In Orlando alone, 60 percent of drivers admit they have operated a vehicle in the last twelve months even though they knew they were too fatigued to drive safely, and because this figure is self-reported, it is probably vastly understated. Nationwide, fatigue driving causes about one million vehicle collisions a year, and many of them [...]
A 2-year-old died, and eight other people were seriously injured, in a rollover car crash that police are still investigating. The wreck happened on U.S. 441 in Lake County. Police state that a woman apparently made an unsafe lane change and collided with an SUV. The force of the collision sent the SUV hurtling over [...]
Investigators are still scrutinizing a fatal auto-pedestrian crash that occurred in Lake Buena Vista. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the wreck occurred near the intersection of SR 535 and Meadow Creek Drive. A southbound driver struck and killed a pedestrian who was crossing the road outside the sidewalk. Although the driver immediately left the [...]
Two people were killed, and a third person was seriously injured, after yet another car crash on a deadly stretch of road in Orange County. The wreck occurred near the infamous Lake Pickett Road/Fort Christmas Road intersection, which is in a rural area about 20 miles east of Orlando. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, [...]
At least eleven people were seriously hurt after an SUV driver, who may have fallen asleep while driving, crossed the centerline and collided with a busload of people. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, 36-year-old Megan Hester-Villalobos, of Groveland, was southbound on the northbound side of Sherbeth Road when she smashed into the 16-passenger bus; [...]
After a months-long investigation, Orlando police issued an arrest warrant for the person they say is responsible for an alcohol-related hit and run crash that killed one woman and seriously injured several others. Last December, according to authorities, a 46-year-old man slammed into a Ford Taurus that four women, as the vehicle sat at a [...]
