- Eddie Farah | July 30, 2007 11:41 PM |
Category:
Automobile Accidents23-year -old Marcus Anton Milton was seen by a Sheriff's officer just a few moments before he crashed.The officer watched him speed by about 40 miles over the speed limit, then run a red light. When the officer caught up with him on Boulevard Street near west 12th Street a few minutes later, he saw the Ford had flipped off the road and overturned in a vacant lot.Milton died at the scene. His...
- Eddie Farah | July 28, 2007 4:59 PM |
Category:
Automobile AccidentsChiffon Powell was driving home with friends around 4 a.m. Friday when she looked up and saw flashing lights.That's what she remembers seeing before her car was struck and she lost control of the vehicle, hitting the median wall of I-10 westbound at Stockton Street. 21-year-old Powell was struck by a Jacksonville Sheriff's Office police cruiser in pursuit of a speeding car. The speeder got away...
- Eddie Farah | July 26, 2007 3:57 PM |
Category:
Automobile AccidentsJulian Felipe of Hialeah, Florida, was just 17-years-old when the Ford Aerostar van he was riding in rolled over leaving him paralyzed.Felipe and his family were in Sarasota on a family vacation in 2002 when a tire blew out causing the van to flip. Julian was injured when the roof caved in breaking his neck.On trial in Fort Lauderdale, the jury decided that Ford knew the tendancy for the van to...
- Eddie Farah | July 25, 2007 8:17 AM |
Category:
Automobile AccidentsIt took police only a few hours, but a man accused of killing a motorcyclist in a Northside hit-and-run has been arrested.21-year old Jimmie Turner was, according to police, driving his pickup truck down Basiden Road Monday night. According to the official report, he veered into the oncoming lane and hit 56-year old Charles Sweezer and then took off. Sweezer was taken to the hospital but did not...
- Eddie Farah | July 24, 2007 11:43 PM |
Category:
Defective & Dangerous ProductsJuly is the month for barbeques and hotdogs. It's perhaps the worst month for a company to have a suspected botulism outbreak in its hot dog chili sauce.Now the FDA is asking consumers to throw away more than 90 different products from Castleberry Foods of Augusta, Georgia, from chili sauce to dog food. Botulism poisoning is serious and can be fatal. So far two people in Texas and two in...
- Eddie Farah | July 20, 2007 4:53 PM |
Category:
Automobile AccidentsIt's happened again. Proving again that children and SUVs are a dangerous combination.A woman driving to work near Savannah pulled her Isuzu Ascension out of the driveway when her 20-month old daughter, Kyla Grimes ran out of the house and toward the car.39-year old Kim Smith says she felt a bump. After pulling out of the driveway she saw the little girl in her rear-view mirror. She had...
- Eddie Farah | July 19, 2007 5:06 PM |
Category:
Automobile AccidentsWhy would a driver travel north in the southbound lanes of I-95?It happened just before midnight Wednesday according to the Florida Highway Patrol.The northbound car crashed into an SUV. Both car's drivers were killed instantly.47-year old Richard Welch of Palm Coast was heading north driving the wrong way when he struck the Chevrolet Suburban head-on.49-year old Mary Jordan of Port Salerno was...
- Eddie Farah | July 18, 2007 11:57 PM |
Category:
Automobile AccidentsDuring the 2002 Florida legislature, the state's move-over laws were passed.They require motorists to move over or slow down when they see an emergency or law enforcement vehicle on the side of the road. If possible, a motorist is suppose to vacate the lane closest to the emergency vehicle.Makes sense. It might have avoided an officer being hit Tuesday.The officer was just trying to move a...
- Eddie Farah | July 17, 2007 11:47 PM |
Category:
Automobile AccidentsThe two men were leaving the Jacksonville International airport just after 11 a.m. on Tuesday. They were driving a bread delivery truck. It should have been a normal day.Instead it was their last. 42-year old Paul Thompson was a passenger in the delivery truck driven by 22-year old Kennard Montford.As the two men travelled southbound, just north of Duval Road, the truck began drifting off the...
- Eddie Farah | July 12, 2007 11:01 PM |
Category:
Automobile AccidentsNot only is it dangerous and potentially deadly to leave children in a hot car, but it's also illegal.As temperatures rise into the 90's, it's time to remember that state law makes it illegal to leave a child alone in a hot car for longer than 15 minutes.A car can quickly become as hot as an oven.From heat cramps to heat stroke can take very few minutes. A car can heat up to 110 degrees within...
- Eddie Farah | July 11, 2007 10:44 PM |
Category:
Automobile AccidentsA 25-year old Jacksonville driver turned himself into police last week.The April hit-and-run deaths of a Jacksonville couple must have weighed heavily on him.Anthony Clayton Bell is accused of killing the couple, 44-year old Paula Herrington and 56-year old Harry Herrington.They were killed after Bell allegedly hit their car on I-295 and kept on going. He crashed two other times before police...
- Eddie Farah | July 10, 2007 10:32 PM |
Category:
MiscellaneousIt is a scene that is not often seen.A dog bites a toddler in the face. The child is rushed to the hospital and needs extensive reconstructivesurgery. Usually the dog is put to sleep. Not this time. This time the dog, a 100 lb. bull mastiff, will be returned to his St. Johns County family.It's an unusual turn of events, to say the least.Law enforcement reports that last Friday, the 2-year-old...
- Eddie Farah | July 09, 2007 10:12 PM |
Category:
Automobile AccidentsA 32-year old woman is recovering after her legs were severed by an on-coming train.It appears she didn't hear the train as she was listening to music on her i-Pod. Cheryl Ann Risse is expected to recover.She reportedly jogged across the tracks on her way to a jogging trail at a nearby park.The train engineer didn't know he had struck Risse until he returned along the same tracks minutes later,...
- Eddie Farah | July 07, 2007 11:49 PM |
Category:
MiscellaneousJuly is the most likely month to have a boating accident. And Jacksonville is named as among the Top Ten Florida counties for boating accidents, helping put the state in second place nationally according to a new report. All of this information comes from a growing concern about hazards on the water in Florida during this time of year.Only California had more boating accidents during the summer...
- Eddie Farah | July 05, 2007 11:19 PM |
Category:
Medical MalpracticeThomas and Jessica Hugaboom say they just didn't want to go to trial.Instead, the couple has settled their 7-month old son's death with the Jacksonville Naval Hospital for $900,000.The court records show the Hubagooms visited the hospital's emergency room three times with their infant son, Michael, while Thomas was stationed at the Jacksonville Naval Air Station.While the baby's condition...
- Eddie Farah | July 03, 2007 10:54 PM |
Category:
Automobile AccidentsThe search is on for a hit-and-run driver that killed a 21-year old man early Sunday morning on Beach Boulevard.The accident happened about 3 a.m. and Tyler Beggs was found on Beach near Desalvo Road in the westbound lane.Law enforcement says Beggs was lying in the road before being struck. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Begg's father, Michael believes his youngest son was drunk that night...
- Eddie Farah | July 02, 2007 8:01 AM |
Category:
Defective & Dangerous ProductsJohn "Chuck" Mikell, says he had no idea what substance he was handling at a former Energizer battery plant in Alachua County. But now the husband and father of four has a very good idea what's caused his stage four kidney cancer-- cadmium and nickel used to make the rechargable batteries. Mikell, 50, says he's been given a death sentence because of work he did at the plant. The 50 year old is...