Automobile Accidents

• Bridge Improvements Increase Speed, Accidents

  Eddie Farah | May 31, 2008 12:04 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  The newly renovatedMathews Bridge is one of seven main bridges going into Jacksonville, Florida. Recently it underwent amajor renovation that toned down the bumps of thegrated surface, which...

• Pickup Truck Occupants Ejected

  Eddie Farah | February 29, 2008 11:24 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Neither man was wearing a seat belt.So when the pickup truck they were driving in Columbia County drove off the road, one man was killed and a second man was in critical condition Thursday evening.53-year-old Ronald Turner was killed according to the Florida Highway Pastrol. His passenger 49-year-old Randy Grover was injured when the 1988 Chevrolet pickukp truck ran off Double Run Road around...

• Obese Are Not Wearing Seat Belts in Auto Accidents

  Eddie Farah | February 21, 2008 11:28 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Often we write here about a person's failure to wear a seat belt as being a contributing factor to injury. It's tough to figure out why people wouldn't wear a seat belt knowing your chance of surviving an auto accident is greatly increased. A new study sheds some light on that. Vanderbilt University researchers say some of you aren't wearing seat belts because not all carmakers are making them...

• Driver Convicted of Killing Three in Head-On Crash

  Eddie Farah | January 17, 2008 8:54 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  It was a simple act of running a stop sign on county road 215 in Middleburg.But that split second mistake took three lives and on Tuesday it sent the driver to prison, possibly for the rest of his life.Edward Abruscato, 40 was found guilty by a Clay County jury. When Abruscato ran the stop sign in November 2006, he plowed into a Nissan which then spun into the southbound lanes of 215 and was...

• Farah & Farah Wins $3.4 Million For Mother of Two

  Eddie Farah | September 14, 2007 10:18 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  November 8, 2004. It started like any other morning for 37-year-old Wendy Sugalski. She had just dropped her teenage child at school and was heading east on Atlantic Boulevard near Kernan to pick-up her other teenager.Sugalski was stopped at a red-light when her car was rear-ended by a 26,000 pound moving truck traveling 40 miles per hour. Her Honda Civic was pushed forward, the force...

• Toddler Dies In Hot Car

  Jane Akre | September 04, 2007 7:10 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Charges could be filed against a mother who took her toddler to her job and mistakenly left the girl in a hot car to die.It happened in Ocoee. The mother was supposed to take her 22-month old to day care. Instead she went right to her job at City Hall at 9 a.m. When she returned to the car about four hours later, the little girl was passed out in her car seat. She was pronounced dead at the...

• Mexican Trucks Coming Soon To U.S. Highways

  Eddie Farah | September 01, 2007 4:11 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  While immigration continues to be a hot topic to debate in some circles--the U.S. apparently does not have the same distain for goods from Mexico.Under a Bush administration plan, the U.S. will soon open its roads to about 100 semi-trucks from Mexico to travel freely on our highways. Up until now, there has been a limited area among border states where south-of-the-border trucks could bring in...

• 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...

• Young Woman Killed in Jacksonville Early Morning Crash

  Eddie Farah | June 28, 2007 6:52 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  She was just 21- years old. Stacie Long was reportedly driving west on Park Street in Jacksonville just after 2 a.m. early Wednesday morning, June 27th. Police say there was a flashing red light, indicating she should stop.Unfortunately she didn't.Long collided with a big rig carrying cars that was traveling south on Cassat Avenue. Police aren't sure whether the driver even slowed down for...

• Man dies after hitting stopped car

  Eddie Farah | December 08, 2006 7:24 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  On Thursday, December 7, 2006, Gene Rowe, age 65 ran into the rear of a car driven by Mary Wilson who had stopped only moments before because of an earlier accident. The ">accident occurred on County Road 125, Glen St. Mary, Florida.Edward Force, 21, has hit a deer and tied the animal to the hood of his vehicle. At 6:00 a.m. he crashed into a Baker County Sheriff's Office vehicle.Gene Rowe...