Everyday items, such as hand sanitizer, urine, champagne, fried potatoes, napkins and a slew of other substances have become hazards that are being blamed for numerous slip and fall accident injuries and the basis for various lawsuits being filed in Hillsborough and Pinellas County courts. This recent string of lawsuits…
A 24-year-old Maryland man on a cross-country bike trip to raise money for hearing loss was forced to put the last leg of his more than 10,000-mile trek on hold after he was struck by a semi-trailer truck earlier this month. The man was biking with his cousin on a…
A 22-year-old man was killed Tuesday morning after a pickup truck struck him as he tried to bike across a road, according to authorities. The Plant City man was apparently improperly crossing the southbound lane of N Park Road around 11:15 a.m. when he was hit by a 2011 Chevrolet…
A street race across the Courtney Campbell Causeway resulted in a smashup with a Tampa police cruiser late Sunday night, ultimately closing the westbound side of the bridge until the early hours of the morning. According to reports, a black two-door car was travelling west across the Causeway at a…
An 8-year-old Bradenton girl was killed in a gruesome crash in Manatee County on Sunday. Officials believe the crash occurred east of I-75 on State Road 70, just west of Curtis Road around 4 p.m. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a SUV lost control and drove over a median,…
A wrong-way driving accident seriously injured two people and closed the southbound lanes of the Howard Frankland Bridge earlier this month. The crash happened just after 6 a.m. on July 14. According to the Florida Highway patrol, a 21-year-old Plant City woman entered I-275 driving a 2012 Scion north in…
A 24-year-old St. Petersburg man was seriously injured Thursday after he lost control of a motorcycle he was driving on 36th Avenue North. St. Petersburg police said the man was driving a 2003 Honda motorcycle in the 4700 block of 36th Avenue North early Thursday afternoon when he tried to…
Road rage is a term that is commonly used to describe an aggressive or very angry driver. An excessively aggressive driver is much more likely to be involved in a car accident than a driver that remains calm and collected. Aggressive driving is considered negligent driving because drivers showing signs…
A two-year-old girl who managed to crawl through a doggie door and fall into a backyard swimming pool Friday night in Pinellas Park died on Sunday from near-drowning injuries. The girl passed away around 8:30 a.m. on Sunday morning at All Children’s Hospital, according to Pinellas Park police. A family…
Three people were injured this weekend after a staircase on the side of a home collapsed while they were standing on it. Two adults and a child were standing on the metal staircase that rose two stories on Saturday, when it collapsed after the legs supporting it gave out. The…