trippfirm

Lowspeed vehicles • Golf cart • Accident • Parking lot • Golf community • Sun City • Hillsborough County • Mainlands • Pinellas County • Pinellas Park

According to a recent article published by the INSURANCE INSTITUTE FOR HIGHWAY SAFETY, in 1998 the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) established a limited set of safety standards for low-speed vehicles (LSVs) intended to apply to vehicles used “to make short trips for shopping, social, and recreational purposes primarily within retirement or other planned…

GOLF CART CRASH • ACCIDENT with motor vehicle • SERIOUS INJURIES • no insurance • WalMart PARKING LOT • Freedom Park • Pinellas Park • Mainlands •

PINELLAS COUNTY – The City of Pinellas Park is considering allowing golf carts to be legal transportation on some Pinellas Park streets if a new ordinance is passed by the city council. Pinellas Park leaders have drafted an ordinance to turn Mainlands Boulevard, 40th Street and 102nd Avenue into golf cart-friendly streets. Some area residents…

The New / Safer Belleair Beach Causeway Bridge opens for traffic • Pedestrians and bicyclists will have to wait until November 1 to use the bridge

BELLEAIR BEACH – The new Belleair Beach Causeway Bridge opened to traffic just after 5 a.m. on May 29, 2009. The project, which began in March 2007, is on schedule and on budget. It is estimated that between 15,000 and 18,000 vehicles a day cross the Belleair Beach Causeway Bridge and that is expected to…

I-275 ROLLOVER ACCIDENT injures woman, baby between Bearss and S.R. 54 • Lutz • Wesley Chapel • Land O’ Lakes • FLORIDA

A woman and a baby were injured when their pickup left the road on Interstate 275 about two miles north of Bearss Avenue and rolled over several times. The 25-year-old woman was seriously injured, but a 4-month-old baby in the vehicle received only minor injuries when the woman lost control of her pickup truck on…

FHP Reports • Valrico woman hit by car • killed while crossing S.R. 60 • Eastern Hillsborough County

A 21-year-old woman was struck and killed while trying to cross State Road 60 early this morning, the Florida Highway Patrol said. The pedestrian of Valrico was trying to cross the eastbound lanes of S.R. 60 from the center grass median when she was hit by a man driving a Dodge Dakota pickup truck about…

When misused • FIREWORKS CAN CAUSE • INJURIES • Severe burns • amputations • blindness • and even DEATH • during a 4th of July Celebration •

Everyone enjoys fireworks, particularly in the festive Fourth of July season. But some devices can be dangerous. The National Council on Fireworks Safety recommends that you only buy consumer fireworks from a licensed store or stand. Never buy firework devices from an individual’s house, or out of someone’s car. Such fireworks are likely to be…

TEEN RECKLESS DRIVING • SPEAK UP • SEMINOLE HIGH • LARGO HIGH • OSCEOLA HIGH • PINELLAS PARK HIGH • KESWICK CHRISTIAN • INDIAN ROCKS CHRISTIAN • CARS

FOR THE AMERICAN TEENAGER the automobile is a source of freedom and independence, but at WHAT PRICE? Reckless driving is the #1 killer of 15-20 year olds. Why speak up? Because Speaking up could save your life. Sixteen year olds are three times more likely to die in a car crash! The leading cause of…

MOTORCYCLE CRASH RESULTING IN SERIOUS INJURY or DEATH can be AVOIDED • PINELLAS • PASCO • POLK • HILLSBOROUGH • MANATEE • SARASOTA • HERNANDO • CITRUS

Among all motor vehicles, motorcycles are the most vulnerable on the road. Because motorcycles do not have seat belts, you can be thrown off your seat in a crash, which can result in serious injury or even death. Imagine your chance for survival if a truck strikes you, or if you strike it. Hitting a…

TICKETING AGGRESSIVE CARS TRUCKS • CMV-related crashes • fatalities injuries • PINELLAS • PASCO • POLK • HILLSBOROUGH • MANATEE • SARASOTA • HERNANDO

Nationally in 2007, 4,808 people died in large truck crashes. To help reduce crashes and fatalities, Congress directed the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to work together to educate motorists on how to share the road safely with commercial motor vehicles (CMVs). The result of this…