On Sunday February 6, 2022, on the side of Florida’s Turnpike in St. Lucie County, a tow truck driver was struck and murdered. The tow truck driver, a 57-year-old Miami male, was standing next to the tow truck’s open driver’s side door in the southbound lane around mile marker 149…
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Most Dangerous Jobs in Florida
Any worker is at risk of getting hurt at work, some are more at risk than others. Some of the major events in which an injury can occur are violence and other injuries by persons or animals, transportation incidents, fires, and explosions, falls, slips, trips, exposure to harmful substances or…
Are Trucks More Dangerous than Cars?
Automobiles today are the safest and easiest to drive they have ever been, with traffic fatalities in the U.S. dropping every year. This is great news, but trucks are still being found to be less safe than cars. Trucks (including SUVs) are bigger and heavier than cars. They also sit…
Miami Dade colleger student dies in truck accident
Miami Dade college student Eric Steven Gonzalez suffered fatal injuries when his car met in an accident with a Waste Management truck. Investigators reveal his death occured on impact. The Miami Herald reports that the 20 year old’s deceased body remained in the vehicle for hours before Miami Dade rescuers…
Man in wheelchair killed in truck accident
According to a report by NBC Miami, on March 28, 2011 a man crossing the street in a wheelchair in the northwest part of Miami was struck by an 18 wheeler and killed in this truck accident. The unidentified man in the wheelchair was crossing NW 27th Avenue heading west…