Automobile Accidents

• What Car Insurance Does Florida Require? Is it Enough?

  Patricia Doherty | April 23, 2008 12:17 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  Did you know that in Florida, automobile owners are not required to carry bodily injury liability coverage? The only insurance that Florida requires is property damage and, effective January 1,...

• Traffic Crash With School Bus in Oviedo

  Mike Damaso | April 21, 2008 10:49 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  A traffic crash in Oviedo SeminoleCounty involving a school bus and a pick up truck was reported at approximately 6 30 this morning The crash occurred at the intersection of Lake Miils Road and...

• Speed Limit May Not Have Been Posted In Deadly I-4 Crash

  Diego Madrigal | April 15, 2008 9:25 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  All may not be as it appears in a deadly car crash I blogged about a few weeks ago. A recent comment on my post by a man claiming to be the father of the driver states that there was no speed limit...

• Allstate Barred From Writing New Florida Policies

  Ed Normand | April 06, 2008 7:45 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  A Florida Appellate Court ruled Friday that the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation rightfully suspended Allstate from writing new Florida policies because it failed to obey a subpoena regarding...

• Auto Truck Crash Stops 408 Traffic

  Patricia Doherty | April 04, 2008 4:57 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  A tractor trailer jack-knifed on Rt. 408 in Orlando and crashed into at least two cars. The truck vs automobile accident closed down the westbound lane of travel for hours causign traffic to be...

• Hulkster Sued For Son's Car Crash

  Ed Normand | March 26, 2008 9:35 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  The Hulkster, Terry Bollea, and his wife, Linda, were recently sued for injuries caused by their 17-year-old son Nick Bollea in a recent auto accident. Nick Bollea was driving and crashed into a tree in Clearwater, Florida. The passenger in the car was severely injured, is permanently disabled, and will require extensive medical care for the rest of his life. Some newspapers are claiming...

• Sad Day for Contruction Workers' Family

  Sandy Grinnell | March 26, 2008 6:43 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  A 49 year-old man and his 24 year-old son were both killed in the same accident on Florida's Turnpike yesterday morning. The Inverness residents were part of a construction crew wroking on the guardrails just north of the US 301 exit. It was reported that a car collided with the back of a semi trailer and then flew over the guard rail. The two men were repairing the back side of the rail and...

• Fraudulent Accident Ring-leader Admits Guilt

  Sandy Grinnell | March 23, 2008 5:15 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  A man from the Miami-Dade area was convicted and another was arrested this week in connection with PIP fraud perpetrated on insurance companies in South Florida resulting from fake automobile accidents. Alex Sink, Florida's Chief Financial Officer, said this was the fourth and final arrest made by the Florida Division of Insurance Fraud's (DIF) investigation into an insurance fraud ring based...

• 1 Dead, 2 Injured in Single Car Crash

  Mike Damaso | March 19, 2008 11:51 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  The Orlando Sentinel reported on a crash occurring early Sunday morning in East Orange County. Around 2:30 a.m., a woman was driving a '98 Ford Mustang south on West Christmas Road near Fort Christmas when she failed to negotiate a curve and struck a concrete culvert on the east shoulder. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Two passengers were ejected and suffered injuries, one minor and...

• Motorcyclist Loses Life, Wife Has Critical Injuries

  Sandy Grinnell | March 18, 2008 9:15 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  A 60 year-old motorcycle driver crashed his bike into the back of a car as it was turning into a driveway on Sunday near Middleburg Florida. The motorcylce accident threw his wife and him from the bike. They were taken to the Shands hospital in Jacksonville by helicopter where the driver died, but the condition of his wife was not reported. Neither had been wearing a helmet.While the...