Posts tagged vehicle

• SR 100 Closes and Driver Killed When Two Rigs Collide

  Eddie Farah | September 20, 2007 11:53 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  It happened Tuesday afternoon in Putnam County. A semi, driven by 35-year old Frank Browning of Lawtey, was heading west on SR 100. He came upon another tractor-trailer, but this one had stopped in the road in front of him. FHP reports that for some reason Browning failed to slow down in time and hit the rig in front of him. Browning was killed at the scene while the other driver was not...

• Carjacked Woman Fights For Her Life

  Eddie Farah | September 17, 2007 12:16 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Your driveway is probably the last place you might feel you're in danger from a carjacker.But that's what happened to Jaime Hile early Friday morning. Getting out of her car in her Jacksonville neighborhood, a man dressed in black and armed with a gun approached the driver's side.Get out of the car he demanded. Mrs. Hile was feisty enough to refuse. But when the gunman asked, "Have you ever...

• Truck Pile-Up Blocks I-10

  Eddie Farah | September 17, 2007 1:50 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The eastbound lanes of I-10 turned into a parking lot for three hours before dawn Monday after three tractor-trailers collided.FHP reports that a big rig driven east by Michael Suber of Callahan approached two semi-trucks that had already collided. Suber couldn't stop in time and hit both trucks.The chain reaction left one driver with seriouis injuries. Suber is cited with careless driving. ...

• 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...