Posts tagged safety

• Mom Sentenced In Wreck That Killed Son

  Eddie Farah | May 13, 2009 10:46 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A Jacksonville mother has a long time to think about that day in March of 2008. She was speeding on a rain-slicked road, with her nine-year-old son in the car. Police estimate she may have...

• Leaving Kids In Cars - Please Stop This Fatal Distraction

  Eddie Farah | April 05, 2009 2:15 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Already this year two little ones have been left in cars by inattentive adults to die in the sweltering heat. It’s called hyperthermia and in Florida heat stroke can happen in a very short...

• NFL Player Hits, Kills Florida Man Crossing Street

  Eddie Farah | March 25, 2009 12:53 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Mario Reyes, 59, of Miami was rushing to his work as a construction crane operator. It was about 7:15 in the morning on March 14. Reyes crossed the six-lane MacArthur Causeway, near a...

• Curbing House Parties - The Party's Over Campaign

  Eddie Farah | March 16, 2009 11:00 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Just on the verge of spring break, “The Party’s Over” campaign has been launched in St. Johns County, south of Jacksonville, by Sheriff David Shoar. Underage drinking has gotten...

• Two-Year-Old Killed In Driveway By SUV

  Eddie Farah | March 14, 2009 1:04 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  This is a very sad story we keep reporting because unfortunately it keeps happening. On Tuesday afternoon, a 2-year-old girl died in her driveway when her father backed up his SUV and didn’t...

• What else can we do to get teens to wear seatbelts?

  Sandy Grinnell | February 16, 2009 2:48 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A Central Florida teen lost her life after she was thrown from a vehicle driven by another teen. The teenage driver remains in serious condition after she was pulled from the burning wreckage. The...

• Brace For Impact- Would You Know What To Do In An Airplane Ditching?

  Eddie Farah | January 17, 2009 12:33 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Brace For Impact,” are the last words you want to hear when you are on an airplane. But that is exactly what was said to the 148 passengers onboard a US Airways A320 airbus leaving New...

• Jacksonville Link To Killer of Adam Walsh

  Eddie Farah | December 16, 2008 11:47 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Wrongful Death
  

  27 years is a long time to look for closure, not that it can ever come when your child is murdered. Today the Hollywood, Florida police chief announced that the 1981 murder of Adam Walsh had been...

• Shelhigh: Anatomy of an FDA Medical Device Products Seizure

  Armand Rossetti | December 03, 2008 8:18 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  Usually, our discussions address how the FDA might have timely recalled defective and dangerous medical devices and drugs. However, this is a story about the way that the FDA seems to have...

• 72 Car Safety Awards Highlight U.S. Automakers

  Eddie Farah | November 28, 2008 11:17 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  If you happen to be car shopping, you’ll want to visit the Top Safety Picks from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). The list for 2009 has more domestic cars that ever before....