A Jupiter police officer was taken to an area hospital in serious condition after a collision on I-95. The car crash was said to have been caused by a driver who fell asleep at the wheel. The 34-year-old police officer was leaving the county jail at the time of the accident. According to authorities, the accident occurred on the northbound side of I-95 just beyond the Military Trail exit. The 30-year-old driver was traveling north

Florida residents who use small SUVs will likely find recent safety test results to be important. Safety experts have found that serious flaws were exposed in a tougher crash test, revealing consumer vulnerability in the event of an auto accident. The particular crash mode that is under consideration is called small overlap. This type of accident causes about 25 percent of deaths and serious injuries during frontal collision events. While these incidents only involve a

A Miami waiter faces charges for his part in a vehicle accident that killed a passenger and harmed a cab driver. During the accident, the car crossed multiple lanes and hit the cab. The accused driver and the cab driver were taken to nearby hospitals for serious injuries. The Florida Highway Patrol has determined that both the waiter and his passenger had been drinking and weren’t wearing their seat belts during the accident. They had

Three people were injured in an accident in Florida that involved a car turning in front of two motorcycles. The driver of the car, an 83-year-old man, was reportedly intoxicated when he turned in front of two oncoming motorcycles at the intersection of Mary Lane. The first motorcycle was a Harley Davidson that was driven by a 53-year-old man and had a 40-year-old woman riding as a passenger. That motorcycle struck the right rear of

A busy Miami street was the scene of a serious wreck that sent several vehicles into a bus stop and sent five people to the hospital. The auto accident involved a total of seven vehicles at the intersection of LeJeune Road and Flagler Street. Cars were waiting at a red light on the northbound side of the street when a Miami-Dade Transit pickup truck ran through the intersection and hit several of the vehicles.

Two women involved in a wreck last Thursday in Santa Rosa County, Florida, were injured and in critical condition. Two children were also injured in the wreck and taken to the hospital. The five-year-old is said to be in serious condition, and the one-year-old suffered from minor injuries. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the 25-year-old woman driving one of the vehicles was traveling west on Quintette Road when she was hit head-on by the

An SUV traveling in the wrong direction on Florida’s Interstate 95 caused an accident involving several vehicles, including one that was set ablaze. The burning vehicle, a pickup truck, was clipped by an SUV as it was driving into oncoming traffic. The report did not say if any car accident victim in this crash was seriously injured. Witnesses report the black Hyundai Santa Fe SUV was southbound in the interstate’s northbound lanes. Numerous vehicles maneuvered

Many accidents in Florida caused by distracted driving are not reported properly, leading people to believe the issue of cellphone usage while driving is not as severe as it is. Research done by the National Safety Council shows that when a cellphone or distracted driving is the cause of a car accident, it is not necessarily recorded this way in police databases. The study looked at fatal collisions that occurred in 2009, 2010 and 2011

Florida highways may soon be a little safer with a new voluntary guideline that was initiated by the federal government on April 23. This policy requests that automakers begin equipping their vehicles with devices that require only momentary glances to operate. By replacing current devices with new automated or voice-activated units, the occurrence of distracted driving related accidents and catastrophic injuries is expected to fall sharply.