Automobile Accidents

• Two Injured In Crash With Deputy

  Diego Madrigal | January 08, 2008 9:57 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  Two women were taken to the hospital this morning after apparently not following traffic laws and colliding with a Polk County Sheriff's deputy. According to reports, the deputy was traveling southbound on US 17 responding to an emergency when the women's Pontiac Grand Prix pulled into the intersection resulting in the car crash. The impact of the auto accident pushed the Grand Prix 120 feet. ...

• Do Cell Phones Cause Auto Accidents

  Ed Normand | December 14, 2007 10:14 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  Recently a very large jury verdict was entered in a case where one of the main issues was whether or not the drivir who caused the car accident was talking on a cell phone while driving. Currently, Florida has not legislation directly prohibiting the use of cell phones while driving. Further there is no specific law prohibiting the sending of text messages or emails or web surfing while...

• World Record For Man Hit By Car

  Ed Normand | December 09, 2007 9:57 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  There are many ways to get in the Guinness Book of World Records but some seem easier than others. A good Samaritan who stopped to help out the victims of an auto accident made it the hard way. The man was hit by a car and thrown in the air for 118 feet--a world record. The distance entitled him to a world record actually called "Greatest Distance Thrown in a Car Accident" . Thankfully...

• Longstanding Effects of Brain Injury

  Ed Normand | December 03, 2007 12:48 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  While we are all familiar with the obvious signs of a major head injury, subtle effects can remain forever unnoticed even by the family or the patient!! An interesting study of the long term effects of brain injury succinctly evaluates some of the long term less obvious problems that head injury victims face. Sometimes unrecognized, but nevertheless very real, symptoms of brain trauma...

• FHP: 27 Killed in Auto Accidents over Thanksgiving

  Diego Madrigal | November 29, 2007 1:41 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  Twenty seven (27) people were killed over the Thanksgiving Holiday in auto accidents investigated by the Florida Highway Patrol. Despite both the law and common knowledge, many of those killed were not wearing their seatbelts. In fact, 80% of those killed in vehicles equipped with safety belts were not wearing the seat belts! Additional tidbits are that there were 26 fatal crashes, 15 of...

• Death and 8 injuries in turnpike car accident

  Ed Normand | November 25, 2007 9:49 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  A tragic auto accident on the turnpike near Yeehaw Junction resulted in the death of one man, and 7 others injured including 5 children. It was a one car accident. According to the FHP none of the passengers in the vehicle were wearing seatbelts. The SUV was headed north on the Turnpike, near mile marker 189, when it went in the center median. The SUV then rolled over twice. All nine of the...

• Nations School Buses to Add Safety Features

  Sandy Grinnell | November 20, 2007 3:43 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  New federal safety rules proposed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration under the U.S. Department of Transportation are intended to make America's 474,000 school buses safer when involved in traffic accidents. Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters rode along in a school bus with children from Morrisville Elementary School this week wearing her three-point seatbelt, which is...

• Buckle Up, America. Thanksgiving is Coming!

  Sandy Grinnell | November 18, 2007 7:42 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  In an effort to reduce the number of auto accidents and traffic fatalities this Thanksgiving, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is asking everyone to please use their seatbelts. During the 2005 Thanksgiving holiday, there were 732 deaths on America's highways and 367, or 50%, of those victims were not properly restrained. Although the percentage of Americans who wear their...

• Another Good Samaritan Killed on I-95

  Sandy Grinnell | November 12, 2007 11:07 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  A man from Tamarac was killed by a drunk driver last Saturday in Martin County. The man had stopped to help a woman from Greenacres who was stranded on I-95. The man parked his car in front of the broken down vehicle and he went back to the driver's side of his car for something. The drunk driver swerved at the same time as we was passing the stopped vehicles and struck and killed the 50...

• FHP Operation Safe Ride Yields 593 Citations

  Sandy Grinnell | November 07, 2007 3:23 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  In an effort to reduce the number of auto accident deaths and injuries involving large trucks, the Florida Highway Patrol performed Operation Safe Ride last month. On October 24 and 25, FHP concentrated their enforcement efforts on commerical vehicles traveling on all of the interstates, the Florida Turnpike and other high volume highways. In the two day period they issued a total of 593...