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The furniture store IKEA recently opened to great fanfare in Jacksonville. However, before shopping for new furniture, customers need to be aware of a potentially deadly danger lurking in their current home furniture. The death of an 8th child has prompted Ikea to relaunch a recall effort of its "Malm" and other dressers. The dresser is...

It's about more than texting while driving A new comprehensive report published by the NHTSA showed that traffic accident fatalities are once again on the rise - in comparison with previous years. In fact, 2016 showed some of the highest accident rates since 2007. The primary cause of this increase in accidents was not due...

In recent years, auto manufacturers have been incorporating many new safety features into their vehicles. One such feature is the lane departure warning system. If a car equipped with this system travels over the yellow middle line and into the path of oncoming traffic, this system will alert the driver who can then return to...

Many Florida students have been looking forward to heading back to school. But it can be an especially perilous time on the roads, given an influx of traffic by drivers who are young, inexperienced and just learning their new routes and routines. According to the National Safety Council, more children are hit by cars near...

As noted by The Orlando Sentinel, the timber industry in Florida is booming as the demand for timber grows globally. Northern Florida is home to dozens of lumber mills and pine-straw, bark, and wood-pellet processing plants. It's a multi-billion-dollar industry with hundreds of millions of that invested in Northern Florida, where the unique soil composition,...

As more rigs take to the roads with the proliferation of the e-commerce economy shipping goods directly to doorsteps, truck accidents in Jacksonville and across the U.S. are on the rise. Although overall advancing technology is making trucks much safer (i.e., forward collision warnings, automatic braking and in-cabin cameras), there is a simple, low-tech solution...

Florida has never been an especially safe state for pedestrians. Jacksonville in particular is one of the most perilous spots, pulling in 379 pedestrian deaths from 2004 to 2014, with a Pedestrian Danger Index (pedestrian deaths relative to the number of people who walk to work in the region) at 229 - ranking it nationally as...

According to Actions News Jax, a recent motor vehicle accident in Clay County left a 20-year-old woman was seriously hurt. The young Florida woman was driving on Thunder Road near Darlene Road at approximately 4:00 AM when her vehicle struck a tree. Police indicate she was taken to Orange Park Medical Center. The crash was...

A high-profile lawsuit is a sad reminder of the pain and loss that can occur when alcohol and boating mix. The parents of two men who lost their lives in a boating accident with Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez are suing the late player's estate. All 3 men were killed when the pitcher's boat crashed...