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Sarasota Car Accident Attorneys Explain Florida Fatal Crash Trends A new report – with the tagline “Never before have deaths on our nation’s roadways increased so rapidly” – says that Florida is one of the worst states for traffic safety laws and car accidents. This conclusion comes from a ranking of states’ traffic safety laws by …

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Older drivers take a lot of flack for being “dangerous” behind the wheel. Like most stereotypes, this one is untrue – and there’s new data to prove it. Drivers ages 65 and up are actually a lot less likely than younger drivers to be in fatal or serious injury-causing car accidents, according to the Insurance Institute …

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A Sarasota Car Accident Lawyer Discusses the Dangers Surrounded by stationary and slow-moving cars along with pedestrians on foot, motorists should use the same good driving skills in parking lots as they do on public streets — but they often do not. Every year, tens of thousands of people are injured and hundreds die in car …

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Our Sarasota car accident lawyers look at the numbers Florida drivers have a bad reputation – and deservedly so, according to some shocking new statistics that reveal the state ranks third in the country for fatal hit-and-run car accidents over the last decade. The number of fatal hit-and-runs nationwide rose from 1,342 in 2010 to 1,939 in …

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Our attorneys reveal what to know A woman who was critically injured while out for a walk in Sarasota has died. The 55-year-old victim from Alaska was involved in the fatal pedestrian accident while walking on North Tamiami Trail and Ortiz Boulevard on a late-September 2021 morning, according to local media. The woman had been walking in …

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Our car accident lawyers reveal what you should know The alleged driver in a serious hit-and-run crash on a Florida highway has been arrested. In late August 2021, Florida Highway Patrol announced they had arrested a Sarasota man wanted for allegedly crashing into a motorcycle on Bee Ridge Road (FL 758) and critically injuring the …

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1 Experienced lawyers explain why these accidents happen in Florida While car accidents can happen anywhere in Sarasota, Florida, one of the most common places where they occur is at intersections. The same is true throughout Florida. Intersection accidents often happen statewide and result in serious injuries or fatalities, especially in cases involving head-on collisions and T-bone accidents, …

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1 Investigation finds federal crash tests are not geared toward women Studies find women are more likely to be injured or killed in car accidents than men. But despite this grim fact, testing for safety features in crashes favors men. According to a recent report, tests on vehicles examine how crashes affect the driver. However, the model for …

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1 Of all the millions of miles of pavement stretching across America, 6 out of the nation’s top 10 most dangerous roadways are located in Florida. They are U.S. highways 1, 41, 27, 44, 17, and 98. At Farrow & Pulice, P.A, we know Southwest Florida has seen its fair share of tragic car accidents. Recently, two …

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Seeing a wrong-way driver heading down the highway on a collision course with your vehicle can be a terrifying experience. If you don’t react fast enough, you could end up having a devastating head-on crash that results in fatal injuries. Tragically, wrong-way driving crashes are on the rise. According to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, there were …

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