Auto Accidents

Rainy season in Tampa is not a myth used by locals to scare visitors away during the summer. It’s real and peaks during the summer months, but August is generally the rainiest month of the year. Driving on wet road surfaces after a heavy downpour is dangerous. Of the 28,021 road crashes last year in…

A Tampa car accident may involve more than filing a claim for no-fault benefits. If you are seriously injured, your insurance may not reimburse you for all of the money damages you incurred. It may be necessary to hire a personal injury lawyer to file a lawsuit in order to negotiate a personal injury settlement…

Depending upon the circumstances, hitting a parked car may cause more embarrassment to the errant driver than damage to either vehicle. Of course, hitting a parked car while traveling at the posted speed may cause thousands of dollars in property damage and injuries to occupants of either vehicle. Knowing what to do when involved in…

Drivers who are the cause of a blind spot accident don’t expect another vehicle or person to be in their way. They just don’t see them because their full field of vision is usually blocked by part of their own vehicle. It might be blocked by a pillar next to the windshield, a pillar between…

A back and neck injury can cause excruciating pain and be extremely detrimental to physical and mental well-being. In addition, back and neck injuries can have a cascading effect, causing pain throughout the entire body and hampering mobility to extreme levels. The neck and back are crucial to protecting the spinal cord, the fragile set…

The Tampa Bay area has once again been ranked as one of the fastest growing places to live in the United States. Unfortunately, Tampa Bay, Florida, also ranks as the seventh deadliest metropolitan area in the nation in terms of pedestrian fatalities; and the city of Tampa took 31st place on a list of cities…

According to the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, 713 pedestrians died and another 6,334 were injured when struck by vehicles in 2020. The data so far for 2021reveals the death and injury rates to be slightly ahead of last year when the state had the second-highest number of pedestrian deaths in the…

As exhilarating and enjoyable as driving a motorcycle may be, crash statistics prove that it’s also a dangerous activity. Of the total number of fatalities from traffic accidents, 14% of them involved a motorcycle. A rider’s ability to control a motorcycle in all types of situations, along with knowing how to recognize risky or dangerous…

Tampa, with it’s fantastic weather and interesting places to visit, should be the perfect place to take a walk. However, its status as the eighth most dangerous place in the country for pedestrians says otherwise. A study conducted on behalf of Hillsborough County found that 77% of roads within the county have conditions, such as…

More children between the ages of 3-14 die from motor vehicle accidents than from any other cause. Crash data proves that the use of child seats reduces the risk of injury by up to 82% and by up to 45% for older children using booster seats. The use of a properly installed car seat not…