Only Weeks After Re-Opening from its COVID Closure After more than 19 months of being closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and supposedly taking that time to attempt to revamp some of the safety measures that were resulting in the railroad’s industry-worst death rate, Brightline trains recently resumed operations in South Florida in November. Despite…
What has been called a freak accident at an apartment complex in Venice on Florida’s West Coast several weeks ago involving a landscaper and a lawn mower ended with an on-the-job death when the landscaper drowned in a lake after he was trapped underneath the lawn mower. The details of how exactly the accident occurred…
In a South Florida story that made national news, more than 20 people were injured in a natural gas explosion as a result of a suspected gas leak that leveled the majority of a mall in Plantation in Broward County. The explosion took place over the Fourth of July weekend and destroyed dozens of nearby…
A report from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) regarding a March 1staccident in Delray Beach involving a Tesla equipped with an autonomous driving feature called Autopilot recently found that the vehicle’s system was engaged at the time of the accident and that the driver took his hands off the wheel for the last eight…
A study just released by the safety advocacy group Smart Growth America found that Florida was projected to be the most dangerous state in the country for pedestrians in 2019, with eight of the ten metropolitan areas having the highest pedestrian accident fatality rates in the Sunshine State. Central Florida featured prominently in the rankings,…
In a horrible tragedy that serves as a reminder of the dangers that worksite accidents pose to bystanders as well as employees on the worksite, a worker whose leg was severed during the demolition of a building in Miami Beach died from his injuries in the hospital more than a week after the demolition gone…
Disturbing new details have emerged regarding what exactly occurred in the last minutes prior to the late March crash in which a bicyclist was killed by an Uber self-driving vehicle as she crossed a road while wheeling her bicycle in Tempe, Arizona. The Tempe police recently released evidence that shows the company’s safety driver, who…
A 2014 Tesla Model S recently ran into a concrete wall and burst into flames in Fort Lauderdale, killing two teenagers and prompting an investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). According to a report from Bloomberg News, the teenagers were driving at a high speed when they drove off the road, slamming into…
A recent tragic accident in Delray Beach killed four tourists visiting Florida from South America. According to a report from the Sun-Sentinel regarding the crash, the deceased victims included a mother and her two young children from Mexico and her brother, who hailed from Argentina. The accident occurred when a 21-year-old driver traveling at an…
A pedestrian wheeling a bicycle across the road was recently killed by an Uber self-driving vehicle in Arizona, calling into question the safety of the company’s self-driving vehicles and its use of public roads for test-driving those vehicles. This was believed to be the first pedestrian death associated with self-driving vehicles. Prior to this accident,…
