Automobile Accidents

• Florida May Make Seatbelt Law A Primary Enforcement Tool

  Eddie Farah | March 15, 2009 7:25 PM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL

  The proposal to tighten seat belt requirements has never passed before. In Florida, not wearing your seat belt will get you an additional fine, if, and only if, you are pulled over for a traffic...

• 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...

• Bicyclist Run Over By Truck and Killed on Westside of Jacksonville

  Eddie Farah | July 11, 2008 10:38 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Bicyclist Run Over By Truck and Killed on Westside of Jacksonville By Eddie Farah on July 11, 2008 Expect to hear more stories like this as the price of gasoline becomes prohibitively expensive...

• Parents- Think Twice About Hosting a Graduation Bash

  Eddie Farah | May 29, 2008 6:45 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  As school wraps up in Florida, graduates and their parents are looking forward to the summer, sleeping in, barbeques, pool parties and beer- soaked rampages. Parents might consider passing on the...

• Everyone At Fault in Fire Engine Accident

  Eddie Farah | January 24, 2008 7:26 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  It is a question of being in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong drivers involved.Two weeks ago, a truck and a fire engine collided at an intersection. Four firefighters were injured. Luckily no one was killed.Now after an investigation by the FHP, no charges will be filed because everyone was at fault.Engine 51 had its lights on and was speeding to a trailer park fire. The truck...

• Mother Facing Mounting Bills After Crash Kills Daughter

  Eddie Farah | December 01, 2007 12:49 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  As if losing your child is not bad enough, Carol Enlow now faces losing the home the single mother has worked hard to provide her family.And the tragic turn of her life all happened in a few seconds.Her daughter, 17-year-old Kim Enlow of Callahan was driving to Cold Stone last August to get some ice cream with a friend sitting next to her and more friends following in another car. They never...

• Ejected Passenger Dies After Blown Tire

  Eddie Farah | October 05, 2007 6:12 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  It all happened in the middle of the day. It could happen to anyone.South and northbound lanes of I-95 at Baymeadows had to be closed for almost two hours Thursday, after a car with a blown tire went off the road, hit a guardrail then rolled over.Around 2 p.m., Alicia Groatman, 32 of New Jersey, was heading south on I-95. Her tire blew and she veered into the path of a car driven by 26, year old...

• Truck Stuck Under Overpass

  Jane Akre | August 30, 2007 10:41 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  A portion of a downtown Jacksonville underpass was closed Wednesday after a semi-truck got stuck because it was too tall.The Forest Street area was closed for about seven hours under the I-95 overpass when the truck exited I-95 southbound and made a left turn onto Forest St.Unfortunately the driver missed the sign that said the clearance was 13-feet and three inches. Fortunately the driver was...

• 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...