Car Accidents

One person has been killed and nine others have been seriously injured after a driver lost control of a 15-passenger van. Although the five-car crash was devastating, several witnesses who stopped to help the accident victims may have prevented more casualties from happening. The fatal accident occurred Tuesday morning in West Miami-Dade. According to reports, the driver of a large van suddenly lost control of the vehicle while traveling westbound on the Dolphin Expressway. As

Toyota announced last week that the company is recalling 214,000 RAV4s from the 2007-8 model years and 94,000 Highlander and Highlander Hybrids from the 2008 model year. The automaker has decided to recall the vehicles for defective airbags that could potentially injure passengers and drivers. Although the recall was just announced last week, Toyota first discovered a problem with some of its models’ airbags in 2007. The vehicles recalled last week all have an airbag

A woman was killed and three others were injured in an accident on Tuesday after a vehicle was traveling on the wrong side of a Florida road. The Florida Highway Patrol has been investigating the fatal accident and troopers have commented that they believe alcohol was a factor in the incident. According to reports, a 28-year-old Florida man was traveling north in the southbound lanes of State Road 9A around 1:20 a.m. The man was

The Florida Highway Patrol says that brake failure is a common reason given for the cause of car accidents. In the majority of cases, however, the brakes check out in good working condition. An Orange County deputy recently crashed head-on into a van. The deputy was heading southbound, but he drove into the northbound lanes, resulting in the accident. The Florida deputy claimed that his brakes failed as his car continued driving into oncoming traffic.

Minor car accidents happen every day on our Miami roads. However, a driver’s slightest act of negligence can result in a serious accident, putting the lives of many in danger. Last week one truck caused a series of 11 car accidents in Miami that sent several injured individuals to the hospital. The series of crashes occurred on Mar. 27 on Interstate 95 near the Northwest 79th Street exit. According to a spokesman for the Florida

A 21-year-old fine arts student at Carnegie Mellon University was killed last week in a fatal car crash in Florida. Four other passengers in the vehicle were injured and the Florida Highway Patrol has been investigating the incident to determine if the driver fell asleep at the wheel. The fatal car accident occurred Friday, Mar. 25 on Interstate 95. Nine students had left the CMU campus on Thursday evening in two separate vehicles. The group

Rear-end collisions happen on a daily basis on our Florida roads. Typically the collisions happen on city roads when vehicles are not traveling at high speeds. Usually a driver misjudges stopping distance and bumps the vehicle ahead of them. These collisions tend to be minor and the drivers quickly exchange insurance information so that they can continue on to their destinations. However, rear-end accidents can be very serious and deadly when one vehicle is traveling

According to the Florida Motorcycle Safety Coalition, 60 percent of motorcycle crashes involving motor-vehicles in Florida are caused by the driver of the other vehicle. With Bike Week beginning today in Daytona Beach, AAA and the coalition want to remind drivers on Florida roads to take caution and be aware of motorcyclists on the roads.

The family of the man who was struck and killed by a vehicle during a Walk for Tibet event last week has finally spoken out about the tragedy. Jigme Norbu, the nephew of the Dalai Lama was killed on a Florida highway on Feb. 14 while participating in a 300-mile walk to raise awareness of Tibet’s fight for independence. Family and friends remembered the man as a “freedom fighter” and “a patriot.”

The Insurance Institute of Highway Safety revealed results last week from a study that analyzed the impact red-light cameras had on the number of accidents that occurred at busy intersections. The study was conducted from 2004 through 2008 in 14 of some of the nation’s largest cities. Each city installed a number of red-light enforcement cameras at intersections to track if the presence of the cameras would reduce the number of accidents caused by drivers