Personal Injury

A retired correspondent for ABC News was killed in a crash while riding his bicycle in Florida Monday. News4Jax.com reports that 77-year-old Tim O’Brien was involved in a crash near Mickler’s Landing in Ponte Vedra Beach. According to Florida Highway Patrol, a pickup truck was traveling on the left of State Road A1A at about 1:30…

DORAL, FL – A police officer and two civilians were hospitalized after their vehicles collided at a Doral intersection on Friday, WSVN reports. The incident occurred at Northwest 41st Street and 114th Avenue when a Miami-Dade Police Department cruiser collided with a Ford pickup truck. Emergency responders from several different departments arrived at the scene…

An advisor to Dan Congressman Lipinski was killed in a Thanksgiving Day crash in Southwest Florida last week. ABC7Chicago.com reports that Zachary Plantz was traveling to Naples, Florida for a charity marathon on Thanksgiving Day when he was killed in the crash. NBC-2.com reports that Plantz was driving a Mercedes Benz southbound on U.S. 41 when…

Earlier this week we blogged that 30-year-old NASCAR crew member William “Rowdy” Harrell and his wife were killed in a car crash in the Florida Keys. New information indicates that Harrell and his wife were on their honeymoon when the crash occurred. They had married on November 22. FoxNews.com reports that the couple was driving…

Florida is mourning the death of a NASCAR crew member and his wife after the pair were killed in a car crash on Tuesday night. NASCAR.com reports that 30-year-old William “Rowdy” Harrell and his 23-year-old wife were driving a 2020 Toyota Corolla in Lower Matecumbe Key when they collided with a Ford pick-up truck. Though the…

General Motors has announced that it will recall 7 million Takata airbags due to a defect in the airbags’ inflators. The recall covers certain pickup truck and SUV models, including 6 million vehicles in the United States and a total of 7 million across the globe. ABCNews.go.com reports that GM has been working with the…

A crash on I-95 over the weekend ignited a fireball and left two women severely injured.  WSVN.com reports that the crash occurred near I-95 and State Road 84 when a red car struck a guardrail and burst into flames. The crash left two women trapped inside the severely damaged vehicle. Florida Highway Patrol arrived on…

A Boca Raton, Florida couple was found mysteriously drowned near a boat in a Palm Beach County wetland last weekend.   DailyMail.co.uk reports that 76-year-old James Adams III and his wife 76-year-old Paula Adams were found floating in a body of water in Palm Beach County’s Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge last Saturday. The couple was…

A student at Florida State University was killed this week when he was the victim of a hit-and-run crash. Tallahassee.com reports that Blake Bennett was killed on W. Pensacola St. by a driver who authorities believe was driving at a high rate of speed. Apparently, Bennett had been practicing with another colleague at an apartment…

The Boy Scouts of America is facing nearly 90,000 sex abuse claims as a Monday deadline neared to submit claims against the organization. NBCNews.com reports that as the 5:00 p.m. Monday deadline approached, the number of cases filed had already surpassed 88,500.  The vast majority of the claims are from incidents that occurred in the…

General Motors is recalling approximately 68,667 vehicles after the company received multiple reports of battery fires. TheVerge.com reports that General Motors is recalling Chevy Bolt model vehicles manufactured between 2017 and 2019 due to numerous reports of battery fires in the vehicles. There have been at least five such fires, which all involved batteries that…

A man who has been convicted in a fatal 2013 car crash claims that he was drunk when he rented the vehicle that was later involved in the crash.  TampaBay.com reports that in March 2013 Felix Luis C. Rodriguez rented a vehicle from Enterprise Rent-A-Car business at 5402 N Nebraska Ave. in Tampa. Hours after renting…

A teen woman is dead following a fall from an automobile on Wednesday. New-press.com reports that the 18-year-old victim was on the trunk of a car being driven by a 15-year-old girl in Lehigh Acres on Wednesday at about 6:10 p.m. Apparently, as the vehicle traveled on Maple Avenue North near East Penn Road the…

A Florida resident was killed in a crash on Alligator Alley in a single-vehicle crash on Monday. Patch.com reports that the crash occurred at about 8:27 a.m. on I-75 near mile marker 37. The 57-year-old victim, from Clewiston, was driving a pickup truck when he suddenly veered off the road and into a canal. The…

General Motors is recalling approximately 194,105 vehicles due to a defect that can cause the automobiles to lose power, and even catch fire, while moving. ConsumerReports.com reports that the recalled models include “2018 and 2019 Chevrolet Cruze, 2018 Chevrolet Malibu, and 2018 and 2019 Buick Lacrosse vehicles.” Some other SUV models are also subject to recall…

Volvo is recalling approximately 54,000 vehicles after a driver was killed by an airbag defect in one of the company’s automobile models. Reuters.com reports that the models subject to recall include 2001-2003 model S80 and S60. The vehicles are being recalled because they were manufactured with airbags that can rupture, ejecting dangerous metal shrapnel that can…