Police are on the lookout for a motorist in Jupiter who fatally struck and killed a pedestrian at 10:00 p.m. on a recent Friday night while attempting to flee from police. According to a report regarding the incident from the local ABC News affiliate, police were attempting to perform a traffic stop when the car…
As any pedestrian in Florida knows, the Sunshine State is a dangerous place to be a pedestrian. This was recently confirmed in a study by safety organization Smart Growth America which looked at pedestrian deaths across the country. Smart Growth America’s recently completed “Dangerous by Design” study measured the danger to pedestrians of both every…
An issue that has gotten much publicity lately as a result of the death of NFL quarterback Dwayne Haskins on April 9th on I-595 in Broward County is the issue of pedestrian deaths along limited access roads like freeways and highways in the Sunshine State, particularly in South Florida. Recent media reports have disclosed that,…
Even this early in the year, the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) is already predicting a sharp rise in the number of accidents in Florida in 2022 as compared to 2021. There were over 400,000 accidents in Florida in 2021, with more than 3,700 fatalities that year according to FHP data. The data is particularly disturbing…
A bus stop in Royal Palm Beach where two Royal Palm Beach high school students recently died from their injuries suffered when a motorist lost control of his vehicle and hit a crowd of students waiting for the bus, from which two other students remain hospitalized for their injuries, has recently been relocated by the school district. The…
NFL player Dwayne Haskins, a pedestrian, was recently tragically killed on a South Florida highway under circumstances that remain unclear. Haskins, who was only 24 years old and was in South Florida to train in the off-season with other members of the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers, was attempting to cross the westbound lanes of I-595 near…
Many South Florida intersections permit motorists to turn right on red. This is one reason that South Florida pedestrians know it is necessary to be careful when crossing an intersection, even when the pedestrian has a walk signal and thus the right of way. Many Florida drivers may simply ignore the requirement under Florida law…
If you are jaywalking and injured by a motorist, can you still recover from the motorist for your injuries? Consider the following scenario. You are crossing the street, phone pressed to your ear on an important work call after leaving a customer meeting that ran extremely late. There are pedestrians all over the place, as…
One of the most dangerous situations for a pedestrian in Florida is attempting to cross an intersection where vehicles are permitted to turn right on red, even where the pedestrian may have both a walk signal and a crosswalk, and thus the right of way. At intersections where they intend to turn right, many drivers…
Any pedestrian who has ever tried to cross the road at a Florida intersection knows the hazards they face even where the pedestrian has the right of way in a state where drivers simply believe they always have the right of way. Cars turning right at stop lights that are red do not have the…
