Automobile Accidents

• Bicyclist Hit, Killed By Two Autos

  Eddie Farah | March 08, 2008 9:55 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  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. Chantel Sloan, 17, reportedly didn't see Mattox. His bicycle had no lights and he was wearing dark...

• I-95 Auto Accident Involving Car, Bus

  Eddie Farah | March 07, 2008 12:59 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  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.The two vehicles were traveling southbound on I-95 just beyond International Golf Parkway.Four people were in the car. All were injured and taken to Flagler Hospital. There is no word on their condition.Everyone on the bus was okay except they couldn't get the...

• Bike Week Brings Death And Auto Accidents To Our Roads

  Eddie Farah | March 04, 2008 5:53 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  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. So far this week we have five deaths to report. In the first a man and a woman were killed in New Smyna Beach on state road 44 Sunday night....

• Pickup Truck Occupants Ejected

  Eddie Farah | February 29, 2008 11:24 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  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. His passenger 49-year-old Randy Grover was injured when the 1988 Chevrolet pickukp truck ran off Double Run Road around...

• Car Found May Be Hit-and-Run Vehicle

  Eddie Farah | February 28, 2008 11:26 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  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. This happened in front of the Naval Air Station...

• Keeping Kids Safe in Non-Traffic Auto Accidents

  Eddie Farah | February 28, 2008 12:37 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  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.Cameron was a two-year-old who was killed by his father in the driveway five years ago. 230 children...

• I-10 Westbound Reopened After Fatal Auto Accident

  Eddie Farah | February 23, 2008 11:20 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  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. He lost control and the semi truck flipped in the middle of the interstate. Killed was his passenger, 44-year-old Laura...

• Obese Are Not Wearing Seat Belts in Auto Accidents

  Eddie Farah | February 21, 2008 11:28 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  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. Vanderbilt University researchers say some of you aren't wearing seat belts because not all carmakers are making them...

• Baby Not Hurt In Single Car Auto Accident

  Eddie Farah | February 21, 2008 2:50 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  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.This afternoon she was upgraded to serious condition which is an improvement.The good news is that...

• Driver Hits School Bus Injures Her Two Children

  Eddie Farah | February 16, 2008 8:58 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  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. Apparently the 14-month old child's car seat was not properly secured.The other child...