Four caskets were lowered into the ground next to each other during a recent service in Fort Lauderdale. They belonged to a family who was killed last week after their vehicle plunged into a Deerfield Beach lake. According to The Miami Herald, more than 1,000 friends and family members attended…
If you’re going to be driving through West Palm Beach, you might want to be a little more obedient at intersections. The city has decided to expand its red-light camera program. Cameras are going up at 25 more intersections, according to The Palm Beach Post. When they are up and…
The speed limit on I-75 in 70 miles per hour. If you’re obeying the speed limit, you’re traveling at 103 feet a second. If you’re text messaging behind the wheel, you’re missing a lot of the action. The average text message takes about 4 seconds to send/receive. During this time,…
Just when you thought you made it safely through the rush of the holidays — you’re faced with the risks that come along with Snowbirds, tourists and Florida’s high season. Our Wilton Manor accident lawyers see Florida snowbirds just as the Danish see Sort Sol. Sort Sol, or Black Sun,…
Traffic planners and police officers say that the intersection where the fatal motorcycle accident happened in late December isn’t inherently unsafe — but motorists are still asked to be on their best behavior as they should at all intersections. Our Port St. Lucie motorcycle accident lawyers are talking about the…
A former minister and her two children were involved in a fatal car accident on Alligator Alley. Unfortunately, the mother and her 3-year-old daughter were killed in the crash. According to Florida Baptist Witness, the former minister of Eustis’ Bay Street Baptist Church was driving near mile marker 88 when…
The number one cause of workplace fatalities is traffic accidents. And one of the leading causes of these kinds of accidents is distracted driving, according to the National Safety Council (NSC). As a matter of fact, researchers report that it’s the cause of one out of every four car accidents.…
Federal transportation officials have been doing all they can to get states to enact tougher driving laws. The efforts aren’t paying off in Florida. According to Edmunds.com, federal transportation laws and even generous grant programs have failed to jump start Florida lawmakers into enacting road laws to help to make…
Trucking companies are getting citation after citation for putting overloaded trucks on our roadways — but that doesn’t seem to be stopping them. According to MyFoxAtlanta, these trucks are only getting tickets of $75 – $100 for traveling thousands of pounds over the national and state weight limit — 80,000…
If you remember about a month back, our Oakland Park car accident attorneys discuss the 2012 Drive Sober Get Pulled Over enforcement campaign headed by the Florida Highway Patrol. On our blog we talked about the risks associated with the holiday season and with the New Year. Well, the results…