A Car Hit Two Apartments in Tampa: Here’s Where It Gets Complicated

This one is unusual. A car ran into two apartment units at a Palm River community, hurting two children badly enough to hospitalize them and forcing two buildings to be evacuated. I handle enough of these vehicle-into-building cases to know the question that comes up… read more

The Many Questions Surrounding the Motorcycle Crash on Southern Boulevard in West Palm Beach

A motorcyclist died early Saturday morning after a pickup truck pulled out of a parking lot on Southern Boulevard and swept a wide right turn across every lane of traffic. The motorcycle struck the truck’s left rear, and the rider was thrown into the oncoming… read more

The 4-Vehicle Crash on Northeast 163rd Street in Miami: What Happens When a Crash Involves More Than Two Cars

An elderly woman died and four other people were hospitalized after a four-vehicle crash in North Miami Beach on Friday morning, and even the basic facts took some sorting out. The headline calls it a four-vehicle crash. A few lines later, the report says there… read more

Fatal Hit-and-Run on West Atlantic Blvd. in Margate: What Running Can Do to a Wrongful Death Case

This one landed in my inbox early this morning. A pedestrian was crossing West Atlantic Boulevard last night in Margate when he was struck by a pickup truck and killed. The driver didn’t stop. He was found this morning in Hollywood and arrested on a… read more

The Tanker Truck Crash on Florida’s Turnpike at Bird Road Raises a Different Kind of Wrongful Death Question

A tanker truck driver died Thursday morning when their truck lost control on the Turnpike near Bird Road, overturned, and hit the concrete median. From what’s been reported, there’s no other vehicle involved. That detail changes the entire shape of what a case like this… read more

The Detail That Stands Out in the US-19 Crash in Tarpon Springs Isn’t the Injuries

Three people were hurt when a Hyundai and an SUV collided at Tarpon Avenue and US-19 early Tuesday morning. That much is a fairly ordinary crash report. The detail that actually caught my attention was this: investigators still haven’t identified who was driving the Hyundai,… read more

What a Hit-and-Run Actually Changes in the Lehigh Acres ATV Crash That Hurt a 16-Year-Old

A 16-year-old was seriously hurt after an ATV and a Chevy Cruze collided at Parkdale Boulevard and Homestead Road early Sunday morning, and the Chevy driver took off before anyone could get a name. Deputies are still looking for whoever that was and, hopefully, they… read more

Why the Bicycle Crash on 15th Street East in Bradenton Deserves a Closer Look

I’m sure many people have read this type of phrasing in a news report about a crash. A bicyclist allegedly “entered the path of” a southbound Honda CR-V on 15th Street East, early Saturday morning, and didn’t survive. That phrase shows up in almost every… read more

A Dodge Challenger, a Stop Sign, and a Hit-and-Run in West Little River

A colleague sent me this one over text last night, the surveillance footage already circulating before the news even had the driver’s name attached to it. A black Dodge Challenger runs a stop sign at Northwest 84th Street and Northwest 18th Avenue in West Little… read more

The July 4th Dania Beach BMW Crash and the Legal Questions a Fatal DUI Case Raises

I heard about the Dania Beach crash the same way most of South Florida did: through a news alert on my phone on the Fourth of July, right in the middle of the holiday. A BMW jumps the median on East Dania Beach Boulevard, hits… read more

The Southwest Eighth Street Head-On in West Miami-Dade: What Nobody Knows Yet

Here’s a crash that was shared with me recently: two people hurt in a head-on crash on Southwest Eighth Street near Southwest 157th Avenue. No names, no citations, no word yet on whose lane anyone was actually in when it happened. I get asked about… read more