Accident And Injury (page 15)

In the wake of the passage of Florida’s new residential pool safety law, there’s been a lot of attention on what homeowners here in JAX...

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• jacksonville
• Aug 3, 2016

This summer has been hot — and will get hotter. For the first time since temperatures started being recorded, forecasters say all 50 states will...

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• Jul 29, 2016

A construction worker in the Naples area was struck by lightning and killed earlier this week. The worker, who seemed to be gathering his materials...

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• naples
• Jul 28, 2016

The daughters of a Brevard County woman were rudely awakened to the dangers of vehicles with keyless ignitions after discovering their mother had died due...

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• melbourne
• Jul 28, 2016

An alarming number of accidents at work sites have been recorded in the Philadelphia area since mid-June. Earlier this month, a 37-year-old roofer fell to...

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• philadelphia
• Jul 22, 2016

St. Petersburg residents have had it up to here with accidents on the intersection of 28th St. N and 1st Ave. N. The corner consists...

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• st-petersburg
• Jul 21, 2016

The majority of Americans engage in aggressive driving, according to a recent survey conducted by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. The survey found that...

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• Jul 21, 2016

Yet another Mississippi Highway Patrol trooper narrowly avoided catastrophic injury last weekend when his vehicle was hit by an oncoming driver while he was helping...

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• jackson
• Jul 21, 2016

Tragedy struck on Atlanta’s busy I-285, when a 20-year-old man was killed while performing roadside repair on his vehicle near Spaghetti Junction. The man was...

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• atlanta
• Jul 20, 2016

There were nearly 1,500 wrong-way driving crashes in Florida in 2015, and there is perhaps no part of the state that understands the severity of...

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• orlando
• Jul 20, 2016

The body of a missing man was found near Fort Myers Beach over the weekend. Jerry Conti, 62, of Naples was reported missing in the...

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• fort-myers
• Jul 14, 2016

Pokémon is taking the nation by storm yet again — this time in the form of an augmented reality mobile game. Unlike previous Pokémon games,...

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• Jul 13, 2016

An alarming level of lead has been found in the water of Mississippi’s capital – levels so high that the situation has been compared to...

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• jackson
• Jul 8, 2016

America’s most dangerous highways have three things in common; they’re among the longest in the country, the busiest, and all but one run through Florida,...

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• Jul 7, 2016

Earlier this week, several workers in Orlando were injured after the floor of a hotel under construction collapsed beneath them while they were pouring cement....

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• orlando
• Jul 1, 2016