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Discussion of personal injury law and legal issues, with Florida focus.
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Head-On With Bi-Rig Kills Driver

Posted on May 01, 2008
No one knows why 21-year-old James Rowland drifted his pickup trust into an oncoming lane just after midnight early Thursday morning. The Florida Highway Patrol reports that Rowland was driving east on Normandy Boulevard in Jacksonville when he collided head on with a tractor-trailer...

Taser Gun Death Lawsuit Filed

Posted on May 01, 2008
We've had a rash of them lately. Law enforcement is fast to turn to Taser Guns or stun guns. The problem is the jolt delivers around 50,000 volts that penetrates the skin and shocks the heart and has been known to sometimes turn fatal. That is what's alleged to have happened to 56-year-old Emily Delafield...

Hit-And-Run Driver Who Killed Blind Athlete Gets 5 Years

Posted on April 30, 2008
Often times a hit-and-run driver is never apprehended. They get away knowing they can get away with it. That was not the case with the driver who hit Darryl Green. Darryl Green was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Last June, the blind athlete from Philadelphia was trying to cross U...

Police Pursue Suspects With Two Kids In Car

Posted on April 25, 2008
High speed chases usually end badly. When law enforcement tries to apprehend a suspect through residential neighborhoods, innocent bystanders are frequently the victims. By NHTSA's estimates three people a week are killed in U.S. police pursuits. And when you consider that the pursuit is usually to recover a stolen car, there is no comparison to a life lost...

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14 Year Old Tobacco Lawsuit Settled in Florida

Posted on April 18, 2008
Thousands of Florida smokers or their surviving family members will be eligible to share in a $600 million judgment against tobacco manufacturers ending more than a dozen years of litigation. A $145 billion damage award was originally created following litigation by Miami Beach pediatrician Howard Engle who died from emphysema...

Five Killed in North Florida Auto Wrecks Over 12 Hours

Posted on April 18, 2008
North Florida roads saw four separate wrecks early Friday that took five lives and injured several others. The worst auto accident occurred in Putnam County. The Florida Highway Patrol reports that a 2004 Cadillac was driving down Bardin Road when the car went off the road and struck a tree then caught fire...

Yamaha Rhino- A Danger Off the Road

Posted on April 16, 2008
More trouble for Yamaha, the maker of the Rhino All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) blamed for serious injuries. In March, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) issued a voluntary recall of 2008 Rhino Side-by-Side vehicles because of a risk of brake failure that affects about 7,800 vehicles...

Mexican Big-Rigs On U.S. Roads

Posted on April 14, 2008
Under NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, a tribunal ruled in 2001 that the U.S. was in violation by limiting access to U.S. highways by Mexican trucks. Under terms of NAFTA, those big rigs were supposed to be allowed on roads along the border with the U...

Hybrid Cars Can Hurt the Blind

Posted on April 12, 2008
People who rely on sound to make their way through life can usually rely on the sound of a motor to gauge the safety of a street. But the National Federation of the Blind fear that the nearly silent hybrids may be too quiet for the blind. Rep...

14-Year-Old Dies in Stolen Car Accident

Posted on April 12, 2008
The driver of an allegedly stolen car that crashed into a house Saturday was just a 14-year-old middle schooler. It happened across from Douglas Anderson School of the Arts in the St. Nicholas area of Jacksonville. It was chaos at the scene. The car could not be easily backed out because part of the house collapsed...

20 Most Dangerous Autos

Posted on April 12, 2008
No doubt sometime in your future you might consider buying a car. Whether new or used there is important information to help make you an informed consumer and therefore safer on the roads. Forbes.com has put together a compilation of the 20 Most Dangerous Vehicles on the road by considering side-impact protection, stability control and rollover risk...

Skater Hit By A Car

Posted on April 07, 2008
The moves of young people twisting and turning on skateboards, riding ramps and rails has become somewhat of an art form. But for one skater, his art turned life threatening last Sunday night when he was accidentally hit by a car near Fort Caroline Park...

Georgia Supreme Court Upholds $13 Million in Ford Crash Case

Posted on April 06, 2008
Nine years ago a Clarke County, Georgia woman riding in a 1985 Ford Mercury Grand Marquis, was rear ended by another car. When the Toyota slammed into her vehicle, it burst into flames. Anne Marie Gibson died immediately. After the family filed a lawsuit, it was revealed that bolts from the trailer hitch on Gibson's vehicle gouged into the rear-mounted gas tank...

Police Look For Hit-And-Run Driver At The Beach

Posted on April 05, 2008
Friday night, two men were crossing the street in the rain in Jacksonville Beach. Out of nowhere a white car pulled out and hit one of them. Instead of calling for help, one of the men in the street says the driver got out of the car, took a look at the man he hit, then got back into the vehicle and drove away...

Jacksonville Woman Ejected In Single-Car Crash

Posted on April 04, 2008
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration about 5,500 lives could be saved every year by increasing seat belt use to 90 percent. But at the best estimates, 20 percent of adults choose not to wear seat belts and as a direct result of that decision, every hour someone dies in the U...

