Florida authorities are joining forces to reduce the number of traffic accidents involving stopped emergency vehicles or construction zones, where crashes are among the leading causes of fatal South Florida road construction accidents, according to the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. Construction zones and stopped emergency vehicles are…
For the elementary school students at Pine Joe Elementary in West Palm Beach, participating in the Oct. 6 Walk to School day event meant more than getting some fresh air and a traffic safety lessons on their way to and from school, the Sun Sentinel reports. For them, as much…
The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles is urging residents to wear white on Tuesday as part of a statewide “White Out” of teen traffic accidents. The awareness effort is part of National Teen Driver Safety Week, which runs from Oct. 17 to 23. Car accidents in Fort…
NHTSA promotes seat belt use as powerful injury-prevention tool for South Florida drivers A two-car accident on I-385 in South Carolina between a 2006 Toyota sedan and 2011 Chevrolet SUV carrying the driver and six passengers, all from South Florida, left one dead and sent seven to an area hospital…
A 12-year-old Swain Middle School student was struck and seriously injured Sept. 23 after getting off a school bus and running into the path of a northbound Mercedes-Benz, the Palm Beach Post reports. As our West Palm Beach pedestrian accident attorneys have noted in an early post to our South…
A North Miami resident and University of Wyoming freshman linebacker was killed and three of his fellow teammates were injured when their car rolled during an early morning one-car accident in Colorado, the Miami Herald reports. The 19-year-old is remembered as a Hollywood Chaminade-Madonna football star and the 2009 All-Broward…
A 26-year-old Lantana woman and her passenger were both seriously injured after the driver blacked out and crashed her Honda Civic into a home off West Ocean Avenue Sunday afternoon, the Palm Beach Post News reports. Officers responding to the Palm Beach car accident reported that the driver had not…
Driver fatigue has been linked to more than 100,000 serious car accidents annually that leave 71,000 people injured, 1,550 dead and cost more than $12.5 billion in damages and lost wages, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports. For the family of eight-year-old Ronshay Dugan, who was killed two years…
Last week Toyota rolled out one of its largest recalls since the auto manufacturer started recalling cars and trucks in October 2009. Toyota is recalling 1.3 million Corolla and Matrix models in the U.S. and Canada that may contain a defective part in the engine control module responsible for regulating…
While it is a sensitive issue, the fact of the matter is that elderly drivers are at increased risk of being involved in a Port St. Lucie car accident. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports there were 31 million older drivers on the road in 2007, an increase of…