Posts Categorized: Personal Injury - Page 5

Hit-and-Run Victim Awakens from Coma

Matthew Danchak was hit by an 18-wheeler last Friday on the Sawgrass Expressway in Coral Springs. He was crossing the highway after getting into a minor accident when he was hit. Police are still looking for the truck’s driver. According to family members, Danchak is now out of a. He is expected to undergo surgery on Tuesday. For a motorist to hit a pedestrian or other motorist in a hit … Read More »

Boat Capsizes off of Miami Coast, Several Dead

Four women have died and 11 have been arrested after a boat with more than a dozen people on board capsized early Wednesday in the waters off of South Florida. According to reports from the U.S. Coast Guard, the incident happened just before 1:00 a.m. when one of the survivors on the boat dialed 911. Passengers on the boat included Haitians and Jamaicans. Rescuers found four adult females underneath the … Read More »

Boyfriend Makes Plea for Hit-and-Run Driver to Come Forward

A woman who was jogging has suffered serious injuries after she was struck by a hit and run driver on Monday night. Law enforcement continues to search for the driver responsible in the incident. Odiliana Gonzalez and her boyfriend, Angel Pinto were jogging near the intersection of Country Club Prado and South Greenway Drive, at around 6 p.m. when Gonzalez was hit by a vehicle. Eyewitnesses to the incident describe the … Read More »

Elderly Driver Crashes through Three Yards

In another amazing Miami story, an older driver took quite the wrong turn getting back to her home. The 60-year-old driver managed to put her Mercedes through three yards, mowing over fences, dodging swimming pools, and hitting a sunbather before coming to a stop against her own house. The sunbather that was injured was taken to Broward Health Medical Center in serious condition. Her condition has since degraded to critical. … Read More »

Boy Dies in a Swimming Pool on Cruise Trip

A 6-year-old boy has drowned in one of the pools on board a Carnival Cruise Lines ship while at sea over the weekend. In a statement by the cruise line on Monday, officials said that the Carnival Victory was on the last leg of a four-day Caribbean cruise Sunday when the boy drowned in the mid-ship pool. The boy was in the pool area with other family members at the … Read More »

Garbage Truck Driver Dies after Tire Blowout

According to Florida Highway Patrol, at around 12:30 p.m. Monday afternoon, a SWS Waste Management truck crashed into a barrier while traveling northbound on the Turnpike near 106th Street. A South Florida truck driver was pronounced dead on the scene after one of vehicle’s tires blew out on the highway. No one else was injured. Every year, there are thousands of truck accidents that result in injury or death. Accidents … Read More »

Police Chase Ends in Living Room and a Big Hole

Hollywood resident Teresa Alvarado was startled by a series of deafening booms on Friday night that ended up with a police cruiser crashing into the side of her home. Police were responding to a burglary call in the area of 5010 Johnson Street at around 8:00 p.m., when the officer responding to the call and the driver of a BMW were involved in the accident. Yaileen DeLaRosa, age 11, was … Read More »

Armed Robbery Chase Leads to Police Cruiser Damage

Hialeah Police offers were led on a chase by an armed robbery ending in the suspect’s Volkswagen Passat colliding with a police cruiser.  The armed robbery was reported at 2125 West 52nd Street in Hialeah. According to Hialeah police spokesman Det. Carl Zogby, it is unknown whether or not the victim of the robbery was hurt. During the chase, there was a secondary accident that involved a Hialeah Police Department … Read More »

Texting While Driving is now Illegal in Flordia

It will soon be illegal to text while driving in the state of Florida. As of Tuesday, October 1, 2013, State legislators successfully passed the texting while driving ban across the entire state. This new law is one of more than two dozen additional laws passed by state legislators that are scheduled to begin. Florida is joining 40 other states with similar bans on texting while driving. The law makes … Read More »

Propane Tank Rupture Injures Worker, Gas Contained

A propane tank rupture in a Lauderhill residential neighborhood has sent a worker to the hospital on Wednesday. According to investigators, an employee of the gas company was filling an underground tank when the valve broke in the area of Northwest 29th Street and 56th Avenue. While both emergency crews and the gas company state that the gas leak has been capped, one of the workers was injured and taken … Read More »

Ambulance on its Side after Crash, Medics Sent to Hospital

An ambulance and another vehicle were involved in a crash that left the emergency vehicle on its side leaving five people injured. Davie Fire Rescue was on the scene where five people were injured, including the two medics aboard the ambulance. The accident occurred on Oaks Road and State Road 7 and caused some traffic on southbound 441. Drivers were urged to use alternate routes. The victims were treated on … Read More »

Pedestrian Struck and Killed at the Airport

An accident at the Miami International airport has left a 51-year old pedestrian dead who was returning to the area from a business trip. The fatal crash occurred sometime just after 12 p.m. outside Terminal H between the gates for Delta Airlines and Aeromexico. Miami-Dade Police have sealed off the part of the terminal where the accident occurred while they investigated the scene. The victim was pronounced dead at the … Read More »

Man Injured in Apartment Fire

A South Florida man is recovering in the hospital after being trapped in his apartment after it caught fire. The blaze broke out Monday in the man’s second floor apartment near West Sample Road and 88th Avenue. Coral Springs Fire Rescue released video of smoke billowing from the windows of the apartment and firefighters rescuing the man. Rescue crews transported him to Northwest Medical Center where he was treated for … Read More »

Charges Dropped Against Man in Bar Fight

A man who was severely injured in a fight and wrongfully arrested at a South Florida bar is filing a lawsuit against the establishment. When Alex Coelho, his girlfriend and a group of friends decided to go out at a local drinking establishment, they had no idea that the evening would turn into a bar fight. Coelho was attacked outside of Dirty Blondes in Fort Lauderdale Beach back in July. … Read More »