A 41-year-old Georgia woman riding shotgun in a 1982 Chevrolet pickup was critically injured in a single-vehicle crash in Levy County near Morriston, Florida early Saturday after the driver supposedly fell asleep at the wheel. The driver, a 44-year-old Ocala man was seriously injured in the crash. According to the…
An 18-year-old University of Florida freshman baseball player was injured Sept. 27 after his scooter struck a car on the Alachua County campus. The student was ejected from his scooter after colliding with a BMW 525i. Both motorists were supposedly attempting to make a left-hand turn when the man’s scooter…
A 46-year-old Hudson, Florida man has been charged in a December accident that killed a woman and left a man with serious brain injuries. The driver was allegedly intoxicated when he crashed his 2004 Lincoln sedan into a moped around 9:30 p.m. on Dec. 15. According to Tampabay.com, the impact…
A 54-year-old Tampa, Florida man is accused of partaking in some angry and aggressive driving after work on Monday afternoon. According to reports, the man decided to take matters into his own hands because he was upset about “getting run off the road.” According to WTSP.com, the man rammed a…
The family of a double-amputee veteran who died after being ejected from a roller coaster at the Darien Lake amusement park filed a wrongful death lawsuit on Friday against two companies associated with the park. The 29-year-old resident of Gowanda, New York was allowed to board a 208-foot-high roller coaster…
Universal Orlando has supposedly stopped simultaneously launching a pair of intertwined roller coasters that make up the ride “Dragon Challenge,” formerly known as “Dueling Dragons,” at Universal’s Islands of Adventure. The theme park took action following two recent accidents within two weeks of one another where guests were struck by…
Within the last five years, nearly 10 residents at The Villages in Sumter County, FL have been killed in golf cart-related accidents. Injuries caused by golf cart and other recreational vehicle accidents can include amputations, fractures, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord paralysis and death. A resident of The Villages died…
A 20-year-old Inverness, FL woman was killed in an all-terrain-vehicle accident Friday afternoon in Crystal River after the driver allegedly lost control of the vehicle, causing it to flip. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the woman’s 22-year-old boyfriend was driving the 2010 Polaris ATV around 4 p.m. in a…
A new study by doctors at the Georgia Health Sciences University has shown that golf cart injuries are a leading cause of serious head trauma across the country. The study was published in June and identified a total of 68 patients treated for golf cart-related injuries from 2000 to 2009…
Daytona Beach Shores police confirmed a two-year-old boy drowned at a hotel pool yesterday shortly after noon. The boy was apparently surrounded by many people in the pool, but went undetected underwater for nine minutes. The boy was whisked out of the pool and transported to Halifax Health Medical Center…