Automobile Accidents

• 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...

• I-95 Wreck Kills Two In Head-On

  Eddie Farah | July 19, 2007 5:06 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Why would a driver travel north in the southbound lanes of I-95?It happened just before midnight Wednesday according to the Florida Highway Patrol.The northbound car crashed into an SUV. Both car's drivers were killed instantly.47-year old Richard Welch of Palm Coast was heading north driving the wrong way when he struck the Chevrolet Suburban head-on.49-year old Mary Jordan of Port Salerno was...

• Motorists Fail To "Move Over" And Hit Officer

  Eddie Farah | July 18, 2007 11:57 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  During the 2002 Florida legislature, the state's move-over laws were passed.They require motorists to move over or slow down when they see an emergency or law enforcement vehicle on the side of the road. If possible, a motorist is suppose to vacate the lane closest to the emergency vehicle.Makes sense. It might have avoided an officer being hit Tuesday.The officer was just trying to move a...

• 2 Die on I-95 Near Airport

  Eddie Farah | July 17, 2007 11:47 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  The two men were leaving the Jacksonville International airport just after 11 a.m. on Tuesday. They were driving a bread delivery truck. It should have been a normal day.Instead it was their last. 42-year old Paul Thompson was a passenger in the delivery truck driven by 22-year old Kennard Montford.As the two men travelled southbound, just north of Duval Road, the truck began drifting off the...