By Eddie Farah on February 29, 2008
Neither man was wearing his seat belt when the truck they were riding in went off the road. One lived and one did not. The two were traveling in Columbia County, Florida Thursday about 6:30 p.m.
53-year-old Ronald Turner was killed and his passsenger Randy Grover, 49, was injured when the 1988 Chevy pickup ran off Double Run Road.
Both men were ejected from the truck.
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By Eddie Farah on February 28, 2008
A blue Mustang that may have been involved in a fatal hit-and-run Monday morning has been found by police.Part of Roosevelt Boulevard in Jacksonville was shut down during the morning rush hour when a car belonging to
Matthew Borg, 20 crossed the median of the busy road then went airborne.
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By Eddie Farah on February 28, 2008
President Bush today signed the Cameron Gulbransen Traffic Safety Act, named after a two year old who was run over by his father who couldn’t see beyond the family SUV.
The Act will make cars safer for kids injured and killed in non-traffic auto accidents, which killed 230 in 2007. Here’s what it will do:
*Increase visibility behind cars, particularly those large SUVs, by putting a camera in the rear of the car.
*Put an auto reverse sensor on power windows so no child or pet can get their head stuck in the window.
*And force automakers to include a brake shift interlock which means an adult must have a foot on the brake pedal before a car can be shifted out of park.
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