Motor Vehicle Accidents | InjuryBoard Jacksonville

Traffic on Interstate 95 just south of Jacksonville had to come to a crawl as the road was closed when a car drove underneath a semitrailer.The Florida Highway Patrol says that 41-year-old Robert Barker drove his Honda into a semi and continued driving until the front of his vehicle went under the truck's trailer.This all happened early in the morning Friday, about 2:40 in the southbound lanes. ...

Continue article

It's tough to argue with the picture of the bruises.The parents of a 9-year old boy who is autistic and blind say that attendants on a First Student school bus abused their child and left marks on him. They are suing the bus attendants and First Student Inc. charging negligence and battery."There has been an outrageous sequence of events," said the family's attorney, Eric Block.The incident...

Continue article

The likelihood of this happening is very slim.But one man who worked as a traffic engineer was in a bucket working on a traffic light. The driver of a Jacksonville Transportation Authority bus either didn't see the flag man or ignored him and struck the truck knocking the man 52-year old Cesar Solomon out of the bucket to fall to his death.Police report that the work crew appeared to be doing...

Continue article

A Florida man is under arrest after ending a police pursuit by crashing his vehicle into a Georgia State Patrol deputy's car.Sunday about 1 in the afternoon, Theodore Thomas Wagner approached the security guard at the Bayer Corporation in Kingsland, Georgia. He was reportedly acting erratically. He said he was being chased and he was a short while later when he was on I-95 after attracting...

Continue article

More legislative action is proposed out of Tallahassee this session that might help keeps roads safer.One of the more innovative involves placing red-light cameras that would take a driver's image when they are caught running a red light. A violation could result in a fine. A seat belt violation proposal is back. It would allow law enforcement to pull over someone for not wearing their seat...

Continue article

Tallahassee lawmakers are trying to make driving safer for all of us by cracking down on left lane hogs. You've seen them going slow in the left passing lane while talking on their cell phone oblivious to lights. Often they aren't even wearing their seat belt. Proposed Senate Bill 1266 and House Bill 357 would make it illegal to talk on the phone while driving in Florida. That's already the...

Continue article

The attendance was double this year, a sure sign that this teenage education program has hit a nerve. It's called a STUD Rally - Stop Teen Underage Drinking and it looked more like a party at the Morocco Shrine Auditorium Thursday. High schoolers packed the place listening to DJs from 93.3 The Beat, competing for prizes and hearing from First Coast News Sports Director Dan Hicken. Despite the...

Continue article

If you are thinking about speeding anytime this weekend, forget about it.That's because the Florida Highway Patrol will be monitoring you from aircraft, with lasers, radar and marked and unmarked cars on the Interstates, the Florida Turnpike and major and minor roads.From Friday through Sunday, Operation Safe Ride intends to find speeders who tend to come to Florida for spring break and put the...

Continue article

In about 35 percent of auto accidents, death occurs where there is a rollover. In a SUV the death rate jumps to 59 percent.The key to surviving the crash, if you are not ejected, is the strength of the vehicle's roof. Right now the federal government is considering increasing roof strength, something that hasn't been done in passengers cars since 1974. The Insurance Institute for Highway...

Continue article

While cracked roads and potholes have been causing motorists to shell out about $400 extra in wear and tear on their cars, a national study says that Jacksonville's roads rank as "good" when compared to the nation. 9 percent are "mediocre" and 4 percent of our roads are rated as poor.The ratings were conducted by the nonprofit research group that focuses on transportation called TRIP, based...

Continue article

There is nothing more frightening that thinking that a drunk person may be behind the wheel of the car next to you.Several motorists were frightened Sunday when a pickup truck truck speeded down Atlantic Avenue then lost control and flew into the air. After going airborne the vehicle flipped over the median landing on top of another car this afternoon.Police investigating the scene say they...

Continue article

You have to wonder what he was thinking.A 42-year old man ridiing a bicycle in the dark. It was raining. Thomas Mattox, 42, was from St. Augustine but for some reason he was riding his bicycle about 10 pm on U.S. 17 in Putnam County.Mattox was crossing the road when he was hit by the first car. Chantel Sloan, 17, reportedly didn't see Mattox. His bicycle had no lights and he was wearing dark...

Continue article

There was no match between a tour bus with 60 people on board and a car. The two tangled on Interstate 95 this afternoon. The bus won.The two vehicles were traveling southbound on I-95 just beyond International Golf Parkway.Four people were in the car. All were injured and taken to Flagler Hospital. There is no word on their condition.Everyone on the bus was okay except they couldn't get the...

Continue article

It happens every year and every year we report that more people have died on our local roads.Bike Week in Daytona brings motorcyclists from around the country. Some are wearing helmets, many are not since it is not required for adults in Florida to do so. So far this week we have five deaths to report. In the first a man and a woman were killed in New Smyna Beach on state road 44 Sunday night....

Continue article

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...

Continue article