Posts tagged motor vehicle accidents

• Family Says Goodbye to Child Hit By SUV

  Eddie Farah | November 15, 2007 10:42 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  It is a story we report here all too frequently.As SUV's get bigger, children stay little and difficult to see near the road. That's what happened to Shykeria Bynes.Last month she was crossing the street with her brothers to go to a nearby Gate gas station to buy candy with $1. The 6-year-old was holding their hands near 45th Street and Moncrief Road in Northwest Jacksonville. Shyshy as she...

• Favorite Principal Dies In Traffic Accident

  Eddie Farah | November 09, 2007 12:09 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Just the night before she died, Principal Kimberly Sue Brannan was at a program honoring Baker County's veterans where she commended her students.Friday morning, 44-year-old Brannan was driving on I-10 just west of I-295 on her way with three other teachers to a continuing education meeting in St. Augustine. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, Brannan, who was not wearing a seat belt, was...

• Florida Teens Wary of the Road

  Eddie Farah | November 08, 2007 8:46 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  It used to be you couldn't wait to get behind the wheel as a teenager.But if state statistics tell an accurate story, today teens are waiting to get their driver's license.The Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles statistics show that among sixteen-year-olds, 40 percent have their license. Compare that with 60 percent more than 20 years ago. And older teen drivers, 18 and...

• 11-Year-Old Killed Running for Bus

  Eddie Farah | October 26, 2007 8:03 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  It seems as though we are reporting this much too often.This time an 11-year old Callahan girl, Kelly Martinez, was crossing two-lane Lem Turned Road south of Church Road. It was about 7 a.m. and the girl was going to her school bus stop when she was hit by a Jeep Cherokee. Linda Brabham, 50, also of Callahan didn't see the girl and police do not believe she was driving improperly.Martinez...

• How Do We Get Downtown?

  Eddie Farah | October 23, 2007 10:31 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  There was a lot of confusion getting into downtown Monday, Oct 22, so the Department of Transportation plans on installing more signs to help motorists get there.Part of the problem is a new temporary ramp for motorists exiting onto Forsyth, Monroe, Union and King streets. If you are driving east on I-10, you are advised to go north on I-95 and exit the ramp immediately after the merge point...

• Investigation Reveals Airbags Often Fail

  Eddie Farah | October 23, 2007 3:41 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  This investigation by the Kansas City Star reveals that more often than should happen, front airbags do not inflate in head-on crashes. Unfortunately you do not know until you need them. The newspaper looked into the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) database and found that at least 1,400 motorists died from 2001 through 2006 in collisions where the airbags did not deploy. ...

• Hit-And-Run Driver Arrested

  Eddie Farah | October 20, 2007 12:17 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  It is unusual for a hit-and-run fatality to ever be solved. That's why we are encouraged to report that there has been an arrest in the death of Clint Malone, killed early last Saturday morning in Panama Ciity Beach by a hit-and-run driver.20-year-old Jeremy Matthew Hunt has been charged with leaving the scene of a crash that killed someone. Hunt was driving a pick up truck and had left Salty's...

• Police Need Your Help Finding Hit-and-Run Driver

  Eddie Farah | October 15, 2007 1:28 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A colleague of mine has asked us to put out the word on a hit-and-run that took the life of a family friend. The driver has not been apprehended.This happened early Saturday morning in Panama City Beach. 33-year-old Clint S. Malone was an attorney from Vero Beach visiting friends and family in the area. Early Saturday morning, Malone was out for an early morning bicycle ride on Thomas Drive. ...

• Officer of the Law Sentenced for Auto Accident

  Eddie Farah | October 13, 2007 9:52 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  For 17 years, Michael Gallagher has worked at the U.S. attorney's office helping prosecute those who violate the law. On Friday, the 50-year-old admitted his driving caused the death of a 23-year-old woman by driving too fast. He was sentenced to seven years in prison and five years probation.In August, he pled guilty to vehicular manslaughter on the eve of his trial. The accident happened in...

• Legislature Revives PIP In New Year

  Eddie Farah | October 05, 2007 6:46 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Call it the 11th hour.Apparently the states' no-fault system of insurance known as PIP (Personal Injury Protection) will be back January 1st, 2008, if Governor Crist signs a bill passed Friday by the Florida Legislature.Meeting in special session, the Senate joined the House in reviving PIP which had sunset October 1st. PIP had been virorously opposed by insurance industry lobbyists who said...