Automobile Accidents

• More Women Driving Drunk Focus of Labor Day Crackdown

  Eddie Farah | August 23, 2009 11:25 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  A new study shows that women are increasingly being pulled over for driving under the influence or DUI. The Transportation Department reports the number of women arrested for DUI has jumped nearly...

• New Policy For Beach-Driving Leaves Public Vulnerable

  Eddie Farah | May 29, 2009 12:09 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  We reported earlier this month about a Jacksonville Beach police SUV that accidentally ran over a woman who was sunbathing. She was in very critical condition and is just now able to speak. The...

• Two-Year-Old Killed In Driveway By SUV

  Eddie Farah | March 14, 2009 1:04 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  This is a very sad story we keep reporting because unfortunately it keeps happening. On Tuesday afternoon, a 2-year-old girl died in her driveway when her father backed up his SUV and didn’t...

• Vehicular Homicide Charges Filed Against Officer's Girlfriend

  Eddie Farah | September 16, 2008 4:57 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  A Jacksonville Sheriff Officer's girlfriend has been charged with his death in an auto accident. 50-year-old Officer Michael Hartsfield died July 30, when the car he was a passenger in crashed off...

• I-95 Fatal Head-On Kills 2, Injures 3

  Eddie Farah | July 18, 2008 10:11 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  No one knows why a St. Augustine woman was driving south in the northbound lane of I-95 at 3 a.m., Thursday morning. She was killed instantly when her vehicle collided head-on with an SUV...

• Open House Party Goes Wild- Three Teens Arrested, 14-Year-Old Hospitalized

  Eddie Farah | July 12, 2008 5:55 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Open House Party Goes Wild- Three Teens Arrested, 14-Year-Old Hospitalized By Eddie Farah on July 12, 2008 Three St. Johns County Florida teenagers were arrested Saturday for giving a 14-year-old...

• Highway Traffic Safety Regulators Asleep on the Job

  Eddie Farah | February 16, 2007 10:38 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Anyone who passes a big-rig on the highway knows the feeling -- your heart races, you hold your breath and say a little prayer. You hope the truck driver is paying attention and has had enough sleep that day. But we know from experience that too many truckers on the road are pushing the limits. And federal rules now allow drivers to work 14-hour days, 11-hours behind the wheel, that's three...

• Floridians Get Three Moving Violations Then Lose License

  Eddie Farah | July 24, 2009 11:51 PM | 2 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  A new law in Florida should send reckless drivers back to driving school. Beginning January 1, any driver who is convicted of three moving violations that led to a crash during a three-year-period...

• Woman Killed In Rollover Trying To Avoid Motorcycle

  Eddie Farah | March 26, 2009 11:15 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Charges are pending against a motorcyclist who sped up on the back of a woman’s car causing her to lose control and die in a rollover. According to the Florida Highway Patrol 32-year-old...

• Curbing House Parties - The Party's Over Campaign

  Eddie Farah | March 16, 2009 11:00 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Just on the verge of spring break, “The Party’s Over” campaign has been launched in St. Johns County, south of Jacksonville, by Sheriff David Shoar. Underage drinking has gotten...