TAMPA – According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff, a roll-over crash has killed one person and closed a stretch of road in Tampa. One person died when a Ford Explorer SUV flipped over several times just after 3 a.m. on Memorial Highway near George Road. Two others were injured an transported to local hospitals. Memorial…
ST. PETERSBURG — Two people were injured in a motorcycle accident Saturday on Interstate 375. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the driver lost control of his control of his 1998 Kawasaki motorcycle just before noon on the Interstate 375 exit ramp. The driver of the cycle was exiting from northbound Interstate 275, and struck…
ST. PETERSBURG — Four (4) people were injured when their 20-foot boat struck a sea wall. The crash was reported just after 9:30 p.m. in the waters of Tampa Bay near Shore Acres. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) and EMS were on the scene. The injured were transported to Bayfront Medical Center…
NATIONAL – In the “Wheels” blog at the New York Times, Christopher Jensen wrote, “Toyota and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a warning on Tuesday about floor mats possibly jamming accelerators on 3.8 million Toyotas. But the company and the agency have known about the problem for more than two years.” A 2007…
NATIONAL – According to the Associated Press – “Target Corporation has agreed to pay a $600,000 civil penalty for importing and selling a variety of toys with high levels of lead paint on the surface.” Target “recalled more than 500,000 Kool Toyz play sets, Anima Bamboo Collection games, and Happy Giddy gardening tools and Sunny…
HERNANDO COUNTY – According to The St. Petersburg Times – “In what local court observers are calling one of the largest verdicts they can recall, a Hernando County [FL] jury on Wednesday awarded more than $330 million in civil damages to Angela Stone, whose 13-year-old daughter, Shelby Taylor Hagman, was killed in 2007 by a…
NATIONAL – According to Bloomberg News, “Toyota Motor Corp., its units, lawyers and any other employees were ordered by a U.S. judge to preserve all documents about the ‘crashworthiness’ of its vehicles after the carmaker was accused of destroying lawsuit evidence.” The order stems from a lawsuit in which a former in-house attorney for Toyota,…
ST. PETERSBURG – According to the St. Petersburg Times, on Wednesday September 30, 2009, US District Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington certified as a class-action a suit filed by four (4) St. Petersburg, Florida, homeowners “against RAYTHEON over chemical contamination spreading beneath their homes.” That means “Raytheon now could face claims for damages from more than…
PINELLAS COUNTY – Two separate Pinellas motorcycle accidents leave one rider dead, another injured. One motorcyclist was killed and another injured in two separate crashes in Pinellas County on Wednesday September 30, 2009. The first accident occurred at the intersection of County Road 1 near San Christopher Drive in Dunedin. Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office was…
SUMTER COUNTY — According to the Florida Highway Patron, a St. Petersburg woman and her passenger were seriously injured Wednesday when the left rear tire of their Ford Explorer disintegrated on Interstate 75. The driver was flown to Orlando Regional Medical Center. The passenger was transported to Citrus Memorial Hospital in Inverness. The accident took…