Two men working for HJ High Construction were hospitalized recently after falling through the roof of the building they had been renovating. Neither man sustained any life-threatening injuries despite falling 20 feet. The Orlando Fire Department commented that one man injured his arm and the other man hurt his hand. Fire officials speculated that the…
According to a report by WOFL Fox 35 Orlando, a boat engine burst into flames with people still on board. After attempting to take off at full throttle, passengers reported hearing a loud bang before the engine exploded, launching one passenger from the ski boat. The unlucky passenger, who had been sitting directly over the…
Practicing safe cycling is important anywhere, but especially in Florida, where alligator carcasses can cause bicycle accidents. A man involved in a bicycle accident with a dead alligator recently told his story to the local press. He went into detail on how painful his recovery has been after suffering multiple fractures, a collapsed lung, several…
An unseen threat lurks in poorly chlorinated swimming pools, standing tap water and water parks during the summer months. Warm weather and poorly treated swimming pools in Florida can create ideal conditions for a brain-eating amoeba, Naegleria fowleri (N. fowleri). Discovered in 1965, the tiny amoeba thrives in standing warm water, sometimes where people are…
Auto accidents happen frequently in busy intersections, and the Florida Department of Transportation hopes to install new crash prevention technology that can prevent them from happening. HALO technology uses cameras to detect when approaching vehicles do not have time to stop at red lights. The cameras are capable of keeping lights on the opposing side…
Maitland Boulevard was shut down on June 29 after a truck accident involving two dumptrucks ended with their respective cargoes spilling across the roadway, according to a wftv.com report. One truck was following the other. The first slowed down as it approached slow-rolling traffic, and the trailing dumptruck slammed into its rear, overturning both vehicles…
According to a 7News report featured on wsvn.com, five people were taken to the hospital with injuries after a 32-foot boat crashed into a jetty near Pompano Beach. Investigators quoted in the news report thought that the operator of the boat may have miscalculated the approach of the craft into Hillsboro Inlet. According to the…
A teen driver was arrested on July 3 in connection with a fatal hit-and-run accident that occurred in Orlando on July 1, according to a report on wftv.com. The car accident occurred when the teen backed his Nissan Pathfinder SUV into a disabled car, pushing the disabled vehicle back into its driver and crushing him…
A 40-year-old man riding a motorcycle was killed by a head-on collision with a pickup in an accident that occurred in Lake County on June 24, according to authorities quoted by a clickorlando.com report. Florida Highway Patrol sources said the car accident occurred on County Road 46-A close to Arundel Way in Sorrento when the…
A Local 6 report reveals that some Florida crosswalks can be very dangerous for pedestrians. One Orlando woman interviewed by Local 6 refuses to use a crosswalk spanning Edgewater Drive whenever she brings her children to Dartmouth Park.“[Y]ou can’t be sure they’re going to stop,” she told Local 6. Lisa Bell, one of the news…
On June 25, a 70-year-old woman died after her car drifted into oncoming traffic and struck a garbage truck head-on, according to a clickorlando.com report. Florida Highway Patrol troopers said it was not clear as to why the woman drove into the garbage truck and that alcohol was not a factor in the wreck. The…
An Orlando doctor was arrested for manslaughter charges relating to the 2012 death of a nurse resulting from a drug overdose, according to a June 9 article on the Orlando Sun Times website. According to the report, the doctor’s wife was arrested as well for her financial relation to highly addictive prescriptions given out by…
