Category: injured

Personal Watercraft Crash ♦ Dunedin ♦ Intracoastal Waterway ♦ Injured taken to Mease Dunedin Hospital for treatment of her accident-related injuries

trippfirm / Posted on July 4, 2009 /

DUNEDIN — A lady in her early forties was injured Saturday morning after two personal watercraft collided near the Dunedin Causeway drawbridge. Though four people were involved in the accident, only the woman in her early forties was taken to Mease Dunedin Hospital. Thankfully all for the riders were wearing their required life jackets. www.trippfirm.com

Orange County Deputy Sheriff seriously injured in Florida Turnpike Crash ♦ FHP investigates ♦ SUV ♦ Patrol car ♦ Semi-tractor trailer and car involved

trippfirm / Posted on July 4, 2009 /

ORLANDO ♦ An Orange County Sheriff’s Office deputy is in serious condition after a four-vehicle crash on Florida’s Turnpike. According to a Florida Highway Patrol report, the deputy was conducting an early morning traffic stop when the driver of a SUV veered onto the shoulder of the roadway and hit the patrol car. Upon impact,…

Two men injured in Safety Harbor construction accident

trippfirm / Posted on June 26, 2009 /

SAFETY HARBOR — At least two men were injured after falling 12 feet from a Safety Harbor scaffolding during a construction accident this morning, authorities said. The men, who fell from the scaffolding were taken to the hospital by a helicopter and ambulance. www.trippfirm.com

TEXTING AND DRIVING COULD BE DEADLY • Texting drivers’ reaction times worse than drunken drivers • Cause of serious accidents • Rear-ended by texter

trippfirm / Posted on June 25, 2009 /

STATEWIDE – Here is a WAKE UP CALL!A recent study shows that a driver that is distracted by TEXTING AND DRIVING is worse than a DRUNKEN DRIVER! Wake up FLORIDIANS! Here are the FACTS of a RECENT STUDY: A sober driver took half a second to brake A drunken driver with a blood alcohol level…

Manatee County Man charged with leaving injured woman ♦ Wanted to avoid DUI ♦ FHP arrested him

trippfirm / Posted on June 15, 2009 /

BRADENTON – A Manatee County man told authorities he left a woman who fell off the back of his pickup because he didn’t want to get a DUI. The Florida Highway Patrol says a 54-year-old man was driving his truck Thursday night when a woman standing in the bed pounded on his cab. When the…

Elderly woman injured in Sun City Center golf cart accident • SUN CITY CENTER • Hillsborough County Sheriff’s office investigating

trippfirm / Posted on June 13, 2009 /

SUN CITY CENTER – A recent golf cart accident in a Publix Super Market parking lot put an 82-year-old woman in the hospital with a leg injury, deputies say. The 82-year old woman had just parked her cart and was walking into the grocery store at 4860 Sun City Center Blvd., when a 76-year-old’s golf…

RECENT TESTS find microcars have HIGH REPAIR COSTS for low-speed collisions • SERIOUS INJURIES can also occur •

trippfirm / Posted on June 11, 2009 /

Recently, The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety reported, “the cost for repairing damage to microcars in low-speed crashes of 3 to 6 miles per hour could cost anywhere from $474 to $3,701.” Institute senior vice president Joe Nolan said bumpers should protect cars so that damages from such collisions “should cost less than the typical…

I – 4 – PLANT CITY – Hillsborough County Truck crash with car – FHP investigation – Hillsborough County Fire Rescue – Lakeland Regional Medical Center

trippfirm / Posted on June 3, 2009 /

PLANT CITY — A tractor-trailer truck Tuesday toppled over onto a car driven by a woman who fell asleep at the wheel, trapping the drivers in the wreckage and snarling traffic along Interstate 4 for hours. Both drivers escaped with only minor injuries. The driver of the car was in the center lane when she…

DRIVE THRU ACCIDENT Ι PEDESTRIAN STRUCK BY CAR Ι PARKING LOT DESIGN CAN PREVENT INJURY TO PEDESTRIANS Ι FAST FOOD • COFFEE DRIVE THRU – POOR DESIGN

trippfirm / Posted on May 13, 2009 /

Many restaurants, coffee shops and other businesses that use drive-thru pick-up or take-outs often place pedestrians unnecessarily exposed to wayward automobiles. For example, an entire group of diners waiting on benches in front of the spaces reserved for take-out parking will be crushed when the inevitable happens. In recent years, we have all heard of…

BICYCLIST Ι PEDESTRIAN Ι PARKING LOT Ι HIT & RUN Ι LARGO Ι SEMINOLE Ι MADEIRA BEACH Ι TYRONE Ι BAY PINES Ι PINELLAS PARK Ι NO HEALTH INSURANCE

trippfirm / Posted on May 12, 2009 /

The FHP said almost 5,000 crashes involving bicycles took place in Florida in the last year, with 121 people killed. Some of these bicycle crashes occurred in Seminole, Bay Pines, Largo, Indian Rocks Beach, Indian Shores, Madeira Beach, Treasure Island, Pinellas Park, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Countryside, Dunedin , Palm Harbor, Tarpon Springs, Holiday, New Port…