Posts tagged motor vehicle accidents

• Jacksonville Roads Get Good Marks

  Eddie Farah | March 12, 2008 10:38 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  While cracked roads and potholes have been causing motorists to shell out about $400 extra in wear and tear on their cars, a national study says that Jacksonville's roads rank as "good" when compared to the nation. 9 percent are "mediocre" and 4 percent of our roads are rated as poor.The ratings were conducted by the nonprofit research group that focuses on transportation called TRIP, based...

• Three Injured in Pensacola Car Accident

  Shannon Weidemann | March 11, 2008 4:21 PM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A car accident in Pensacola on Thursday sent three people to the hospital. The accident involved two cars traveling on Mobile Highway. One car flipped and landed on top of the other car. The first car was stopped, facing west on Boulder Avenue, then pulled out into the path of McClain's vehicle, which was traveling north on Mobile Highway, troopers said. McClain's vehicle collided with the...

• Atlantic Blvd. Auto Accident Kills One

  Eddie Farah | March 09, 2008 10:06 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  There is nothing more frightening that thinking that a drunk person may be behind the wheel of the car next to you.Several motorists were frightened Sunday when a pickup truck truck speeded down Atlantic Avenue then lost control and flew into the air. After going airborne the vehicle flipped over the median landing on top of another car this afternoon.Police investigating the scene say they...

• Bicyclist Hit, Killed By Two Autos

  Eddie Farah | March 08, 2008 9:55 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  You have to wonder what he was thinking.A 42-year old man ridiing a bicycle in the dark. It was raining. Thomas Mattox, 42, was from St. Augustine but for some reason he was riding his bicycle about 10 pm on U.S. 17 in Putnam County.Mattox was crossing the road when he was hit by the first car. Chantel Sloan, 17, reportedly didn't see Mattox. His bicycle had no lights and he was wearing dark...

• I-95 Auto Accident Involving Car, Bus

  Eddie Farah | March 07, 2008 12:59 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  There was no match between a tour bus with 60 people on board and a car. The two tangled on Interstate 95 this afternoon. The bus won.The two vehicles were traveling southbound on I-95 just beyond International Golf Parkway.Four people were in the car. All were injured and taken to Flagler Hospital. There is no word on their condition.Everyone on the bus was okay except they couldn't get the...

• Bike Week Brings Death And Auto Accidents To Our Roads

  Eddie Farah | March 04, 2008 5:53 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  It happens every year and every year we report that more people have died on our local roads.Bike Week in Daytona brings motorcyclists from around the country. Some are wearing helmets, many are not since it is not required for adults in Florida to do so. So far this week we have five deaths to report. In the first a man and a woman were killed in New Smyna Beach on state road 44 Sunday night....

• Pickup Truck Occupants Ejected

  Eddie Farah | February 29, 2008 11:24 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Neither man was wearing a seat belt.So when the pickup truck they were driving in Columbia County drove off the road, one man was killed and a second man was in critical condition Thursday evening.53-year-old Ronald Turner was killed according to the Florida Highway Pastrol. His passenger 49-year-old Randy Grover was injured when the 1988 Chevrolet pickukp truck ran off Double Run Road around...

• Car Found May Be Hit-and-Run Vehicle

  Eddie Farah | February 28, 2008 11:26 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The Florida Highway Patrol says it has found a blue Mustang that may have caused a fatal crash Monday.Parts of Roosevelt Boulevard were shut down for hours and a retired Jacksonville police detective was killed.Three others were hurt when an Acura belong to 20-year-old Matthew Borg crossed the median at Roosevelt Boulevard then went airborne. This happened in front of the Naval Air Station...

• Keeping Kids Safe in Non-Traffic Auto Accidents

  Eddie Farah | February 28, 2008 12:37 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  President Bush today signed the Cameron Gulbransen Kids Transportation Safety Act.It attempts to prevent, albeit too slowly, many of the accidents we report about here that happen in a family's driveway - that is accidents where a child is run over because a relative can't see around their SUV.Cameron was a two-year-old who was killed by his father in the driveway five years ago. 230 children...

• I-10 Westbound Reopened After Fatal Auto Accident

  Eddie Farah | February 23, 2008 11:20 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  I-10 has reopened in the westbound direction after a fatal accident involving a semi truck Saturday morning closed two lanes.It appears the rain may have been the cause. A semi being driver by 47-year old Steven Stoff began moving counter clockwise as he was changing lanes. He lost control and the semi truck flipped in the middle of the interstate. Killed was his passenger, 44-year-old Laura...