Orlando Personal Injury Blog

On Saturday, a ship with the popular Carnival Cruise Line was returning to PortMiami after a week-long journey through the Caribbean when an incident occurred that transformed what was an enjoyable trip into a nightmare. Just after 8:00 in the morning, the ship arrived at Port Miami and docked so that the passengers could disembark. It was during the movement of passengers from the deck of the ship to the pier that an 8-year-old girl, who was standing on one of the upper decks inside the ship, fell from her location in the atrium to a deck two stories beneath her. Read the rest »

On Saturday, shortly after 10:00 in the evening, a 46-year-old Orlando resident named Maria Guzman was on foot by Colonial Drive. Witnesses to the scene say that Guzman’s path was taking her along the south side of Colonial Drive when she decided to cross the street. Guzman approached a crosswalk at an intersection and began to cross the street. Read the rest »

A crash that occurred this past Sunday close to 6130 East Colonial Drive in Orlando resulted in the death of at least one individual and the serious injury of another. Members of the Orange County Fire Rescue and the Florida Highway Patrol have issued a statement regarding the situation that provides the most current details on the case. According to this statement, a GMC pickup truck and a Honda Civic were both involved in the accident, which happened close to an Orlando Home Depot. Read the rest »

This past Wednesday, a manhunt was launched in Margate after a car was stolen outside of a post office. According to the official report from the Margate Police spokesperson, Sgt. Lorie Eller, the incident began when Elizabeth Marchand drove her 2016 BMW X1 to the post office located at 5094 Coconut Creek Parkway. Read the rest »

Reports emerging from the Lakeland Fire Department and the Polk County Fire Rescue are shedding light on a deadly house fire that occurred in Lakeland earlier this week. According to an official statement from Polk County Fire Rescue spokesperson Kevin Walter, firefighters within the county received a call close to 1:30 on Wednesday morning that directed them to the Lakeland address 7445 Green Road. When they arrived, fire rescue personnel discovered a large single-story home on fire as well as individuals still trapped within the burning structure. Read the rest »

Orlando police and the Florida Highway Patrol were able to significantly advance their investigation into a hit-and-run fatality that occurred earlier this month when they received an anonymous call through the Crimeline service directing them to the location of the vehicle in question. The search for the car began on the 1st of October, after a 58-year-old Boca Raton woman named Margarita Contreras was struck and killed along Orange Blossom Trail. Read the rest »

Early this past Tuesday morning on October 10th at approximately 2:45 a.m., a Florida Highway Patrol trooper sustained minor injuries when he was involved in rear-end collision near Highway 408 in Orlando, after a drunk driver slammed into the back of his police cruiser. Read the rest »

A young Michigan woman, who was vacationing with her husband in Orlando at the time of the incident, was killed late Sunday evening just before 11:30 p.m. when she was involved in a tragic pedestrian accident near the Orange County Convention Center. Read the rest »

A tragic fatal pickup truck accident occurred this past Sunday morning at approximately 10:45 a.m., when two men were injured and two men were killed in a terrible rollover collision on Orange Blossom Trail near Mott Avenue in Orange County, Florida. Read the rest »

A man riding a bicycle was killed last week after he collided with a car. According to the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP), the accident happened in the Orlando area at the intersection of Taft Vineland Road and Orange Blossom Trail. The bicyclist was taken to the nearby Orlando Regional Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. Nobody else was reported injured. Read the rest »