Last year, the U.S. witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of pedestrian accidents. This significant uptick in accidents and related deaths had many officials debating what may be at fault, but very few actually seem to understand that these “distracted walking” accidents are as much to blame as they may think. Too many people…
Florida Highway Patrol is currently investigating a recent car accident between a Sheriff’s deputy in a patrol car and an Uber driver. Both cars entered the intersection at State Road 434 and Ronald Reagan Blvd. before the deputy T-boned the Uber driver’s Volkswagen. The deputy, his passenger, and the driver of the Uber vehicle all…
A recent car accident between a bus and a pickup truck on Orange Blossom Trail between 37th and 38th resulted in the injuries of at least 14 people. The bus crash occurred on the 7th at about 1:10pm. The bus driver, a Winter Garden resident, was busy helping passenger on and off of the Lynx…
A man was killed recently when a car hit him at high speed. The man, who turned 40 just days before the accident, had been out riding a bike when a maroon Ford Mustang convertible struck him. According to witnesses, the victim was hit hard enough that he landed more than 30 feet from the…
We’ve all had that one landlord that refused to fix a leak or replace a broken window, but sometimes, landlords can be guilty of a lot more. Thousands of people every year suffer an injury on rental property, whether it’s a slip and fall, electrocution, illness caused by mold, or broken bones from ceiling cave-ins.…
Last month we blogged about the Orlando cobra who escaped from its enclosure while the owner was away; now, finally after weeks of sustained paranoia, Elvis is back in the building. The eight-foot-long cobra was found in an Orlando suburb not terribly far, about half a mile, from where it had escaped. A woman discovered…
Last week, an Orlando police officer was stopped at a red light at the intersection of International and Altamira Drive over by the Artegon Marketplace just before midnight when he was rear-ended by a drunk driver in an SUV. The squad car was completely totaled by the wreck. The officer was trapped in the car…
Two young teenagers were seriously injured by a hit-and-run driver recently in Seminole County. The teenagers, who had been skateboarding at the time, were both hit simultaneously by an oncoming car. The Florida Highway Patrol says that the car was travelling down Lake Howell when it struck the teens at the Maywood Road intersection just…
On the same day in Orlando, one bus crashed into a pond and another was in a collision with an SUV. These two school bus crashes put the lives of 38 children in danger. The School Bus in the Pond The wheels on the bus went round and round until they found themselves underwater recently.…
A tragedy shut down a major thoroughfare in Orange County recently after a crash involving five cars, two of them stolen. Officials have said that the five-car accident was the result of one of the drivers running a red light. Unfortunately, the intersection where the crash took place had no cameras to capture the incident.…
A family of three was killed in a car accident over the Labor Day weekend after deciding to take a spontaneous trip to Walt Disney World. The family, coming from Georgia, made it to Lake County before their Nissan Maxima was rear-ended at high speed by a Mercedes SUV a little after 4 a.m. on…
There are many dangers lurking behind trees and under rocks in the wilderness of Orlando, Florida, but none more terrifying and deadly than the king cobra slithering through the grass. “There aren’t any king cobras in Orlando” you hesitantly whisper under your breath. However, no amount of self-assurance can change the fact that Jafar isn’t…
