Automobile Accidents

• Florida Adds Emergency Contact Database

  Shannon Weidemann | February 27, 2007 8:27 PM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL

  Sometimes with a car accident or other emergency law enforcement have a hard time finding a family member to contact. The Florida Driver and Vehicle Information Database has now been changed so that anyone with a driver's license or state identification card can add an emergency contact person and phone number.In the event that a resident is hurt or killed in a traffic crash or other accident,...

• Two Men Injured in Car Crash

  Craig Cannon | February 13, 2007 3:53 PM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL

  This was published in the Ocala Star Banner. Two area men suffered serious personal injury Tuesday morning after their pickup truck drove under the side of a large dump truck, crushing the cab and trapping the two front-seat occupants. Both men were airlifted to Shands at the University of Florida in Gainesville. One man remained in critical condition for his personal injuries while the other...

• New York Man Killed in Car Accident in Ocala

  Shannon Weidemann | January 29, 2007 10:04 PM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL

  A man from New York was killed when he pulled out onto U.S. 27 in front of an oncoming car. The unidentified 80-year-old man was driving a 2001 Buick. He pulled out of the Howard Johnson parking lot and was hit by a 2004 Chevy Avalanche driven by Michael Grosso, age 77. The driver of the Buick died on the scene. His wife, also age 80, was a passenger in the car and she was airlifted to...