Jacksonville Injury Attorney Blog

A Flagler County jury returned a $5.1 million verdict in a wrongful death case resulting from a fatal trucking accident. A tractor trailer struck a husband and wife driving a minivan. The accident happened at a rural intersection and the plaintiff claimed that the truck driver ran a stop sign.

The wife was killed instantly and the husband suffered personal injuries including a pelvic fracture. The two had recently retired and moved to Palm Coast, Florida, located about one hour south of Jacksonville.

In wrongful death truck accident cases such as this, it is important that the attorney for the plaintiff thoroughly investigate the driver and the employer's decisions regarding hiring and retaining the driver. In addition, it is important to determine how many hours the trucker had been driving in order to determine if federal laws limiting the number of hours a driver can work in a given time period were violated.

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Last night, a pedestrian was struck by a sport-utility vehicle at a Jacksonville Northside intersection. The SUV was traveling on North Main Street near 53rd Street when the man was struck. It was raining at the time of the accident.

The victim was taken to Shands Jacksonville Medical Center with life-threatening personal injuries. A relative told the Times-Union that he died.

Car accidents involving pedestrians seem are far too common in the Jacksonville area. Of course, these types of accidents cause devastating if not fatal injuries to a pedestrian.

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This morning, on I-95 near downtown Jacksonville, one car accident lead to two more. After an initial vehicle accident, a police officer was on the scene. A work truck then collided with the officer's patrol car. Following that, an ambulance following the work truck crashed and rolled over.

The ambulance was carrying a patient, whose status is unknown. However the police officer and three others suffered personal injuries and were taken to a Jacksonville hospital.

Auto accidents such as this bring two things to mind. First, Florida law requires drivers to move out of the lane closest to a police vehicle that is stopped on the side of the road. Second, all drivers must maintain a safe distance behind cars in front of them in the event of sudden stops.

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This afternoon, a fire broke out in an Arlington apartment complex in Jacksonville, Florida. The roof collapsed killing one person and causing personal injuries to two others. Jacksonville Fire and Rescue responded and called it a three-alarm fire. The cause of the fire has not yet been reported.

Fires can lead to personal injury and wrongful death cases if the fire was caused by the negligence of others. In an apartment complex, such negligence could result from improper wiring, lack of sprinkler systems, lack of fire extinguishers or propane gas leaks.

As Jacksonville injury lawyers, we have handled cases involving personal injuries resulting from fires. Burns can cause some of the most serious and life altering injuries possible.

It is important that people always make sure they have fire extinguishers on hand and that they have a plan of escape in case of fire. Persons living on a second or higher floor should have a second way of leaving the building in case a stairwell is engulfed in flames. We have seen burn cases resulting from liquid propane (LP) gas, faulty wiring, cooking, water heaters set too high, and space heaters.

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Late last night, an eighteen year old woman lost control of her car and struck the concrete wall that lines the J. Turner Butler Bridge over the Intracoastal Waterway in Jacksonville, Florida. She left the immediate area of her car.

A seventeen year old driver then hit her car. He was not wearing his seatbelt and died at the scene. A passenger in his car was wearing his seatbelt and suffered serious personal injuries. That passenger was taken to Shands Jacksonville Medical Center.

This provides us yet another example of one person in a car without a seatbelt being more seriously injured than another who was seatbelted during a car accident. Many of our Jacksonville Injury Attorney blog entries below highlight this all too familar occurrence. Seatbelts save lives.

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