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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...

Through March 9 of this year, commercial vehicle enforcement troopers from the Florida Highway Patrol will be taking part in the Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks (TACT) campaigns. Troopers will be on the lookout for aggressive driving behaviors including unsafe lane changes, speeding and following too closely. Time and again, our attorneys have seen this...

Illegal parking, hours of service violations lead to more accidents Commercial trucks carry over 80 percent of freight in the Sunshine State, which means they're an everyday sight on our roads and highways. For decades, we've understood how important it is for truck drivers to be awake and alert behind the wheel. An exhausted trucker...

  Nearly 5,000 motorcyclists were killed in accidents in 2015, an 8.3 percent spike over the previous year, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). And according to the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), eight million motorcycles are registered in this country. On a per-mile basis, motorcyclists are almost 16 times more likely...