Car Accidents

• Community NewsBoy hit by car in Lehigh accident
  Oct 25, 2009

  The Florida Highway Patrol says a 3-year-old Lehigh Acres boy has been hospitalized at Lee Memorial Hospital following an accident in which he was hit by a car Saturday night, Oct. 24, 2009. It;s hard to iamgine what this little boy's parentsa re feeling right now. May Our prayers be with them, and may God intervine in their time of nee.

  According to the Florida Highway Patrol report, the boy was identified as Cassidy Sandoval. They said he was walking on the shoulder of Leonard Blvd. near Gunnery at around 8 p.m. According to the report, he walked into the patch of a car driven by Matthew Warlick, 50, also of Lehigh Acres. The report stated that the boy was thrown 100 feet after being struck. The driver of the vehicle was not injured, police said.

  Often times injuries that are sustained by children are more catastrohic than those sustained by adults becuse of the fragile nature of children's bodies.
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• 6000 accident deaths in the United States every year
  Oct 07, 2009

  West Palm Beach, Florida–The first Distracted Driving Summit held by the U.S. Department of Transportation began in Washington, D.C., on October 5th, 2009 at the Renaissance hotel located inside the District of Columbia.  The summit started off by Secretary of the Department of transportation, Ray LaHood, where in he talked about the epidemic of distracted driving that has taken the nation by storm in the past 10 years.  Distractions while driving due to text messaging, reading e-mail while driving, talking on the cell, text messaging looking at kids and trying ti discipline them while driving. Drinking soft drinks or liquor, eating food and playing with sophisticated radio is responsible for 6,000 deaths every year in the United States. Additionally, more than 515,000 drivers and passengers are injured because of distracted drivers every year. With close to 50,000 lives claimed every year in motor vehicle accidents, on our nation’s highways and roadways, at a national cost of some $300 billion dollars, government officials, automobile industry experts, and law makers are calling for swift action to help save lives.
  Naturally if you have fallen victim to a careless idiot driver, contact us at 1-800-HURT-911 and let us take out our tool case an put  it to work for you.
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• Oakland Park car wreck
  Aug 14, 2009

  OAKLAND PARK - A grandmother who was involved in a car accident which injured eight people this past Wednesday passed away at Broward General Medical Center.
  
  A newborn baby and a 7-year-old boy were riding in her car and are now listed as being in critical condition, authorities said.
  
  The Driver Linda Fulton, age 42, was driving a 2000 Saturn westbound on Northeast 56th Street when a pickup truck going north on North Andrews Avenue struck the driver's side of her car at 4:20 p.m. while visibility was still good, as reported by the Broward County Sheriff's Office said.
  
  The force of the side impact derailed the Saturn, with five passengers inside, causing it to slamm into a sign, a pole and some hedges. The impact threw a 1-month-old boy, Travis Allen, from the car. Firefighters had to pull out Fulton and Tyler Supall, 7, who were trapped inside.
  
  Latasha Fulton, 25, Clement Supall, 5, and Shaniyaa Keels, 10, were also in the Saturn but managed to get out. Latasha Fulton was taken to Broward General and remains in serious condition. Clement Supall, 5, and Shaniyaa Keels, 10 have been released.
  
  The driver of the Toyota pickup truck, Oscar Montalvan, 38, and his wife Claudia, 38, are both in the hospital with injuries that are not life-threatening. If it i determined that this accident was the truck drivers fault, he better have some decent insurance, or he is going to have a Judgment following him around for the next 20 years. 
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• Orange County Florida car crash leaves two dead!
  Jul 31, 2009

  2 Toyota cars crash on North Orange Blossom Trail causing 1 rollover.

  Orlando, FL (JusticeNewsFlash.com)–Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) was forced to close several lanes of North Orange Blossom Trail (OBT) this morning after a fatal car crash claimed the lives of two passengers. As reported by WFTV channel 9 this morning, a two-door, black Toyota Scion rolled over several times landing on its roof crushing two passengers at OBT and Pepper Mill Road.

  Police investigators and traffic homicide detectives with FHP say the driver flipped the Scion when attempting to change lanes trapping and killing two passengers underneath the car. The fatal car crash also injured one other passenger, the driver of the rollover vehicle and the driver of a white Toyota Corolla struck in the wreck. One of the passengers was seriously injured and transported to Orlando Regional Medical Center by emergency medical personnel.

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• Pensacola, FL on Saturday, June 27, 2009 A deadly automobile accident killed one man
  Jul 08, 2009

  In Pensacola, FL on Saturday, June 27, 2009 A deadly automobile accident killed one man and injured several other people. The car crash happened early Saturday evening. Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) stated thatteh accident occured because a ford truck spun out of control onto oncoming traffic near Blountstown. The Calhoun County roadway accident investigators indicated that the vehicle was driven by 28 year-old James L. White Jr. of Leesburg of Georgia. Apparently, the truck went onto the shoulder of the road and spun out of control when White over reacted. The victim car was being driven by a 40 year-old Sergio Espinoza of Blountstown.  One of the passengers, a nineteen year-old mab nemaed Jose Cruz-Ramirez, of Blountstown, was a passenger in Espinoza’s SUV and had his life stripped from him in this horrible accident.

