- Eddie Farah | February 29, 2008 11:24 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsNeither 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. His passenger 49-year-old Randy Grover was injured when the 1988 Chevrolet pickukp truck ran off Double Run Road around...
- Eddie Farah | February 28, 2008 11:26 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsThe 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. This happened in front of the Naval Air Station...
- Eddie Farah | February 28, 2008 12:37 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsPresident 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.Cameron was a two-year-old who was killed by his father in the driveway five years ago. 230 children...
- Eddie Farah | February 23, 2008 11:20 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsI-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. He lost control and the semi truck flipped in the middle of the interstate. Killed was his passenger, 44-year-old Laura...
- Eddie Farah | February 23, 2008 12:48 PM |
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MiscellaneousState 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. If you want an...
- Eddie Farah | February 21, 2008 11:28 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsOften 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. Vanderbilt University researchers say some of you aren't wearing seat belts because not all carmakers are making them...
- Eddie Farah | February 21, 2008 2:50 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsThis 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.This afternoon she was upgraded to serious condition which is an improvement.The good news is that...
- Eddie Farah | February 16, 2008 8:58 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsThis 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. Apparently the 14-month old child's car seat was not properly secured.The other child...
- Eddie Farah | February 15, 2008 12:42 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsDora 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.The driver was an 84-year old women, Lois Ponsel, who law enforcement says was not speeding....
- Eddie Farah | February 13, 2008 10:02 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsFor 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. The only things constant here will be...
- Eddie Farah | February 13, 2008 5:31 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsBack 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. Last January Abruscato was convicted by a jury of three counts of vehicular homicide. He could have been sentenced to 50 years in prison, but the...
- Eddie Farah | February 09, 2008 11:14 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsThe 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. He told the judge he finally got the message. In his latest offense, Homan's blood...
- Eddie Farah | February 09, 2008 10:19 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsCrossing 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. So it drove around the bus at the same time a man on a bicycle was crossing Beach. The driver could...
- Eddie Farah | February 07, 2008 11:47 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsSounds 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. In a minute, Williams was careening through St. Augustine traffic. She had a case...
- Eddie Farah | February 07, 2008 12:15 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsIt 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. Annette Robinson, 63 was driving a Corvette, following her husband home after a night out. Her 62-year-old husband was riding a motorcycle...
- Eddie Farah | February 02, 2008 9:37 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsWe'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. He lost control of his 1994 car, a Chevy Corvette and according to FHP hit a culvert, then two utility poles, overturned and...
- Eddie Farah | February 01, 2008 9:06 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsNot 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. He struck the door of Officer Scott Bell's patrol car causing the cruiser to spin around, hit a...
- Eddie Farah | February 01, 2008 12:17 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsThe 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. He got back into his vehicle and drove...