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Discussion of personal injury law and legal issues, with Florida focus.
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Last Entry: January 13, 2010 at 11:16:39

Bicyclist Hit, Killed By Two Autos

Posted on March 08, 2008
You have to wonder what he was thinking. A 42-year old man ridiing a bicycle in the dark. It was raining. Thomas Mattox, 42, was from St. Augustine but for some reason he was riding his bicycle about 10 pm on U.S. 17 in Putnam County. Mattox was crossing the road when he was hit by the first car...

I-95 Auto Accident Involving Car, Bus

Posted on March 07, 2008
There was no match between a tour bus with 60 people on board and a car. The two tangled on Interstate 95 this afternoon. The bus won.

Bike Week Brings Death And Auto Accidents To Our Roads

Posted on March 04, 2008
It happens every year and every year we report that more people have died on our local roads. Bike Week in Daytona brings motorcyclists from around the country. Some are wearing helmets, many are not since it is not required for adults in Florida to do so...

Two Gas Stations Fined Half Million for Shorting Customers

Posted on March 01, 2008
You could say that two Kingsland truck stops were busted this month. Two weeks after state inspectors found that the pumps were shorting customers in the amount of gasoline they pumped, the fuels are now flowing after the owner agreed to pay a $500,000 fine...

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Pickup Truck Occupants Ejected

Posted on February 29, 2008
Neither man was wearing a seat belt. So when the pickup truck they were driving in Columbia County drove off the road, one man was killed and a second man was in critical condition Thursday evening. 53-year-old Ronald Turner was killed according to the Florida Highway Pastrol...

Car Found May Be Hit-and-Run Vehicle

Posted on February 28, 2008
The Florida Highway Patrol says it has found a blue Mustang that may have caused a fatal crash Monday. Parts of Roosevelt Boulevard were shut down for hours and a retired Jacksonville police detective was killed. Three others were hurt when an Acura belong to 20-year-old Matthew Borg crossed the median at Roosevelt Boulevard then went airborne...

Keeping Kids Safe in Non-Traffic Auto Accidents

Posted on February 28, 2008
President Bush today signed the Cameron Gulbransen Kids Transportation Safety Act. It attempts to prevent, albeit too slowly, many of the accidents we report about here that happen in a family's driveway - that is accidents where a child is run over because a relative can't see around their SUV...

I-10 Westbound Reopened After Fatal Auto Accident

Posted on February 23, 2008
I-10 has reopened in the westbound direction after a fatal accident involving a semi truck Saturday morning closed two lanes. It appears the rain may have been the cause. A semi being driver by 47-year old Steven Stoff began moving counter clockwise as he was changing lanes...

State Farm Won't Write New Policies

Posted on February 23, 2008
State Farm Insurance is Florida's largest private insurer writing policies to cover homeowners in case of loss. State Farm has decided to stop writing policies in Florida. Don't expect that to hurt the 1 million currently with a homeowner's policy covered by State Farm, but the state run insurer of last resort, Citizens Property Insurance will be expected to pick up the slack...

Obese Are Not Wearing Seat Belts in Auto Accidents

Posted on February 21, 2008
Often we write here about a person's failure to wear a seat belt as being a contributing factor to injury. It's tough to figure out why people wouldn't wear a seat belt knowing your chance of surviving an auto accident is greatly increased. A new study sheds some light on that...

Baby Not Hurt In Single Car Auto Accident

Posted on February 21, 2008
This mother had the good sense to buckle her son into his car seat--before she got into a single car accident this morning. No word on what caused the accident on Julington Creek Road around 9:15. For some reason the mother drove her Oldsmobile into a ditch and sustained life-threatening injuries...

Driver Hits School Bus Injures Her Two Children

Posted on February 16, 2008
This is an auto accident that could have had a very different outcome. A woman driving a small SUV ran a stop sign early Thursday morning and hit a school bus. It happened in northwest Jacksonville as the bus was traveling to school. The driver was injured as was one of her two young children in the backseat...

Elderly Woman Walking Hit By Elderly Driver

Posted on February 15, 2008
Dora Krone was either 91 or 101 depending on whom you listen to. But her friends say she liked to be active and frequently walked for exercise, even though she used a walker. Dora was doing just that Wednesday about 5 p.m. when she was hit be a car at the intersection of North Main and Sycamore Street...

State Road 9A- What You Need To Know

Posted on February 13, 2008
For the next several months, nothing will be the same on the 9A project that's underway. This $831 million project will be great when it's completed this fall, all part of the I-295 beltway around the city, but until then you might want to take notes, or at least check a variety of web sites if you are going to travel east or west on or off 9A anytime soon...

Man Gets 30 Years in Prison for Auto Accident

Posted on February 13, 2008
Back in November 2006, Edward Abruscato ran a stop sign. That caused a chain reaction of vehicles that killed two teenage girls and their father and injured four others. Today a Clay County judge sentenced Abruscato to the next thirty years in prison...