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• Free Lecture on how to buy car insurance in Palm Beach County
  Jun 27, 2009

  Free Lecture on how to buy car insurance in Palm Beach County, offered as a public service for free. Food an beverage provided. Call 1-877-520-SURE right now to reserve your seat for the July, 2009 lectures.
  The Law Firm of Sharmin & Sharmin P.A. Located in Palm Beach County, Florida is offering a free lecture on the following:  

  Hi I’m attorney Sharmin. If you own a car you have to come tomy free seminar.  Ill teach you all about car insurance. You’ll learn about Personal Injury Protection, Uninsured motorist Insurance, Casualty Insurance, Med-pay and Bodily Injury. Food and beverage provided free of charge but Seating is limited call 1-877-520 SURE to reserve your seat at one of our four convenient locations.  Don't wait until after a car crash to learn that your did not know about insurance and were unprotected. Come & get sharminsure about your rights.

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• Miami Police Officer Dies in Turnpike Crash
  Jun 16, 2009

  A Miami-Dade police officer has died after a horrific car crash early this morning on the Turnpike.
  The officer, 23-year-old Giovanni Gonzalez, was struck on the southbound side of the road just after 4 a.m. While it is not clear how the accident happened, and if there is anyone that can be blamed for the accident, if I were the attorney retained to protect the family of this officer I would be thinking about 1. Hard damages, that means what would this officer would have been able to earn during his entire career, given his youth if a 40 year career is projected and the officer is schedule to average 42k per year, his life time earning is approximately 1.6 million. This figure  need to be sough after from all sorces to compensate his family, expecially if he left small children behind. That’s is called hard damages. Then there are additional damages for pain and suffering, such as loss of consortium tha codl be brough about by the officers loves ones.
  Several officers responded to the scene, finding the Gonzalez's patrol car severely damaged on the driver's side. Firefighters attempted to save the officer, cutting him from the twisted wreckage of his squad car, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. Gonzalez was assigned to Miami-Dade police's Kendall district.Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum issued a statement, saying: "My thoughts and prayers are with Officer Gonzalez's family, his fellow officers and those who knew him as someone dedicated to public safety.""The Miami-Dade Police Department has lost a fine public servant." McCollum said, according to the Miami Herald. It’s sad the the public lost the services  and the protection of this fine young man. All the best to his family. Eiman Sharmin Esq.,
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• June 15th I-95 in Wst Palm Beach Florida Chain Crash
  Jun 15, 2009

   

  The Florida Highway Patrol told CBS 12 that all lanes of I-95 southbound near Donald Ross Road are now open after a chain reaction accident this morning. Usually Chain reaction accidents are awful for the injured party,  not only are they more violent then ordinary accidents, but if one party is the culprit for the accident then they may not have enough insurance coverage for all who got hurt. The first accident involved two cars and then another car crashed into a tractor trailer filled with cat food, causing it to crash. They tell us cat food spilled all over the roadway.
  This all started around 12:30 a.m. Monday morning. One person was taken to St. Mary's Hospital with minor injuries. Although CBS news reports that no one else was injured, this may not be true since many spinal cord injuries lay hidden for a period of time until they become problematic causing pain and forcing the person to seek medical care.  
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• Palm Beach County Branch closure will not affect automobile accident victims
  Jun 14, 2009

  Due to large budget cuts and staff layoffs, The Palm Beach County publicly elected official Clerk and Comptroller Sharon Bock said she will close the mid-county branch office in Royal Palm Beach at the end of the month.
  
  This office is located at the Midwestern Communities Services Center, at 200 Civic Center Way and services approximately 1,000 customers a week with a variety of court and county filings, including traffic citation payments, marriage licenses, value adjustment board petitions and passports. This particular branch does not hear circuit civil cases, so it probably will not affect automobile accident victims, with the exception of traffic ticket given to the wrongdoer. Thos will have to be heard in central county, and may take longer.
   
  Sharon R. Bock said 66 of her employees would need to be fired to meet a state-mandated $7.1 million, or 18 percent, reduction in the office’s budget by July 1.
  
  “With the budget cuts, the Legislature has forced us to eliminate several practices focused on customer convenience,” she said in a news release. “Unfortunately, any cut we make affects the public in some way. We’re trying to make cuts that have the least impact.”
  
  Because no court cases take place at the mid-county branch, it is the only location that can close without impacting the rest of the judiciary, according to the news release.
  
  Still, Bock and other court clerks have predicted serious delays in the court process as a result of cutbacks. This is because all of the pro-se traffic ticket people will now have to shift themselves out to the other branches.
  
  Alternate offices (which are actual courthouses) include the main courthouse in West Palm Beach or other branch offices in Belle Glade, Delray Beach and Palm Beach Gardens.
  
  While the clerk’s office is closing in the Midwestern Communities Services Center, other government agencies, such as the Tax Collector and Property Appraiser, will remain open.
  
  The office plans to re-evaluate a mid-county location in the future.
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• Women killed Monday night in a one-car accident on Jupiter Farms Road
  Jun 08, 2009
  A 47-year-old woman was killed Monday night in a one-car accident on Jupiter Farms Road.
  According to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, Mary McManus the victim in the car accident, whose address has not yet been released probably in order to protect her family's privacy, was traveling northbound on Jupiter Farms Road approaching 175th Road North, when she lost control of the 1999 Nissan she was driving, there is no information about why she left the roadway and struck a tree. The car then rotated clockwise and overturned on its side before striking a large palm tree on the roof. It could be one of several things, perhaps a product defect in the car steering or braking system or just speed. 
  No other information has been released. 
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