Personal Injury Law

Highway Saftey Data and Daylight Savings - Turn your clocks ahead this weekend

By Brian F. LaBovick, Esq.

It's that time of year again.  Daylight Saving Time begins this Sunday at 2 a.m. and ends on November 2. In case you forgot, Daylight Savings is always the second Sunday of March.

In the Fall, we Spring back each year at 2 a.m. on the first Sunday of November. In the month of November, move your clocks back one hour at the resumption of Standard Time.

We uncovered some interesting statistics for Roadway crashes in Florida from the Florida Department of Motor Vehicle Safety Administration. According to published reports, there was a significant spike in crashes in the month of March 2006. There were 24,066 crashes in the month of March, an increase of nearly 3,000 crashes from the month of February.  The number of fatal crashes also increased in March to 308 an increase from February's fatal crashes which were 221. It is important to note that in the month of November, the number of crashes went down from the previous month.  In November 2006 there were 20,984 crashes in Florida, which is much less than the month prior, which was 21,306 total crashes.  Fatal crashes in Florida also went down in November to 240 fatalities, down from 268 fatalities in October. 

We share this information with our readers to hopefully drive home the message for drivers to be safe on the highway, especially in the beginning of Daylight Savings Time, which is the month of March. In 2006, there were 3,097 total fatal accidents in Florida, March had the highest number of fatalities with 308 deaths.

At LaBovick & LaBovick, our goal is to help save lives by promoting and sharing safety information.  If we can help save a life or several lives on the highway, we feel that our time sharing this information has been well spent.

Click here to read more on the Florida Highway Motor Vehicle Safety Administration on crash statistics and highway data.
 

Full post as published by LaBovick Injury Law Blog on March 06, 2008 (boomark / email).