A Tampa motorcycle accident involving a 100-year-old driver has raised the question of how old is too old to operate a motor vehicle. On Tuesday, April 3, Apollo Beach resident Howard Francis Demask hit 22-year-old Timothy Mohammed Soliman, who is also an Apollo Beach resident. Deputies with the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said the Tampa [...]
April 12, 2012
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Tampa Car Accident Kills Local Man
Deputies are looking into a Tampa car accident that has claimed the life of a local man. Thomas James Nott, a 22 year old man from Tampa, was killed while driving his 2006 Yamaha motorcycle in Odessa at about 2:15 a.m. Sunday morning. The motorcyclist was driving southbound on Crawley Road when he lost control [...]
April 12, 2012
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Tampa Car Accident Report: Fatal Car and Cyclist Accidents, Spilled Fuel
Multiple Tampa car accidents last week led to serious injuries and fatalities in the metro area. The trouble started before 5:00 a.m. on this first day of the workweek. An SUV and dump truck were tangled in a serious crash around 4:45 a.m. that blocked northbound lanes on the Sunshine Skyway Bridge for several hours. [...]
March 22, 2012
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Tampa Motorcycle Accident Leads to Fatality
Motorcyclist Alan Delong, age sixty-two years old, was killed in a Tampa motorcycle accident Saturday afternoon on February 25th, after colliding with another vehicle. Florida Highway Patrolmen have officially stated that the Tampa-based vehicle accident occurred on N. Nebraska Avenue when fifty year old Edward Peter Figueroa made an improper U-turn into Delong’s lane of [...]
March 2, 2012
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Will Statewide Crackdown on Aggressive Driving Decrease Tampa Car Accidents?
The Florida Highway Patrol will be inducing a three day long crackdown on aggressive driving in an effort to make the states safer which may help decrease local car accidents in Tampa. FHP troopers will be focusing on three specific behaviors in this effort to decrease aggressive driving, including: Following to closely Changing lanes improperly [...]
February 29, 2012
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New Study Reveals Distracted Pedestrians Pose Serious Personal Injury Risk
With more people than ever tuning into mobile devices and tuning out of the world around them, an increasing number of distracted pedestrians are being found at fault in Tampa car accidents. In many cases, these pedestrians were struck while wearing headphones after drivers attempted to alert them with their vehicle’s horn before the collision. [...]
February 23, 2012
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New Legislation Would Create Stiffer Penalties for Fleeing Tampa Car Accidents
Drivers who are involved in a Tampa car accident have a legal responsibility to remain at the scene until they have ensured that no one has been injured. Unfortunately, many drivers choose to leave the scene of an accident in order to avoid possible criminal or civil liabilities. A new bill introduced by state Senator [...]
September 30, 2011
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Two Injured in I-75 SUV Rollover
A wreck on Interstate 75 in Brandon left two women critically injured. Saturday afternoon, Tenisha S. Ramnath lost control of her vehicle, ending in a wreck and critical injuries for her and her passenger, 34-year-old Chandradaye Rampersad. Florida Highway Patrol reported 26-year-old Ramnath was driving a 2006 Mitsubishi Outlander north on I-75 at about 2:30 [...]
September 30, 2011
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87-year-old Hit and Killed by 92-year-old Driver
An elderly woman was struck and killed Thursday morning on her walk home from a local grocery store. Store owner, Mike Mikhail, reported 87-year-old Dorothy Rutter as a regular. She was a resident of Palm Lakes Village. Happy Foods Store in Dunedin was one of the only places the residents could visit. “They don’t have [...]
September 19, 2011
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Seffner Man Dies in Car Wreck
Early Monday morning, August 15th, a Seffner man crashed his car on Fort King Boulevard in Tampa. According the police report, Elmer Houghie Monroe III, 49, was driving a 1986 Nissan pickup truck. When the truck failed to make a turn, it left the road and crashed into a large magnolia tree. Monroe died at [...]
April 15, 2012
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