Jacksonville Beach Access Denied After Boy Is Run Over

Posted on April 04, 2008
Vehicle access to Huguenot Memorial Park in Duval County, Florida has been restricted after a five-year-old boy was run over by a truck in March. The boy was lounging in the sand and the driver said he didn't see him. The boy was taken to the hospital and treated for a hip injury...

Car Lodged Under Semitrailer

Posted on March 29, 2008
Traffic on Interstate 95 just south of Jacksonville had to come to a crawl as the road was closed when a car drove underneath a semitrailer. The Florida Highway Patrol says that 41-year-old Robert Barker drove his Honda into a semi and continued driving until the front of his vehicle went under the truck's trailer...

Car Lodged Under Semitrailer

Posted on March 28, 2008
Traffic on Interstate 95 just south of Jacksonville had to come to a crawl as the road was closed when a car drove underneath a semitrailer.The Florida Highway Patrol says that 41-year-old Robert Barker drove his Honda into a semi and continued driving until the front of his vehicle went under the truck's trailer...

9-Year-Old's Family Sues After Autistic Son Injured on School Bus

Posted on March 27, 2008
It's tough to argue with the picture of the bruises. The parents of a 9-year old boy who is autistic and blind say that attendants on a First Student school bus abused their child and left marks on him. They are suing the bus attendants and First Student Inc...

Freak Accident with Bus Kills City Worker

Posted on March 26, 2008
The likelihood of this happening is very slim. But one man who worked as a traffic engineer was in a bucket working on a traffic light. The driver of a Jacksonville Transportation Authority bus either didn't see the flag man or ignored him and struck the truck knocking the man 52-year old Cesar Solomon out of the bucket to fall to his death...

Florida Man Arrested For Hitting Police Cruiser in Georgia

Posted on March 26, 2008
A Florida man is under arrest after ending a police pursuit by crashing his vehicle into a Georgia State Patrol deputy's car. Sunday about 1 in the afternoon, Theodore Thomas Wagner approached the security guard at the Bayer Corporation in Kingsland, Georgia...

9-Year-Old's Family Sues After Autistic Son Injured on School Bus

Posted on March 26, 2008
It's tough to argue with the picture of the bruises.The parents of a 9-year old boy who is autistic and blind say that attendants on a First Student school bus abused their child and left marks on him. They are suing the bus attendants and First Student Inc...

Legislature Looking At Safer Streets

Posted on March 22, 2008
More legislative action is proposed out of Tallahassee this session that might help keeps roads safer. One of the more innovative involves placing red-light cameras that would take a driver's image when they are caught running a red light. A violation could result in a fine...

Legislature Trying To Curtail Teen Auto Accidents

Posted on March 21, 2008
Tallahassee lawmakers are trying to make driving safer for all of us by cracking down on left lane hogs. You've seen them going slow in the left passing lane while talking on their cell phone oblivious to lights. Often they aren't even wearing their seat belt...

First Coast Teens Learn Lessons of Drinking & Driving

Posted on March 20, 2008
The attendance was double this year, a sure sign that this teenage education program has hit a nerve. It's called a STUD Rally - Stop Teen Underage Drinking and it looked more like a party at the Morocco Shrine Auditorium Thursday. High schoolers packed the place listening to DJs from 93...

Woman Sues Naval Hospital For Amputation

Posted on March 17, 2008
June McDowell was supposed to be going in for knee replacement surgery. Instead something went terribly wrong during her 2005 surgery at the Naval Hospital Jacksonville. Now McDowell is suing. McDowell told Channel 4 the last two years have been a nightmare...

Operation Safe Ride Cracks Down on Spring Break Auto Accidents

Posted on March 15, 2008
If you are thinking about speeding anytime this weekend, forget about it. That's because the Florida Highway Patrol will be monitoring you from aircraft, with lasers, radar and marked and unmarked cars on the Interstates, the Florida Turnpike and major and minor roads...

SUV Roof Crushes Kill Motorists

Posted on March 13, 2008
In about 35 percent of auto accidents, death occurs where there is a rollover. In a SUV the death rate jumps to 59 percent. The key to surviving the crash, if you are not ejected, is the strength of the vehicle's roof. Right now the federal government is considering increasing roof strength, something that hasn't been done in passengers cars since 1974...

Jacksonville Roads Get Good Marks

Posted on March 12, 2008
While cracked roads and potholes have been causing motorists to shell out about $400 extra in wear and tear on their cars, a national study says that Jacksonville's roads rank as "good" when compared to the nation. 9 percent are "mediocre" and 4 percent of our roads are rated as poor...

Atlantic Blvd. Auto Accident Kills One

Posted on March 09, 2008
There is nothing more frightening that thinking that a drunk person may be behind the wheel of the car next to you. Several motorists were frightened Sunday when a pickup truck truck speeded down Atlantic Avenue then lost control and flew into the air...

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