Florida Injury Lawyer Blawg
An Ohio grandmother was struck July 8 by a car backing out of a driveway, then a passing SUV, resulting in the woman’s death.
The woman, 72, was walking down the sidewalk with two children, a toddler and a 7-year-old, around 11:30 a.m. when a car backed out of the driveway. A passing SUV also hit the grandmother. She sustained fatal injuries while the toddler had minor injuries, according to reporting from local news outlets. The 7-year-old was not injured.
The grandmother is being hailed a hero online by family members who said in a post honoring her that the children, who are her great-grandchildren, were “still here because of her.”
Florida Traffic Statistics & Past Cases
In Florida, a state with a considerable increase following the COVID-19 pandemic, traffic and congestion are more problematic than ever. The state has seen almost 200,000 crashes so far in 2024 alone with 1,414 fatalities and 114,379 injuries, according to the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. With more cars on the road and today’s reliance on technology like cellphones, GPS and other distractions, there is a considerable risk of injury with devastating consequences.
As a personal injury law firm with over four decades of experience serving injured clients and grieving families, Leesfield & Partners knows how hazardous distracted drivers can be and how quickly a crash can take place.
Last month, the law firm settled a case of a man seriously injured in a traffic crash. The case, handled by Evan Robinson, a Leesfield & Partners attorney, was settled with a $10,000 award for bodily injury and $100,000 in uninsured motorist policy coverage.
Uninsured motorist policies exist to protect injured drivers if the at-fault driver does not have coverage or cannot be identified, like in cases of a hit-and-run. This policy differs from under-insured motorist coverage which protects the injured driver if the at-fault driver’s policy cannot cover the full extent of the damages.
A wife and mother of two visiting Fort Myers, Florida on vacation from Toronto, Canada, was killed after she tried crossing the street and was instead crushed by a pickup truck. An $8,500,000 settlement for the family was reached by Leesfield & Partners attorneys with the defendant, after a $27 million arbitration award.
Leesfield & Partners cases involving motor vehicle crashes Motor vehicle crashes handled by the law firm total in multi-million awards for clients including a county-wide record-setting verdict in the case of a family whose daughter was senselessly killed and whose son was left needing round-the-clock care after a drunk driver hit them head-on. That tragic crash took place as the family readied to send off their daughter for her medical school orientation. The case resulted in $57 million for the son who was diagnosed with severe orthopedic and brain injuries. The parents were also awarded $38 million. This is the largest motor vehicle accident verdict in Miami-Dade County and the fourth largest in the state.
