Category: I-75

FDOT safety campaign to target aggressive driving • INTERSTATE 75 • Florida • Avoid CRASHES • Trucks • Semi-Tractor-Trailer • Cars

TAMPA – The Florida Department of Transportation’s Motor Carrier Compliance Office and the Center for Urban Transportation Research are teaming up to launch a Better Driver safety campaign, specifically targeting aggressive drivers on Interstate 75. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates 67% of crash fatalities and 33% of injuries involved aggressive driving, including both…

DOT Puts The Brakes On Dangerous Tractor-Trailers on Florida’s Highways and Interstate Highway 75 near Weigh Station

WILDWOOD — Officers are cracking down on the drivers of dangerous tractor-trailers that are putting lives at risk on Central Florida highways because of faulty brakes and bad tires. News 13 was there as Department of Transportation officers at a weigh station on I-75, just north of Wildwood, inspected several commercial trucks. It’s part of…

ALLIGATOR ALLEY – I-75 CRASH – Accidents due to smoke / low visibility cause serious injuries

Recently, the Florida Highway Patrol officially cited low visibility and smoke from the Big Cypress wildfire as the cause behind four separate accidents at I-75’s mile marker 79. The accidents, which involved 12 vehicles and a boat, totaled $42,000 in damages and occurred over a 30-minute span when visibility was at its worst on Alligator…

I-75 ALLIGATOR ALLEY (Everglades Parkway) CAR ACCIDENT Naples (Collier County) through Weston to Davie (Broward County) Florida

Alligator Alley is known to be one of the most dangerous roads in Florida. It has more than its share of motor vehicle accidents. Alligator Alley is a 78 mile section of Interstate 75 in South Florida connecting the southwestern and southeastern coastal areas of Florida. It was originally constructed during the late 1960s as…