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

  Eddie Farah | April 30, 2008 12:28 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  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...

• Police Pursue Suspects With Two Kids In Car

  Eddie Farah | April 25, 2008 5:10 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  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...

• 14 Year Old Tobacco Lawsuit Settled in Florida

  Eddie Farah | April 18, 2008 2:59 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Wrongful Death

  Thousands ofFlorida smokers or their surviving family memberswill be eligible to share in a 600 million judgment against tobacco manufacturers ending more than a dozen years of litigation A 145...

• Five Killed in North Florida Auto Wrecks Over 12 Hours

  Eddie Farah | April 18, 2008 2:32 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  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...

• Yamaha Rhino- A Danger Off the Road

  Eddie Farah | April 16, 2008 12:36 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Motorcycle Accidents

  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...

• Mexican Big-Rigs On U.S. Roads

  Eddie Farah | April 14, 2008 4:43 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents

  Under NAFTA the North American Free Trade Agreement a tribunal ruled in 2001 that the U S was in violationby limiting access to U S highways by Mexican trucks Under terms of NAFTA those big...

• Hybrid Cars Can Hurt the Blind

  Eddie Farah | April 12, 2008 8:45 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  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...

• 14-Year-Old Dies in Stolen Car Accident

  Eddie Farah | April 12, 2008 8:07 PM | 4 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  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...

• 20 Most Dangerous Autos

  Eddie Farah | April 12, 2008 2:34 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  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....

• Skater Hit By A Car

  Eddie Farah | April 07, 2008 4:21 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  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...

• Georgia Supreme Court Upholds $13 Million in Ford Crash Case

  Internal Administrator | April 06, 2008 10:50 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  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...

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

  Eddie Farah | April 05, 2008 9:38 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  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...

• Jacksonville Woman Ejected In Single-Car Crash

  Eddie Farah | April 04, 2008 2:57 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  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...

• Jacksonville Beach Access Denied After Boy Is Run Over

  Eddie Farah | April 04, 2008 12:16 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  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...