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• Two Killed in Crash with Semi

  Craig Cannon | April 28, 2007 8:29 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents

  Two Ocala women who had just left a bar died in a fiery head-on collision with a tractor-trailer. The women were driving on the wrong side of U.S. 301. The collision occurred just before 11 p.m. two miles south of Citra. When firefighters arrived on the scene, they saw flames shooting 20 to 25 feet in the air. The truck and the Jeep Wrangler the two women were in were engulfed in fire.The...

• Woman Killed by Van

  Craig Cannon | April 27, 2007 7:48 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  A New Smyrna Beach woman was killed Wednesday afternoon after getting off a Votran bus on South Dixie Freeway. Shelby Kane, 21, was pronounced dead at the scene. Witnesses said Kane had just gotten off a southbound Votran bus and was crossing the four-lane street when she was hit by a van. Kane was apparently headed to the New Smyrna Beach Regional Library, when the crash occurred. A...

• Hit and Run Driver Leaves Ocala Teen in Coma

  Shannon Weidemann | April 26, 2007 2:27 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  A 14-year-old girl from Ocala was hit by a car while walking on her street. The accident left her in a coma. The driver of the car did not stop and fled the scene. The police believe she was hit by the side view mirror of the car. Another driver was able to provide police a description of the car. Florida Highway Patrol troopers said they believed the car was missing a windshield wiper and...

• No Penalty for Nursing Home Abuse

  Craig Cannon | April 25, 2007 8:43 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

  Federal health officials impose only minimal penalties on nursing homes repeatedly cited for mistreatment and abuse of patients. As a result, some nursing homes go in and out of compliance with federal standards. Those nursing homes pose a continued threat to the health and safety of patients."Some of these homes repeatedly harmed residents over a six-year period and yet remain in the Medicare...

• Traffic Signals to Prevent Car Accidents

  Craig Cannon | April 20, 2007 8:28 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  As a result of concerns over car traffic conditions in The Villages, a community development district board is openly in favor of installing traffic signals at the intersection of Morse Boulevard and San Marino Drive. The board expressed disappointment when professional traffic engineers recommended not to install traffic signals at the intersection. All five board members are concerned about...

• Motorcyclist's Death Blamed on Drunk Driver

  Craig Cannon | April 18, 2007 10:13 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Wrongful Death

  On October 19, 2006, the night before the official start of Biketoberfest, Clifford L.R. Atkinson, 68, was killed when his motorcycle collided head-on with a car on State Road 100 in Flagler County west of Bunnell. After completing its investigation, the Florida Highway Patrol is blaming the driver of the oncoming car, Bunnell resident Michelle K. Bohn, 36. Bohn was driving west when she crossed...

• Tort Reform Hurts Injured

  Craig Cannon | April 17, 2007 8:24 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Tort reform hurts everyone - not just the injured. Just because you have not been injured in a car accident or at work does not mean that you never will be. If you are injured do you want your ability to be compensated for that injury to be significantly limited? Well, Tort Reform does.Under the direction of former Governor Jeb Bush, the Florida legislature implemented a widespread attack on...

• Two Injured in Crash

  Craig Cannon | April 12, 2007 9:05 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Two men were seriously injured after a head-on collision on County Road 484 in Marion County. Both men were taken by ambulance to Shands Hospital in Gainesville for treatment. The crash happened near Marion Oaks on County Road 484. Traffic was blocked for two hours while rescue workers cleaned debris off the road.Jonathan Jones, of Dunnellon, was traveling west in a red GMC Sonoma pickup...

• Pool Safety

  Craig Cannon | April 10, 2007 11:35 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Wrongful Death

  A young boy drowned in his neighbor's pool because the neighbor did not have a child proof barrier around their pool. The child wandered into the neighbor's yard and fell into the pool. The boy was discovered some time later by his mother who began to perform resuscitation on him until rescue personal could arrive on the scene. Although the rescue personnel tried to save him he was pronounced...

• Neck Injuries in Car Crash Tests

  Craig Cannon | April 05, 2007 10:21 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Head restraints in several passenger vehicles provided marginal or poor protection against neck injuries and whiplash, the insurance industry reported today in new crash test results. Only 22 of 75 vehicles tested in a simulated rear crash at 20 miles per hour received the top score of good from the Virginia-based Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The vehicles were tested on a crash...

• Woman Killed by Semi-Truck Wheel Near Ocala

  Shannon Weidemann | April 04, 2007 9:49 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents

  A 30-year-old woman was killed when the car she was a passenger in was hit by a tire from a semi-truck. The accident happened early Monday morning on I-75 outside of Ocala. The car was headed north when the front wheels on a semi-truck heading south broke off the truck and came across the median. The semi-truck driver did not stop.Lt. Mike Thomas said the truck driver stopped at a Petro Truck...

• Crash Kills Wife

  Craig Cannon | April 03, 2007 5:07 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Margaret Ann McGuire a resdient of Palm Coast and the wife of former police union executive and one-time Flagler County Commissioner Pat McGuire -- died Friday in a traffic accident on U.S. 1 in Palm Coast. Mrs. McGuire was killed when her car hit the back of a trailer being pulled by a dump truck. At the time of the crash the dump truck was trying to make a U-turn on U.S. 1 just past Seminole...