Posts tagged motor vehicle accidents

• I-95 Auto Accident Kills Teen Best Friends

  Eddie Farah | April 12, 2007 11:35 PM | 3 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Amanda Alzate was just 19 years old. One of seven children. She was often asked if she was a model.Amanda lost her life around 3pm Wednesday when she was ejected from the truck that was being driven by her best friend, Sandra Monzon.The truck tried to access a highway ramp and instead rolled.According to the Florida Highway Patrol, Sandra Monzon, also 19, tried to cut through the grass to make...

• Police Say Cyclist Caused Tractor-Trailer Crash

  Eddie Farah | April 13, 2007 11:39 PM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  You see them all the time on the road--cyclists who sometimes follow the rules of the road--sometimes do not. Something went terribly wrong Wednesday evening when 18-year-old Ronald Dale of Waycross, Georgia failed to stop at a sign and that began a chain of events resulting in the death of a female motorist. 33-year old Sarah Elaine Cribb Poss was just trying to avoid Dale. She did, but lost...

• Legislature May Reform PIP

  Eddie Farah | April 05, 2007 11:08 PM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  We see it every day. A person injured in an auto accident goes to the doctor for common pains that result. Even without health insurance, Personal Injury Protection or PIP, which every person pays for as part of their auto policy, can mean the difference between finding problems or letting chronic conditions go undiagnosed. But the insurance lobby wants to get rid of PIP and the up to $10,000...

• Latest Pedestrian v. Auto Accident Statistics

  Ed Normand | January 30, 2009 2:25 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has issued the latest statistics on accidents involving pedestrians and motor vehicles in the United States. The report details the number...

• Car Lodged Under Semitrailer

  Eddie Farah | March 29, 2008 1:06 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Traffic on Interstate 95 just south of Jacksonville had to come to a crawl as the road was closed when a car drove underneath a semitrailer.The Florida Highway Patrol says that 41-year-old Robert Barker drove his Honda into a semi and continued driving until the front of his vehicle went under the truck's trailer.This all happened early in the morning Friday, about 2:40 in the southbound lanes. ...

• 9-Year-Old's Family Sues After Autistic Son Injured on School Bus

  Eddie Farah | March 26, 2008 8:30 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  It's tough to argue with the picture of the bruises.The parents of a 9-year old boy who is autistic and blind say that attendants on a First Student school bus abused their child and left marks on him. They are suing the bus attendants and First Student Inc. charging negligence and battery."There has been an outrageous sequence of events," said the family's attorney, Eric Block.The incident...

• Freak Accident with Bus Kills City Worker

  Eddie Farah | March 26, 2008 1:16 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The likelihood of this happening is very slim.But one man who worked as a traffic engineer was in a bucket working on a traffic light. The driver of a Jacksonville Transportation Authority bus either didn't see the flag man or ignored him and struck the truck knocking the man 52-year old Cesar Solomon out of the bucket to fall to his death.Police report that the work crew appeared to be doing...

• Florida Man Arrested For Hitting Police Cruiser in Georgia

  Eddie Farah | March 25, 2008 9:47 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A Florida man is under arrest after ending a police pursuit by crashing his vehicle into a Georgia State Patrol deputy's car.Sunday about 1 in the afternoon, Theodore Thomas Wagner approached the security guard at the Bayer Corporation in Kingsland, Georgia. He was reportedly acting erratically. He said he was being chased and he was a short while later when he was on I-95 after attracting...

• Legislature Looking At Safer Streets

  Eddie Farah | March 22, 2008 1:49 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  More legislative action is proposed out of Tallahassee this session that might help keeps roads safer.One of the more innovative involves placing red-light cameras that would take a driver's image when they are caught running a red light. A violation could result in a fine. A seat belt violation proposal is back. It would allow law enforcement to pull over someone for not wearing their seat...

• Legislature Trying To Curtail Teen Auto Accidents

  Eddie Farah | March 21, 2008 11:33 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Tallahassee lawmakers are trying to make driving safer for all of us by cracking down on left lane hogs. You've seen them going slow in the left passing lane while talking on their cell phone oblivious to lights. Often they aren't even wearing their seat belt. Proposed Senate Bill 1266 and House Bill 357 would make it illegal to talk on the phone while driving in Florida. That's already the...