OSCEOLA | ORANGE – Road debris can cause serious Orlando | Kissimmee car accidents on Interstate Highways. The Road Rangers do a good job in attempting to keep the highway free of fallen debris. However, sometimes debris from vehicles, auto parts that have come off a truck or another motor vehicle, garbage from waste haulers, and materials left…
NATIONAL – There are approximately 5,000 deaths, 100,000 injuries, and 500,000 trucking accidents every year. Trucking accidents are more likely to cause serious injury because trucks are bigger. A commercial tractor-trailer can weigh over 80,000 pounds, while an average passenger car weighs around 3,000 pounds. Thus, tractor trailer accidents often result in serious or fatal…
TAMPA – A motorcyclist died Wednesday night after riding between stopped cars on Interstate 4. According the the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) the cyclist lost control of his bike and sliding beneath a moving tow truck. The motorcyclist who was not wearing a helmet died at the scene. The crash remains under investigation.
Hillsborough / Polk County — UPDATE — Fifty (50) crashes on three major highways involving 131 vehicles with more than a dozen people sent to hospitals. It all happened over a five-hour period on a Sunday afternoon. The FHP cites wet roads and heavy traffic as the common causes of these accidents. Just after 3:00…
POLK COUNTY – A multivehicle crash closed one lane of Interstate 4 westbound at U.S. 27 on Sunday afternoon, backing up traffic for six miles. The first of 23 crashes happened at 4:43 p.m. and caused a chain reaction. Altogether, 48 vehicles were involved, the Florida Highway Patrol reported. FHP officials said there weren’t any…
SEMINOLE COUNTY — A crash on Interstate 4 in Seminole County shut down all eastbound lanes for more than an hour early Saturday morning. Two cars collided around 4:45 a.m. just past the State Road 434 exit in Longwood. According to Seminole County Fire and Rescue, one person was slightly entrapped in one of the…
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY – West bound I-4 was closed for several hours when a semi-tractor-trailer slammed into the back of a stopped car pushing it into a FHP – Trooper’s car. The trooper was there in his car, with his lights on, to make sure motorists slowed down for road construction in the area. The impact…
ORANGE COUNTY – Two people were in critical condition Sunday morning after the driver of a pick-up truck lost control on Interstate 4 and crashed into the concrete barrier. The crash shut down Interstate 4 for a few hours and sent both the driver of the vehicle and a passenger to the hospital. Witnesses told…
ORLANDO – Sunday, June 7, 2009 – Three people were hurt and one man arrested after police said he lost control and caused a 10-car pileup on Interstate 4 early Sunday. Police said the man lost control of his car and crashed around 3 a.m. Sunday at the Amelia Street exit of I-4 in downtown…
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, troopers are reporting multiple crashes and delays along roadways in Orange, Osceola, Polk, Seminole, Volusia and Brevard counties this morning — possibly connected to the severe weather conditions. The combination of wet roads and heavy traffic is the genesis of traffic accidents that sometimes can result in serious injury…