 6 CommentsMiami, FL Category: Wrongful Death
  

  On July 26th 2009, Diane Schuler loaded her 2 children and three nieces into her car and hit the road, returning home to Long Island after a weekend of camping. This was 9:30 in the morning. By 1:30...

• Jacksonville - Most Crashes In Florida In 2008

  Eddie Farah | July 08, 2009 11:12 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Just how are we doing as a state in regard to highway fatalities? A new report issued from the Florida Highway Patrol compiled crash data from around the state for 2008. Unbelievably- Jacksonville...

• Pinellas Park Motorcyclist Killed in Crash on I-75

  Joe Saunders | June 03, 2009 8:59 AM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  A 24 year old Pinellas Park motorcyclist was killed early this morning when his motorcycle veered into the path of a tractor trailer. The crash caused the motorcycle to split in two and catch on...