Automobile Accidents

• Dash Cam Shows DUI Test After Officer Hit and Killed

  Eddie Farah | August 11, 2007 10:05 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Police are just now releasing the videotape shot from the dashboard camera last April, as a UNF student takes a field sobriety test.The student, 21-year old Austin Wright is shown weaving and having trouble touching his hand to his nose just moments after he drove into Lt. Corey Dahlem while driving on University Avenue in Gainesville.Dahlem died in the hospital.This video will be used in the...

• Victim of Hit-And-Run Records Driver's Outburst

  Eddie Farah | August 09, 2007 7:17 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  You need to be very careful how you conduct youself in public these days.You never know who may be watching or recording you on their cell phone camera.That's what happened to Doyle Kelly. He allegedly backed into another driver's car. That driver, Damone Smith, followed Kelley from the accident site at Baymeadows and Old Kings Rd, down Baymeadows and into a gas station on San Jose Boulevard....

• Teen Carjacking Victims Speak Out

  Eddie Farah | August 08, 2007 8:04 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  It was just another day at the Orange Park Mall for teenagers Meagan Forehand, Paige Savoie, and Meagan's 10-year old sister.They were shopping during tax-free week. About 5:30, in broad daylight, the girls left the mall and were gathered around Meagan's 2007 Suzuki.That's when a man approached with a gun and demanded the car.Meagan fought back verbally. "He said, 'Give me your car.' I said,...

• Are Florida's Bridges Safe?

  Eddie Farah | August 03, 2007 11:41 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Florida's Department of Transportation is assuring residents that our seven largest bridge spans are safeThese questions are obviously in the forefront of drivers as they see the devastation in Minneapolis following the crumbling interstate bridge. So far 8 are still missing and 5 reportedly killed when the cars tumbled like toys from the span and fell 60 feet into the Mississippi River.The...

• Spitting Man Dies Falling Out Of Car

  Eddie Farah | August 01, 2007 11:09 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  This is a bizarre story but also a reminder that cars are to be taken seriously.A Pensacola man tried to spit out an open car door but lost his life doing so.37-year-old Miguel Rogelio was riding in the front seat as a passenger Tuesday morning. He opened the car door and leaned out to spit. Instead he lost his balance, fell and struck his head on the pavement. The driver says she was going...

• Another Young Life Gone On Our Roads

  Eddie Farah | July 30, 2007 11:41 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  23-year -old Marcus Anton Milton was seen by a Sheriff's officer just a few moments before he crashed.The officer watched him speed by about 40 miles over the speed limit, then run a red light. When the officer caught up with him on Boulevard Street near west 12th Street a few minutes later, he saw the Ford had flipped off the road and overturned in a vacant lot.Milton died at the scene. His...

• Police In I-10 Pursuit Hit Woman's Car

  Eddie Farah | July 28, 2007 4:59 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Chiffon Powell was driving home with friends around 4 a.m. Friday when she looked up and saw flashing lights.That's what she remembers seeing before her car was struck and she lost control of the vehicle, hitting the median wall of I-10 westbound at Stockton Street. 21-year-old Powell was struck by a Jacksonville Sheriff's Office police cruiser in pursuit of a speeding car. The speeder got away...

• Jury Orders Ford to Pay $6 Million to Paralyzed Man

  Eddie Farah | July 26, 2007 3:57 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Julian Felipe of Hialeah, Florida, was just 17-years-old when the Ford Aerostar van he was riding in rolled over leaving him paralyzed.Felipe and his family were in Sarasota on a family vacation in 2002 when a tire blew out causing the van to flip. Julian was injured when the roof caved in breaking his neck.On trial in Fort Lauderdale, the jury decided that Ford knew the tendancy for the van to...

• Arrest In Fatal Hit-And-Run

  Eddie Farah | July 25, 2007 8:17 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  It took police only a few hours, but a man accused of killing a motorcyclist in a Northside hit-and-run has been arrested.21-year old Jimmie Turner was, according to police, driving his pickup truck down Basiden Road Monday night. According to the official report, he veered into the oncoming lane and hit 56-year old Charles Sweezer and then took off. Sweezer was taken to the hospital but did not...

• Georgia Toddler Run Over By Mother

  Eddie Farah | July 20, 2007 4:53 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  It's happened again. Proving again that children and SUVs are a dangerous combination.A woman driving to work near Savannah pulled her Isuzu Ascension out of the driveway when her 20-month old daughter, Kyla Grimes ran out of the house and toward the car.39-year old Kim Smith says she felt a bump. After pulling out of the driveway she saw the little girl in her rear-view mirror. She had...