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A man died in a traffic crash in Jupiter just after midnight on Saturday, May 12, 2012, after he allegedly ran a red light and drove into the path of an oncoming car.
The crash occurred at the intersection of Central Boulevard and Indiantown Road.
Jupiter Police say that the preliminary investigation revealed that 30-year-old Anthony Dale Evans was headed [...]
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2 children, a man and woman died in an early morning accident involving a wrong-way driver in Palm City this morning, May 14, 2012.
Florida Highway Patrol identified Carolyn Ramos, 41, of Port Saint Lucie as the driver who was driving the wrong way in the northbound lanes of I-95, slamming her Jeep into a Chevy pick-up [...]
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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) rules on hours of service for truck drivers maintains an 11-hour daily drive limit, despite several Public Safety Awareness groups lobbying for a 10-hour driving limit for greater highway safety.
According to the FMSCA, more than 4,000 people are killed every year in accidents involving trucks. Driver fatigue is [...]
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According to a recent report by the Office of the Inspector General at HHS, most medical errors are not reported by hospital staff. These errors include medication mistakes, severe bedsores, infections, delirium from overuse of painkillers, and excessive bleeding from improper use of blood thinners.
HHS reported that only 1 in 7 medical mistakes are reported. [...]
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The average American lives to 78 years of age. That number will only continue to rise. As a result, the number of nursing homes opening throughout Florida will continue to rise. While nursing homes are supposed to offer a safe haven for our elderly, they can sometimes provide abuse and neglect.
Selecting a nursing home is [...]
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In an 18 month study in 2009 at the University of Utah, college students using a sophisticated driving simulator showed an 800% greater crash risk when texting than when not texting.
NHTSA reported that 20% of injury crashes involved reports of distracted driving. 5,474 people were killed in crashes involving driver distraction, and an estimated 448,000 people [...]
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On Tuesday, March 13, 2012, a man died and another man was injured in a crash on Hagen Ranch Road near Boynton Beach Boulevard west of Boynton Beach.
A Nissan sedan traveling north on Hagen Ranch collided with a Lincoln SUV headed south around noon, Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Eric Davis said.
The Lincoln crossed the [...]
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A deadly pileup on I-75 near Gainesville Sunday, January 29, 2012, killed ten people and 21 were injured when fog combined with dense smoke from a wildfire in Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park moved over the Interstate.
The road has reopened but the National Weather Service in Jacksonville warned that new wildfires burning in the Osceola [...]
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As reported by The Palm Beach Post:
As the first stretch of guardrails was installed along State Road 80 near Belle Glade this summer, officials gathered to remember a mother and her two daughters who drowned this year after driving into a canal near that very spot.
The long-sought guardrails are among the measures that local officials [...]
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According to The Palm Beach Post, a 19-year-old Palm Beach State College student died and four others were sent to the hospital when a car and a sport utility vehicle collided on Northlake Boulevard in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
On Thursday, September 29, 2011, at around 11:39 p.m., Bryanna N. Sanville, of Palm Beach Gardens, was in [...]
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