Automobile Accidents

• Police Need Your Help Finding Hit-and-Run Driver

  Eddie Farah | October 15, 2007 1:28 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  A colleague of mine has asked us to put out the word on a hit-and-run that took the life of a family friend. The driver has not been apprehended.This happened early Saturday morning in Panama City Beach. 33-year-old Clint S. Malone was an attorney from Vero Beach visiting friends and family in the area. Early Saturday morning, Malone was out for an early morning bicycle ride on Thomas Drive. ...

• Officer of the Law Sentenced for Auto Accident

  Eddie Farah | October 13, 2007 9:52 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  For 17 years, Michael Gallagher has worked at the U.S. attorney's office helping prosecute those who violate the law. On Friday, the 50-year-old admitted his driving caused the death of a 23-year-old woman by driving too fast. He was sentenced to seven years in prison and five years probation.In August, he pled guilty to vehicular manslaughter on the eve of his trial. The accident happened in...

• Suspicious Man Crashes Car

  Eddie Farah | October 09, 2007 11:26 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Police never did have time to identify what John Sol was doing.They were too busy trying to catch him.The very energetic man was at a Hampton Inn on CR 208 in St. Augustine where he was making some sort of disturbance.When police got there he was gone but soon St. John's County Sheriff's deputies were in pursuit of the 44-year--old on SR 16. Sol was stopped by a deputy but then sped off. Police...

• Legislature Revives PIP In New Year

  Eddie Farah | October 05, 2007 6:46 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Call it the 11th hour.Apparently the states' no-fault system of insurance known as PIP (Personal Injury Protection) will be back January 1st, 2008, if Governor Crist signs a bill passed Friday by the Florida Legislature.Meeting in special session, the Senate joined the House in reviving PIP which had sunset October 1st. PIP had been virorously opposed by insurance industry lobbyists who said...

• Ejected Passenger Dies After Blown Tire

  Eddie Farah | October 05, 2007 6:12 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  It all happened in the middle of the day. It could happen to anyone.South and northbound lanes of I-95 at Baymeadows had to be closed for almost two hours Thursday, after a car with a blown tire went off the road, hit a guardrail then rolled over.Around 2 p.m., Alicia Groatman, 32 of New Jersey, was heading south on I-95. Her tire blew and she veered into the path of a car driven by 26, year old...

• PIP Due To Sunset Sunday

  Jane Akre | September 29, 2007 12:18 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Florida's Governor Charlie Crist does not want PIP (Personal Injury Protection) to expire October 1st, and he may have to stand his ground to have the special legislative session take up the issue.Speaker of the House, Marco Rubio, R-West Miami, has asked the governor to add PIP to next week's agenda against the wishes of Senate President Ken Pruitt, R-Port St. Lucie, who wants to focus on the...

• School Bus Driver Arrested After Crash

  Eddie Farah | September 28, 2007 11:50 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Unbelievably no children were hurt when a school bus crashed into a fire hydrant this week. The driver, 63-year-old Jean King Jones has been arrested on charges of driving under the influence.Police say she was so bad off that she couldn't stand up for her questioning. Instead she had slurred speech and kept falling asleep. Upon getting out of the bus around 5 p.m. at Cahoon Road and Ramona...

• Georgia Motorcyclist Killed After Hit-And-Run

  Eddie Farah | September 26, 2007 12:44 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Albert Hamilton was with his friend enjoying their motorcycles at a good rate of speed on U.S. 1 near Hilliard.Just after 11:30 Friday night their ride came to an end.That's when 48-year old Hamilton of Folkston, Georgia lost control of his motorcycle and overturned, his motorcycle coming to a rest in the road. His friend, Roy Milton, 47, swerved to the right to avoid hitting Hamilton, which he...

• Man Killed by Fleeing Drunk Driver

  Eddie Farah | September 25, 2007 10:33 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  A police chase involving a drunk driver has resulted in another death on our roads.The incident happened early Sunday morning when 32-year-old Brian C. Laubert was driving an SUV fast to get away from the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. He had been spotted after a hit-and-run at Blanding and 103rd Street and officers flattened his tires to try and get him to slow down from his 70 mph speed. ...

• SR 100 Closes and Driver Killed When Two Rigs Collide

  Eddie Farah | September 20, 2007 11:53 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  It happened Tuesday afternoon in Putnam County. A semi, driven by 35-year old Frank Browning of Lawtey, was heading west on SR 100. He came upon another tractor-trailer, but this one had stopped in the road in front of him. FHP reports that for some reason Browning failed to slow down in time and hit the rig in front of him. Browning was killed at the scene while the other driver was not...