Tampa Personal Injury Law Blog

A man and his passenger were traveling across a bridge in Tampa on a motorcycle when tragedy struck. As the man was trying to change lanes, he collided with another man on a scooter. Both people riding the motorcycle were thrown off the bike. 

In the wake of the crash, the 54-year-old man on the scooter was pronounced dead even before he was brought to a hospital. The motorcycle's occupants, on the other hand, were rushed to a hospital for treatment, but only the passenger survived. At the time of reports, she was still in critical condition and placed on life support. The severity of the crash could lead to one or more wrongful death claims in civil court.

The Florida Department of Transportation and University of South Florida recently released figures that might concern motorcyclists throughout the state. In 2011 alone, there were "8,621 people involved in motorcycle crashes." To make matters worse, that number represents a 15 percent year-over-year increase between 2010 and 2011.

Public safety officials are trying to figure out exactly what accounts for the jump in injury-causing motorcycle crashes. Some people point to the fact that motorcycle registrations doubled in the 10 years after the helmet requirement was dropped in 2000.

In the early hours of a recent morning, three trucks became tangled in an accident. Emergency crews responded to the crash site on the Florida Turnpike to find that a U-Haul truck and a cement mixer collided with a commercial truck as it entered the highway.

Reports also detail the fact the cement and moving trucks were headed north on the highway when the driver of the commercial truck tried to enter the roadway from a nearby construction site. Although the wreck could have been much worse, as is often the case with truck accidents, one person still emerged with injuries.

A leisurely weekend visit to a pet store could probably not have gone any worse for one Florida family. While his mother visited with other customers, a 6-year-old boy attempted to play with their dog, a pit bull. Unexpectedly, the dog bit the boy in the face, causing an injury serious enough to require stitches.

As the boy's mother rushed to his attention, the dog's owners quickly left the store. In many dog bite cases, injury victims have the ability to pursue compensation from the pet's owners for failing to properly restrain their animal. However, this may not be a possibility if the dog and its owners are never located.