Automobile Accidents

• SUV Rollover Throws Eight from Vehicle Kills One

  Eddie Farah | November 23, 2007 11:04 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  It was 3:30 in the morning and the entire family was driving north on the Florida Turnpike near the Osceola county line.Apparently the woman driver fell asleep and the Ford Explorer rolled several times. Eight passengers, including five children were thrown from the vehicle. No one had on a seat belt the Highway Patrol reports. The children ranged in ages from eight to 14. The were all from the...

• Safest Cars on the Road Are Good News

  Eddie Farah | November 17, 2007 10:30 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  If you are in the market for a new vehicle you will want to check out the auto industry's latest list of safest vehicles.The troubled Ford Motor Company may see some turnabout financially because of an emphasis on safety. You recall that the Ford Explorer had a problem with stability and all too often in a minor accident a it would roll often killing the occupants.Ford and Honda both have he...

• Family Says Goodbye to Child Hit By SUV

  Eddie Farah | November 15, 2007 10:42 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  It is a story we report here all too frequently.As SUV's get bigger, children stay little and difficult to see near the road. That's what happened to Shykeria Bynes.Last month she was crossing the street with her brothers to go to a nearby Gate gas station to buy candy with $1. The 6-year-old was holding their hands near 45th Street and Moncrief Road in Northwest Jacksonville. Shyshy as she...

• Favorite Principal Dies In Traffic Accident

  Eddie Farah | November 09, 2007 12:09 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Just the night before she died, Principal Kimberly Sue Brannan was at a program honoring Baker County's veterans where she commended her students.Friday morning, 44-year-old Brannan was driving on I-10 just west of I-295 on her way with three other teachers to a continuing education meeting in St. Augustine. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, Brannan, who was not wearing a seat belt, was...

• Florida Teens Wary of the Road

  Eddie Farah | November 08, 2007 8:46 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  It used to be you couldn't wait to get behind the wheel as a teenager.But if state statistics tell an accurate story, today teens are waiting to get their driver's license.The Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles statistics show that among sixteen-year-olds, 40 percent have their license. Compare that with 60 percent more than 20 years ago. And older teen drivers, 18 and...

• 15-Year-Old Hit By Car Trying To Help Dog

  Eddie Farah | November 03, 2007 12:07 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  15-year old Schaunell Bryant loved animals. She wanted to work with them someday. In fact, her mother was driving her to their Yulee home from Schaunell's job cleaning out stables, when they heard a thud. The van had hit a dog.Schaunell's mother pulled over and the girl was crouched near the dog on Blackrock Road. It was just beginning to get dark around 7p.m.23-year-old Christopher Peeples told...

• 11-Year-Old Killed Running for Bus

  Eddie Farah | October 26, 2007 8:03 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  It seems as though we are reporting this much too often.This time an 11-year old Callahan girl, Kelly Martinez, was crossing two-lane Lem Turned Road south of Church Road. It was about 7 a.m. and the girl was going to her school bus stop when she was hit by a Jeep Cherokee. Linda Brabham, 50, also of Callahan didn't see the girl and police do not believe she was driving improperly.Martinez...

• How Do We Get Downtown?

  Eddie Farah | October 23, 2007 10:31 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  There was a lot of confusion getting into downtown Monday, Oct 22, so the Department of Transportation plans on installing more signs to help motorists get there.Part of the problem is a new temporary ramp for motorists exiting onto Forsyth, Monroe, Union and King streets. If you are driving east on I-10, you are advised to go north on I-95 and exit the ramp immediately after the merge point...

• Investigation Reveals Airbags Often Fail

  Eddie Farah | October 23, 2007 3:41 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  This investigation by the Kansas City Star reveals that more often than should happen, front airbags do not inflate in head-on crashes. Unfortunately you do not know until you need them. The newspaper looked into the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) database and found that at least 1,400 motorists died from 2001 through 2006 in collisions where the airbags did not deploy. ...

• Hit-And-Run Driver Arrested

  Eddie Farah | October 20, 2007 12:17 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  It is unusual for a hit-and-run fatality to ever be solved. That's why we are encouraged to report that there has been an arrest in the death of Clint Malone, killed early last Saturday morning in Panama Ciity Beach by a hit-and-run driver.20-year-old Jeremy Matthew Hunt has been charged with leaving the scene of a crash that killed someone. Hunt was driving a pick up truck and had left Salty's...