Automobile Accidents

• Woman Straps Beer Into Seatbelt, Baby Is Not

  Eddie Farah | February 07, 2008 11:47 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Sounds 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...

• Motorcyclist Hit and Killed by Wife in Auto Accident

  Eddie Farah | February 07, 2008 12:15 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  It 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...

• Single Car Auto Accident Kills One

  Eddie Farah | February 02, 2008 9:37 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  We'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...

• Officer Killed by Drunk Driver Auto Accident

  Eddie Farah | February 01, 2008 9:06 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Not 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...

• Toddler Hurt in Auto Accident on I-95, Driver Flees

  Eddie Farah | February 01, 2008 12:17 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  The 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...

• Auto Accident on Ocala Runway Hits Home

  Eddie Farah | January 30, 2008 11:09 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  He was laid to rest today.19-year old Jacob Casey was a football player for Jacksonville University but his early years were in Ocala.That's where he died last Saturday on a joy ride with four other young men all under the age of 20. The five young men ages 18-20 were piled into a 2008 BMW and traveling at a high rate of speed on an Ocala "fly-in" community Jumbolair Aviation Estates. That...

• DUI Woman Could Get 25 Years for Auto Accident

  Eddie Farah | January 26, 2008 11:30 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Lisa Green appeared before a judge Thursday morning facing two counts of DUI causing serious bodily injury and one count of DUI manslaughter.Green, 43, allegedly got drunk and drove her Mitsubishi off the road at I-95 and Baymeadows just days before Thanksgiving. Three men were working surveying in the area and Green plowed into Mike McAndrews killing him. The other two men were hospitalized...

• JU Freshman Among Five Killed In Ocala Auto Crash

  Eddie Farah | January 26, 2008 8:51 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  A local student at Jacksonville University is among the five teenage boys killed in an Ocala runway crash in an exclusive "fly-in" community.Jacksonville University football player Jacob Casey was a freshman and 19 years old. For some reason he and four of his friends ranging in age from 18 to 20, piled inito a $75,000 BMW in the exclusive Ocala community known as Jumbolair Aviation Estates....

• Allstate On The Hot Seat

  Eddie Farah | January 24, 2008 10:29 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Allstate Insurance executives are expected to be called by Tallahassee investigators early next month to talk about how the insurance giant makes rates and pays claims. It's part of the state's investigation into how Big Insurance does business in Florida. The state is also trying to get the play book on how Allstate does business. Known as the McKinsey documents, named after a consulting firm...

• Everyone At Fault in Fire Engine Accident

  Eddie Farah | January 24, 2008 7:26 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  It is a question of being in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong drivers involved.Two weeks ago, a truck and a fire engine collided at an intersection. Four firefighters were injured. Luckily no one was killed.Now after an investigation by the FHP, no charges will be filed because everyone was at fault.Engine 51 had its lights on and was speeding to a trailer park fire. The truck...