A fatal, overnight crash that killed one and left two others in the hospital caused parts of I-95 to still be shut down Friday morning.
The crash happened around 2:20 a.m. near Northwest 119th Street on I-95 when a Dodge SUV driver lost control of the vehicle, slamming into a concrete wall, according to local media.
A black Honda sedan crashed into the dodge and several others who were standing in the road.
In 2023, the families of Edward Dixon and Taborez White were rocked by the news of their deaths in two separate shootings within the same Miami Gardens community. Now, over a year after their deaths, their families have banded together in a lawsuit, claiming that Cedar Grove Apartments, the complex where the shootings took place, didn’t do enough to protect them.
“He was in the prime of his life when he was ripped from this Earth and us,” Marcia Dixon, Dixon’s mother, said in a press conference Wednesday.
Dixon went to the apartment complex to visit a friend in January 2023 when he was shot, his mother told local media.
Videos of electric vehicle fires amid the Hurricane Milton storm surges have spread across social media.
Tesla, a clean-energy company, sent advisories to customers urging them to move their cars to higher ground ahead of Hurricane Milton. Various insurance carriers also alerted electric vehicle owners to make storage arrangements ahead of the storm, suggesting that people park their cars in protected garages and on higher ground to ward against fires and other damage caused by flooding.
And it’s not just cars. The Florida Fire Marshal has called the vehicles and other products “ticking time bombs” due to their lithium-ion batteries.
One teen charged, another killed after the two were playing with a loaded gun at an apartment in Broward County, officials say.
The incident happened around 2:30 p.m. Monday. The teen who was hit was identified by police in reporting by The Miami Herald as 16-year-old Christopher Granados. He was taken to the hospital by emergency responders where he was pronounced dead.
The other boy involved in the incident, who was not named, was charged Tuesday with manslaughter.
Justin B. Shapiro, a Partner and Trial Lawyer with Leesfield & Partners, secured a $1,824,327 record settlement for a client whose fall left his pelvic bone so shattered doctors said the fragments resembled “bread crumbs.”
In an article published in the Daily Business Review, Mr. Shapiro told reporters that within the first hour of speaking with this client he could tell the man was a wonderful person and decided to take on the case, which two law firms had already rejected, because “when we dig in, we don’t stop until our client is made whole.”
“We turned an enormously challenging case into a seven-figure recovery,” he said. “I’m proud to say that I don’t know of any settlement or verdict in Florida larger than this for a fall in a shower.”
A girl, 7, who was hit by a car while walking with her mother outside of a Miami pharmacy Monday remains hospitalized in critical condition, officials say.
The incident happened around 4 p.m. at a Navarro Pharmacy on SW 32nd Ave. and 22nd St. when a 92-year-old woman in a Nissan SUV allegedly drove onto the sidewalk. Police told local news outlets that the woman was attempting to park her car when she mistakenly stepped on the accelerator.
The woman was cited for driving recklessly and further charges are possible, police told reporters.
Following at least two gas-related incidents at Broward County schools in as many weeks, the district’s superintendent called for carbon monoxide detectors to be installed at every campus.
“We also discovered that we don’t have carbon monoxide detectors in our kitchens and in our cafeterias,” Superintendent Howard Hepburn told local news reporters Tuesday.
The call for the installation of detectors comes after Cypress Bay High School was evacuated for a carbon monoxide leak in the school’s cafeteria that caused an evacuation and the hospitalization of at least five people Friday. None of the five people who required medical attention were students, the school district previously told local news outlets.
An elementary school employee was taken to the hospital for evaluation Monday morning after a propane gas leak in the school’s cafeteria, officials say.
Emergency responders were called out to Oriole Elementary, 3081 NW 39th St. in Lauderdale Lakes, around 9 a.m., according to reporting from The Miami Herald. The call was allegedly made after someone at the school reported smelling propane.
Officials inspected the school and deemed it was safe enough for students and teachers to return to their classrooms.
A five-car pileup car crash Wednesday in Miami Gardens left at least 10 people injured, according to police.
The car crash happened Wednesday morning at an intersection near NW 27th Avenue and NW 199th Street. In reporting from NBC 6 South Florida, officials said it was a chain-reaction crash requiring multiple vehicles to be towed from the scene with considerable damage. The 10 people who were sent to the hospital had minor injuries.
Investigators are looking into what caused the crash and additional details were not immediately available Thursday.
Parked along every street corner or perched against the sides of South Miami buildings, taunting drivers sitting in grid-locked traffic on U.S. 1, is a cluster of e-scooters for rent.
The “epidemic,” as Ira Leesfield, the Founder and Managing Partner of Leesfield & Partners, first dubbed it in 2019 has become the cause for concern for councilmembers, politicians and safety advocates across the United States and abroad. Without licensing, insurance or age requirements, the drivers of electric scooters and bikes can go anywhere they please, meaning sidewalks, streets, pedestrian paths and more.
“Being unsightly may not be unforgivable, but landing innocent pedestrians or others in a neurosurgical coma is,” Leesfield said. “Not to mention a slew of other reported serious injuries … Just ask those who work at Hospitals and Emergency rooms or walk-in medical facilities.”
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