The Auto Insurance Center gathered data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System to identify America’s deadliest driving counties and states. The Auto Insurance Center looked at a total of 714,956 fatal accidents over a 20-year period and indexed stats against the number of people living in each county and state. [...]
Nearly every state in the United States requires car drivers to obtain car insurance. Despite laws requiring insurance, however, it should come as no surprise that many millions of drivers still do not obtain insurance. Either they are unable to pay for car insurance or they simply refuse. According to a recent report from the [...]
If you loan or lease a car, it may be wise to obtain insurance known as guaranteed auto protection or “GAP” coverage. If a vehicle is involved in an accident that results in total loss, GAP coverage seeks to make the insured whole by covering the difference between the current market value of a vehicle [...]
Last month, five people suffered injuries in a car crash after an SUV slammed into an Orlando store. According to Florida Highway Patrol, the driver of an SUV had been traveling west on Edgewater Drive. As the SUV drove across railroad tracks near Edgewater Shores Court, the driver apparently lost control of his SUV and [...]
Robert Corchado is charged with possession of cocaine with intent to sell, trafficking heroin, and leaving the scene of a car crash that ended with the death of a four-year-old girl at her daycare center on April 9th of this year. According to Florida Highway Patrol troopers, Corchado crashed his Dodge Durango into another driver [...]
An Orlando woman tragically died recently from injuries she sustained in a crash. What makes this story unique, however, is that the woman’s injuries were inconsistent with typical car accident injuries because the windows remained intact and the woman wore her seatbelt. Instead, according to the medical examiner’s report, the Orlando woman apparently died from [...]
A recent Florida case involving the wrongful death lawsuit of a motorist involved in a fatal auto accident collision with a truck has highlighted how privacy rights and discovery requests in an effort to prove fault and comparative negligence can intersect as opposing interests in Florida car accident cases. Improper use of a mobile device [...]
The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration has a reminder for motorists this time of year. With thousands of school children in Florida and around the nation returning to classrooms this fall, NHTSA has issued an advisory urging drivers to be cautious in school zones and around school bus stops. Analyzing accident data between 2002 and 2012, [...]
