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Car accidents on Florida’s streets and highways are a constant occurrence. There are roughly 250,000 car accidents in Florida every year, and these accidents cause roughly 200,000 injuries and over 2,000 deaths every year According to both the Florida Insurance Council and the Insurance Research Council, nearly one in four drivers in Florida is uninsured. [...]
Particularly during the summer months when children are on summer vacation from school, people are excited to go swimming and attend backyard barbeques. Of course, the possibility for accidents involving pools grows with increased pool use. Spinal injuries can occur when people dive into shallow water. People can become electrocuted if the electrical component of [...]
Recently, furniture giant IKEA and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (“CPSC”) announced that IKEA is recalling roughly 27 million chests and dressers after two toddlers died in 2014 when IKEA Malm chests fell onto them. According to the CPSC, 363 people died between 2000 and 2011 due to falling furniture, appliances, and electronics; of those [...]
On Saturday, July 18, 2015, an Orlando police officer struck a person riding a bicycle on Kirkman Road, north of Vineland Road. The bicycle rider was taken to the hospital. An accident involving an automobile and a bicycle can be devastating for the bicycle rider; a fight between an automobile and a bicycle is not [...]
Mark Rosekind, the administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) will be stopping in Orlando to spread awareness about the Takata air bag recall and to encourage people to check if their vehicles are affected by the recall. Takata has recalled more than 32 million air bags in the United States. At least [...]
Three people were injured, two seriously, in a head-on collision that occurred on Lake Underhill Road in Orlando on July 8, 2015. The collision resulted in a fire that trapped all three people, who had to be rescued by the fire department. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, one of the drivers was issued a [...]
A Virginia man was recently awarded $500,000 in a medical malpractice case against the anesthesiologist who put him under sedation during a colonoscopy in 2013. Tiffany Ingham, 42, was ordered to pay her patient after she was caught on recording mocking the man mercilessly while he was unconscious to other medical professionals in the room. [...]
A man died last week after accidentally driving his car the wrong way into oncoming traffic on Dale Mabry Highway in Tampa. Dennis Wayne Garate, 63, was driving his Toyota southbound towards Idlewild Avenue on the Dale Mabry Highway when he entered the left turn lane of the road. However, instead of turning he continued [...]
A 17-year-old driver lost control of the car that he was driving and drove the vehicle straight into a neighbor’s pool. The accident occurred recently in the Forest Hills area. According to the police, Koree Stanton, 17, was driving a four door Chevy when he struck an empty Hyundai car on N. Ola Avenue and [...]
A Tampa man died recently in a motorcycle accident after a car hit the motorcycle that he was driving. The accident occurred at the corner of Harney Road and Davis Road at around 8:00 p.m. that night. Police identified the motorcycle driver as Francis Penon, 49, as a resident of the city. According to the [...]
