Posts tagged motor vehicle accidents

• Four Cited As Source of Alcohol That Killed Couple

  Eddie Farah | September 15, 2007 10:34 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  How often do we report of the death of teenagers when alcohol is involved?Unfortunately for 20-year old Ross Roberts and 18-year old Ashleigh Cook, that is likely what contributed to their deaths when the pickup truck they were in ended up in a boat ramp crash into Julington Creek last July4th. Roberts may not have seen a flashing red light at the top of the ramp before driving the truck into...

• Farah & Farah Wins $3.4 Million For Mother of Two

  Eddie Farah | September 14, 2007 10:18 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  November 8, 2004. It started like any other morning for 37-year-old Wendy Sugalski. She had just dropped her teenage child at school and was heading east on Atlantic Boulevard near Kernan to pick-up her other teenager.Sugalski was stopped at a red-light when her car was rear-ended by a 26,000 pound moving truck traveling 40 miles per hour. Her Honda Civic was pushed forward, the force...

• As PIP Sunsets, Don't Wait For The Check

  Eddie Farah | September 13, 2007 8:35 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  This article in the Miami Herald reports that as your personal injury protection (PIP) expires October 1st, you likely will not see a check in the mail from your insurance company.Because drivers dont have to buy a $10,000 in PIP coverage, we were told to expect a 13-16% drop in our auto insurance premium. Insurers no longer had to cover medical bills resulting from an auto accident and the...

• 17-Yr-Old Dies from Northside Crash

  Eddie Farah | September 13, 2007 1:19 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Kimberly Enlow has been fighting for her life for nearly a month. Thursday she died from injuries she sustained in an August 1 collision.Enlow had been at Shands-Jacksonville Medical Center since the head-on collision on Lem Turner Rd. She was one of five people involved. Altogether three teenagers were hospitalized. As we've reported many times here... a distracted driver seems to be the...

• Girl Runs For School Bus Collides With Car

  Eddie Farah | September 06, 2007 12:25 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The 16-year-old thought she might miss the school bus. Today she is in critical condition at Shands after being hit by a car she didn't see while running for the bus. Tiffany Williams had just been dropped off by her mother at Dunn Avenue and Haverford Road on the northside. The young woman ran across Dunn Street to catch the 7 a.m. bus taking her to First Coast High School, apparently unaware...

• Pedestrians in Jeopardy From Speeding Cruisers

  Jane Akre | September 05, 2007 6:59 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  When police are responding to a call, or sometimes even when they are not, pedestrians and bicyclists need to be especially aware of police cruisers. In Jacksonville, a 16-year old was serious hurt when he rode his bicycle into the path of a JSO police vehicle Tuesday afternoon. It happened when Randolph Ross pulled into McQuade Street from Barber Street right in front of a westbound police...

• Toddler Dies In Hot Car

  Jane Akre | September 04, 2007 7:10 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Charges could be filed against a mother who took her toddler to her job and mistakenly left the girl in a hot car to die.It happened in Ocoee. The mother was supposed to take her 22-month old to day care. Instead she went right to her job at City Hall at 9 a.m. When she returned to the car about four hours later, the little girl was passed out in her car seat. She was pronounced dead at the...

• Driver Charged With Homicide

  Eddie Farah | September 01, 2007 10:17 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The accident actually happened last January. 20-year old Justin Hughes had allegedly just committed a burglary in San Mateo along with a couple of friends. The homeowners came home around 11 p.m. and the suspects took off with the homeowners in pursuit. Here is just another example of why high-speed chases are rarely worth the price paid.Hughes lost control of his car and hit a tree killing his...

• Mexican Trucks Coming Soon To U.S. Highways

  Eddie Farah | September 01, 2007 4:11 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  While immigration continues to be a hot topic to debate in some circles--the U.S. apparently does not have the same distain for goods from Mexico.Under a Bush administration plan, the U.S. will soon open its roads to about 100 semi-trucks from Mexico to travel freely on our highways. Up until now, there has been a limited area among border states where south-of-the-border trucks could bring in...

• Truck Stuck Under Overpass

  Jane Akre | August 30, 2007 10:41 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A portion of a downtown Jacksonville underpass was closed Wednesday after a semi-truck got stuck because it was too tall.The Forest Street area was closed for about seven hours under the I-95 overpass when the truck exited I-95 southbound and made a left turn onto Forest St.Unfortunately the driver missed the sign that said the clearance was 13-feet and three inches. Fortunately the driver was...