Automobile Accidents

• 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...

• Elderly Woman Walking Hit By Elderly Driver

  Eddie Farah | February 15, 2008 12:42 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Dora 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....

• State Road 9A- What You Need To Know

  Eddie Farah | February 13, 2008 10:02 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  For 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...

• Man Gets 30 Years in Prison for Auto Accident

  Eddie Farah | February 13, 2008 5:31 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Back 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...

• Eight DUIs No Auto Accidents Gets Man Four Years Prison

  Eddie Farah | February 09, 2008 11:14 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  The 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...

• Auto Hits Man on Bike Crossing Beach Boulevard

  Eddie Farah | February 09, 2008 10:19 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Crossing 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...