Automobile Accidents

• What Causes Automobile Accidents?

  Patricia Doherty | August 21, 2007 7:42 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  Most motor vehcile collisions can be avoided. To help you avoid an accident it helps to know the causes. The main factors causing most car accidents are Driver behavior, Poor Roadway Maintenance, Road Design and Equipment Failure. More than 95% of car wrecks (motor vehicle accident, MVA, in the USA or Road Traffic Accident, RTA in Europe) result in some part from driver behavior along with one...

• Fatal Car Crash Takes 3 Teenagers

  Sandy Grinnell | August 15, 2007 8:47 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  A horrific car crash has taken the lives of three teenage girls ages 15, 17 and 18 years old, all of Orlando. Around 10:50 last night, the vehicle they were riding in crossed John Young Parkway and struck another vehilcle head on. The driver of the second vehicle was a 44 year-old man from Kissimmee. Two of the girls were thrown from the vehicle; the third victim died in the front seat even...

• Florida No-Fault Likely to Expire

  Bruce Gibson | August 15, 2007 8:40 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  Florida's No-Fault law will expire October 1st and it appears unlikely that Florida's Legislature will reach an agreement on preventing this. As a result, Florida's Chief Financial Officer, Alex Sink, is urging motorists in Florida to be sure they have enough insurance to protect themselves and their families if they are injured in an automobile collision.Under the present No-Fault law, the...

• Criminal Charges Filed in Big Dig Auto Accident

  Sandy Grinnell | August 09, 2007 11:45 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  The company that supplied the epoxy for anchors in the concrete ceiling panels for Boston's Big Dig tunnel was indicted on one count of involuntary manslaughter yesterday. The Massachusetts Attorney General, Martha Coakley, charged Powers Fasteners in the death of a 38 year-old woman resulting from an auto accident caused by the collapse of suspended ceiling panels back in July 2006. The highway...

• Orlando Streets Turn Deadly on August 7

  Sandy Grinnell | August 08, 2007 11:40 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  Yesrterday was a very busy day for Florida Highway Patrol as they handled three deadly car crashes. The first one happened on State Road 520 when a female driver was ejected from her vehicle after a crash. Then later in the morning a bicyclist was struck by a truck on OBT and Orange Camp Road close to Apopka. Not long after that a motorcycle driver was killed when he slid under a tour bus...

• $1.75 Million Awarded for Auto Accident Due to Cell Phone

  Sandy Grinnell | August 07, 2007 11:30 AM | 1 CommentOrlando, FL

  After almost 2 years, 26 year-old Ms. Tiffany Barrett will finally receive justice for the injuries she received due to a car crash. Just two months before they were set for trial, Ms. Barrett's attorney annouced that a settlement had been reached in the case against Philip DeBeard, who was a salesman for Rick Starr Lincolm Mercury and was on his cell phone at the time of the accident. Ms....

• I-35 Bridge Collapses in Minneapolis

  Sandy Grinnell | August 02, 2007 12:36 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  The I-35 bridge crossing the Mississippi River in downtown Minneapolis collapsed around 6:00 p.m. yesterday plunging at least 50 vehicles to the river below. Some vehicles landed in the water; others fell with the roadbed and landed upright on the surface of the sunken bridge or, like the school bus with 60 kids ages 4 - 13, were left stranded on broken sections of the bridge. I-35 is a major...

• $44.9 Million Verdict for Car Crash in Death and Injury Case

  Mike Damaso | July 30, 2007 10:22 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  It appears that justice was served last Thursday when a Jury in Polk County, Florida returned a verdict of nearly $45 million in a wrongful death and personal injury case. Last year, Morgan Bryant, 9, and Brittany Hooten, 8, were killed when the car they were riding in was struck practically head on by a large commercial truck. Morgan's mother, Carla, who was two months pregnant at the time of...

• America Safer as Truckers Will Not Be Driving Longer Hours

  Sandy Grinnell | July 25, 2007 8:54 AM | 1 CommentOrlando, FL

  The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia overturned a rule set in place by the Bush Administration that allowed truckers to work longer hours, which increased the number of fatigue related truck accidents. The new rule had increased the average number of driving hours from approximately 8.5 hours per day to 11 hours per day.A panel of three judges ruled that the Federal...

• Fatal Car Accident Closes I-4

  Sandy Grinnell | July 24, 2007 1:42 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  One person was killed and three more injured in an early morning car crash involving three vehicles on I-4. One of the vehicles left the highway, went thru a guardrail and landed on a power pole below at the intersection of Wymore and Rogers. After being ejected from the vehicles, one of the injured was airlifted to ORMC and the other two went to ORMC and Florida Hospital via ambulance. Power...