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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.

The Florida Senate unanimously passed a bill that would make texting while driving illegal in the state. Senate Bill 52 was approved 36 to 0, and it would make texting while driving a secondary violation. This means that a motorist must have committed some other offense such as speeding before being given a ticket for texting. Supporters hope that the auto accident rate due to texting or distracted driving will drop with the passage of

A South Florida accident left five people dead after a driver ran through a red light just past midnight on Saturday, April 13. The accident took place at the intersection of Blue Heron Boulevard and the northbound I-95 exit ramp in Riviera Beach. A man driving a 2008 Mercedes failed to stop at the red light after exiting I-95, hitting a 1994 Lexus. The impact of the collision pushed two cars into an opposite lane.

An accident recently occurred on Interstate 95 in Hallandale Beach as a result of road debris. The auto accident occurred in the southbound lanes of Interstate 95 at SW 10th Street. The Florida Highway Patrol reports that a 15-foot long wood beam fell off the back of a pickup truck and smashed into the windshield of a car that was driving down the road. The piece of wood reportedly bounced on the road before piercing