Automobile Accidents

• Woman Buckles Up Infant As Her Last Act

  Eddie Farah | November 13, 2008 10:20 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  A very sad story was in our paper this week. A woman, 39-year-old Kimberly Frazier, was driving south on U.S. 1 in Flagler County in northeast Florida. She drove her Chevy Blazer too close to a...

• Support National Salvage Vehicles Database

  Eddie Farah | November 11, 2008 4:50 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Every try to buy a used car? About as much fun as going to the dentist. Not to disparage dentists, or the used car industry, but it can be very tricky. The used car stuff that...

• Drinking Age Should Stay 21

  Eddie Farah | November 06, 2008 5:14 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is releasing new data that shows that keeping the drinking age laws at 21 prevented an estimated 4,441 drunk driving deaths over the last five...

• Florida Foreclosures At Number 3 Nationwide

  Internal Administrator | October 18, 2008 2:35 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Often times a hit-and-run driver is never apprehended. They get away knowing they can get away with it. That was not the case with the driver who hit Darryl Green. Darryl Green was in the wrong...

• Florida Defines Road Rage And Aggressive Driving

  Eddie Farah | October 10, 2008 12:30 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Aggressive driving is responsible for 2/3rds of all fatalities on the road each year, or 27,000 deaths. That number is four times the number of deaths resulting from DUI or drunk under the...

• Teen Auto Safety Message By Teens For Teens

  Eddie Farah | October 08, 2008 11:47 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  With more than 36,000 teen drivers involved in car crashes in Florida last year – and a teen killed every 6.5 minutes nationwide, the state’s Department of Highway Safety and Motor...

• DUI Mom Will Go To Prison For 9 Years For Killing Son

  Eddie Farah | October 03, 2008 9:33 PM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL

  A 32-yer-old Jacksonville woman will be spending close to nine years in prison for driving drunk and killing her son in the crash that followed. Last April, Angela Harper was was drunk driving at...

• Auto Fraud Database Will Help Consumers

  Eddie Farah | September 27, 2008 1:36 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  It was 1992 when Congress passed a law calling for the creation of a database of rebuilt or stolen vehicles. But it never happened until now. A U.S. judge has ruled that the Department of Justice...

• Florida Fatal Highway Accidents Down, Alcohol Use Deaths Up

  Eddie Farah | September 26, 2008 1:11 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Fatal accidents on Florida's roads are down four percent, according to the Florida Highway Patrol, but deaths from alcohol-related crashes are on the rise. For the second year in a row, the number...

• Student Killed When Tractor Trailer Driver On Cellphone Collides With School Bus

  Eddie Farah | September 25, 2008 12:58 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Incredible details are coming out about a school bus crash in Citra, Florida that killed one 13-year old girl. The tractor-trailer driver was talking on his cell phone when he slammed into the...