Automobile Accidents

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

  Internal Administrator | April 06, 2008 10:50 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  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 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  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 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  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 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  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...

• Car Lodged Under Semitrailer

  Eddie Farah | March 29, 2008 1:06 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  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.This all happened early in the morning Friday, about 2:40 in the southbound lanes. ...

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

  Eddie Farah | March 26, 2008 8:30 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  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. charging negligence and battery."There has been an outrageous sequence of events," said the family's attorney, Eric Block.The incident...

• Freak Accident with Bus Kills City Worker

  Eddie Farah | March 26, 2008 1:16 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  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.Police report that the work crew appeared to be doing...

• Florida Man Arrested For Hitting Police Cruiser in Georgia

  Eddie Farah | March 25, 2008 9:47 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  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. He was reportedly acting erratically. He said he was being chased and he was a short while later when he was on I-95 after attracting...

• Legislature Looking At Safer Streets

  Eddie Farah | March 22, 2008 1:49 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  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. A seat belt violation proposal is back. It would allow law enforcement to pull over someone for not wearing their seat...

• Legislature Trying To Curtail Teen Auto Accidents

  Eddie Farah | March 21, 2008 11:33 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  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. Proposed Senate Bill 1266 and House Bill 357 would make it illegal to talk on the phone while driving in Florida. That's already the...