According to the latest reports, both teenagers’ health are slowly improving and their respective doctors are expecting both girls to recover from their traumatic injuries. The family of Sidney Renea Good and Alexis Fairchild, 17-year-old girls from Huntington and Roanoke, Indiana, have shared that their daughters have both suffered head…
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County truck responsible for 7-vehicle crash and critically injured victims
On May 15, 2013, County employee Alfredo Menendez was placed on leave for ramming his county truck into several stopped vehicle, causing a pileup accident at the intersection of Flagler and Lejeune Road in Miami. According to reports in the local media, witnesses saw the county truck run a red…
Florida on its way to ban texting-while-driving? How a worthless piece of legislation will keep roads unsafe
On April 8, 2013, the Florida Judiciary Committee approved by unanimous vote a bill (SB 52) that would ban texting while driving statewide for the first time in Florida. The bill cleared The Senate Transportation Committee last February, cleared the Senate Communications, Energy, and Public Utilities Committee in March and…
13-year-old boy drowns at Disney’s Pop Century Resort in Central Florida
Last Sunday, 13-year-old Anthony Johnson was rescued by his family from drowning in a Disney Resort pool near Orlando, Florida. Yesterday, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office announced that Anthony had not survived and had been pronounced dead two days later. Anthony, from Springfield, Missouri, was spending spring break vacation with…
Make the right call on texting and driving
TEXTING AND DRIVING Make the right call on texting and driving By Ira H. Leesfield After years of false stops and starts, a bill to curb texting while driving is finally building momentum in the Florida House. The current bill would impose a $30 fine for anyone texting while driving,…
Awareness of Florida Resort Torts heightened in fatal electrocution case of young child
Ira Leesfield pushes for national attention as he appeared on Nancy Grace.
Florida still refuses to ban texting while driving
Aaron Deveau is currently on trial, facing criminal charges including motor vehicle homicide by negligent operation, negligent operation of a motor vehicle, being an operator under 18 using a mobile phone, being an operator reading or sending an electronic message, driving over marked lanes, and two counts of negligent operation…