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Fiery Palmetto Bay Crash Sends Many to Hospital

Posted: November 17th, 2016 | Categories: Car Accident, In The News

An accident in Palmetto Bay has sent a number of people to the hospital on Sunday night. According to authorities, the accident happened when a driver slammed their vehicle into a light pole on U.S. Highway 1 at Hibiscus Street. The car’s engine immediately burst into flames. Police officers arrived at the scene of the crash and used fire extinguishers as they pulled two of the three people out of … Read More »

Driver Cut from Car after Bus Crash

Posted: November 9th, 2016 | Categories: Car Accident, In The News

A two-vehicle crash involving a school bus early Friday has left one person critically injured. According to authorities, the accident occurred just before 6:00 a.m. at N.W. 137th Avenue and N.W. 6th Street when a school bus was pulling out of a parking lot. A Toyota Camry collided with the bus. The impact caused the car to cross the median, coming to rest on the guard rail. The driver of … Read More »

Heroic Rescue from Burning Car

Posted: November 2nd, 2016 | Categories: Car Accident, In The News

The wide range of weather conditions in the state of Florida can have an effect on our roadways. It rains frequently here and slick roads can cause an accident leaving drivers and their passengers with serious injuries. A woman was trapped in her vehicle in an accident in Opalocka that may have been directly caused by road conditions. It was through the quick thinking of a police officer in the … Read More »

Good Samaritan Injured in Hit and Run

Posted: October 26th, 2016 | Categories: In The News

It’s s natural human instinct to want to assist someone when you see them in trouble. We all hope that if we ever find ourselves in a tough spot, someone will be there to look after us, too. A man who was doing a good deed in assisting two other people who were in an accident ended up being hurt himself when he was the victim of a hit and … Read More »

Veteran Convicted of Fatal DUI Accident

Posted: October 20th, 2016 | Categories: Car Accident, In The News

When someone drinks and drives, it isn’t just themselves that they are affecting. Choosing to drive under the influence of alcohol can have tragic consequences that can affect anyone else on the road and their families as well. Christopher Masferrer, 33, a Marine Corps veteran who served in Afghanistan chose to drink and drive in the spring of 2014 and ended up taking the lives of three people in an … Read More »

Power Outage May have Cause Serious Crash with Police Cruiser

Posted: October 12th, 2016 | Categories: Car Accident, In The News

A two-car crash involving an Audi and Miami-Dade police cruiser on its way to a call has left the driver of the Audi and a child in the back seat with critical injuries. The reason? A power outage. According to authorities, the accident occurred at approximately 6:30 p.m. at the intersection of NW 57th Avenue and West Flagler Street when an Audi A4, with three adults and five children aboard, … Read More »

Special Fund Released for Victims of Pulse Shootings

Posted: October 6th, 2016 | Categories: In The News, Personal Injury

After an accident or act of violence, families are often left with the difficult task of picking up the pieces once again. During the summer on June 12th, Gunman Omar Mateen opened fire at the Pulse nightclub. The rampage left 49 victims dead and 53 wounded. The incident is now the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. For the victims and the families of the Pulse nightclub shooting in … Read More »

Dump Truck Crash Caused by Sleeping Driver According to Report

Posted: September 28th, 2016 | Categories: Car Accident, In The News

A final crash report reveals the driver of a dump truck –car crash in Miami was caused by the truck driver falling asleep at the wheel. The report indicated that a toxicology test that truck driver, Larry Ellis, had traces of a non-narcotic medicine in his system. Although it is not a narcotic, the drug is known to cause drowsiness and to induce sleep. Investigators say that Ellis had been driving eastbound when his truck … Read More »

Bus Accident on the Florida Turnpike

Posted: September 21st, 2016 | Categories: Car Accident, In The News

One person was injured and taken to the hospital after a two-vehicle accident involving a bus full of children in Southwest Miami-Dade County last week. According to police, the accident occurred just after 8:00 a.m. on the Florida Turnpike near Southwest 152nd Street when a red truck struck a KinderCare bus carrying adults and children. The truck driver was injured in the accident and was transported by ambulance to Jackson … Read More »

Autopilot Not Blamed in Dutch Tesla Crash

Posted: September 14th, 2016 | Categories: Car Accident, In The News

Another driver has died after his Tesla Motors Model S sedan crashed.  Investigators say that driver had been going more than 96 miles per hour just prior to the crash on Wednesday morning. Police investigators near the Dutch town of Baarn said that the vehicle crashed into a tree and burst into flames. Tesla sent representatives to the scene to work with investigators in order to determine what caused the … Read More »

Strange Crash on I-95

Posted: September 7th, 2016 | Categories: Car Accident, In The News

Accidents can happen under inexplicable circumstances and can leave accident victims in strange circumstances.  That is the case when a sports car somehow ended up with its rear end hanging over a barrier on the I-95 Tuesday morning. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the white Ferrari in the southbound lands just north of I-595 had its rear wheels hung up over the guard rails and the car facing north. … Read More »

Officer Killed in Rear-End Accident in Coral Springs

Posted: August 24th, 2016 | Categories: Car Accident, In The News

A car accident in Coral Springs early Sunday morning has left a Fort Lauderdale Police Detective dead and a Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue Captain injured. According to Coral Springs Police, the fatal crash happened approximately 2:30 a.m. at the intersection of State Road 7 and Wiles Road when Detective Christopher Sheehan, driving a 1995 Jeep Wrangler, was heading northbound on State Road 7 when his vehicle was rear-ended by a … Read More »