Eight DUIs No Auto Accidents Gets Man Four Years Prison

Posted on February 09, 2008
The judge told the man he was lucky. When 48-year-old John Craig Homans of Brunswick Georgia pleaded no contest to DUI and driving with a suspended license, Judge Wendy Berger told him "You're lucky you haven't killed yourself or somebody else". Homans was sentenced to four years in prison for his eight DUI offense...

Auto Hits Man on Bike Crossing Beach Boulevard

Posted on February 09, 2008
Crossing Beach Boulevard can be tricky on foot and especially difficult on a bicycle. That's what happened to an unfortunate bike rider Friday night when he tried to cross Beach in front of a bus. A vehicle heading west was trying to drive around a bus in front of it that was slowing or stopping...

Woman Straps Beer Into Seatbelt, Baby Is Not

Posted on February 07, 2008
Sounds like this driver had her priorities straight. 20-year-old Amber Tedrick jumped in the back seat to go to a nearby grocery store to get food for a Super Bowl party. The driver, Tina Darlene Williams, 46, was an acquaintance. Tedrick buckled in her 16 month old since she didn't have a car seat in this car...

Motorcyclist Hit and Killed by Wife in Auto Accident

Posted on February 07, 2008
It only takes a moment of distraction to take a life. We report here countless times about people who might have been looking for a CD, or answering a cell phone. Their life is over, or someone they love. That's what happened to a Green Cove Springs couple...

Single Car Auto Accident Kills One

Posted on February 02, 2008
We've mentioned here a few times that drinking and driving don't mix. You don't need much more proof than the story of this 37-year-old who died behind the wheel after police say he was drinking. Scott Stanley Mortgomery and a friend were driving north on Lem Turned Road...

Toddler Hurt in Auto Accident on I-95, Driver Flees

Posted on February 01, 2008
The two year old was strapped into his car seat but ended up hospitalized Thursday when a semi truck changed lanes into the path of the car in which he was riding. It happened on I-95 in St. Johns County near Flagler County. Amazingly the semi driver pulled over to the emergency lane, looked out of the cab to see the car overturned and the baby ejected...

Officer Killed by Drunk Driver Auto Accident

Posted on February 01, 2008
Not that there was much doubt about the cause of the auto accident, but a man who drove into a car driven by a Jacksonville police officer last October has been charged with DUI manslaughter. 57-year old Joseph May was driving a van near New Berlin Road and Heckscher Drive around 11:30 October 13th...

Auto Accident on Ocala Runway Hits Home

Posted on January 30, 2008
He was laid to rest today. 19-year old Jacob Casey was a football player for Jacksonville University but his early years were in Ocala. That's where he died last Saturday on a joy ride with four other young men all under the age of 20.

DUI Woman Could Get 25 Years for Auto Accident

Posted on January 26, 2008
Lisa Green appeared before a judge Thursday morning facing two counts of DUI causing serious bodily injury and one count of DUI manslaughter. Green, 43, allegedly got drunk and drove her Mitsubishi off the road at I-95 and Baymeadows just days before Thanksgiving...

JU Freshman Among Five Killed In Ocala Auto Crash

Posted on January 26, 2008
A local student at Jacksonville University is among the five teenage boys killed in an Ocala runway crash in an exclusive "fly-in" community. Jacksonville University football player Jacob Casey was a freshman and 19 years old. For some reason he and four of his friends ranging in age from 18 to 20, piled inito a $75,000 BMW in the exclusive Ocala community known as Jumbolair Aviation Estates...

Allstate On The Hot Seat

Posted on January 24, 2008
Allstate Insurance executives are expected to be called by Tallahassee investigators early next month to talk about how the insurance giant makes rates and pays claims. It's part of the state's investigation into how Big Insurance does business in Florida...

Everyone At Fault in Fire Engine Accident

Posted on January 24, 2008
It is a question of being in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong drivers involved. Two weeks ago, a truck and a fire engine collided at an intersection. Four firefighters were injured. Luckily no one was killed. Now after an investigation by the FHP, no charges will be filed because everyone was at fault.

73-Year-Old SUV Passenger Killed When Car Collides With School Bus

Posted on January 19, 2008
Luckily no children were hurt on a school bus when it collided with an SUV on Thursday. But the passenger in the SUV was killed. 73-year-old John Robert Ryder of Zephyrhills, Florida was riding with driver, 70-year-old Carole Jean Ryder in Yulee Thursday afternoon...

MySpace Teens in Trouble for Felony Child Pornography

Posted on January 17, 2008
A young teen poses nude and a friend put the image on their MySpace page. It probably happens more often than us parents would like to think. Afterall social networking is an easy way to stay connected to people and avoid the unpleasantries of face to face encounters...

Driver Convicted of Killing Three in Head-On Crash

Posted on January 17, 2008
It was a simple act of running a stop sign on county road 215 in Middleburg. But that split second mistake took three lives and on Tuesday it sent the driver to prison, possibly for the rest of his life. Edward Abruscato, 40 was found guilty by a Clay County jury...

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