Florida Personal Injury News Events

Ricardo Earl Coterillo died from injuries suffered while he was struck by a Ford F-150 near the intersection of Walt Loop Road and Walt Williams Road. Coterillo was 53 years old and died at Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center. Coterillo was driving a 2014 Harley-Davidson FXDB....

Two people suffered serious injuries in an accident on Interstate-4 at approximately 1:30 p.m. on Saturday. The accident happened in the westbound lanes near Maitland Boulevard. A black Honda Civic flipped and the driver had to be taken by helicopter for emergent care at a trauma...

Lucilinda Quiles was driving 2015 Mazda on SR 408 when she moved out of the left lane, into the grass median, and then struck a barrier wall. Her vehicle stopped hanging from the bridge as in the photograph below. Rescuers were able to get her and a child out of the vehicle before...

Leonard Pasco died of injuries suffered while as a passenger in a car accident. This collision happened as James Diggins was driving his 2004 Oldsmobile Alero on U.S. 301 near Jordan Road when he struck a 1995 Lincoln Town Car driven by John Bryant carrying four passengers. Pasco was...

Brandon Gregorich died of injuries suffered when he was involved in a motorcycle accident on Thursday night. Gregorich was 23 years old. The accident happened at approximately 10:30 p.m. as he was headed eastbound on the Ronald Reagan Parkway near Roselli Boulevard. Gregorich was on...

The Lakeland Police Department closed the eastbound lanes of US 98 at the intersection of N. Florida Avenue. The accident happened at approximately 12:40 p.m. and involved more than one vehicle. At that point in the roadway, the east-west road becomes George Jenkins Boulevard while...

Li Shangying was struck and killed while riding a bicycle eastbound on Chalet Suzanne Road in Lake Wales, Florida. Shangying was 63 years old and a Chinese citizen. The accident happened at approximately 10:15 p.m. on Thursday night when Erick Bond struck her going east with a 2008...

Albert Tillman died as a result of a car accident on State Road 60 going eastbound in Lake Wales.  Tillman was 67 years old.  The Ledger reports that Tillman was walking his bicycle in the outside lane of SR60 when he was struck by Sabrina Stewart at approximately 10:50...

A pickup truck pulling a trailer on State Road 429 near mile marker 26 was involved in an accident. The trailer separated from the pickup truck and came to a stop approximately 50 feet away. The trailer involved was a utility type trailer that is often used to haul lawn equipment....

Tanga Frazier is charged with DUI, leaving the scene of an accident, and child abuse arising out of an accident with a police car. The accident happened at the intersection of Scenic Highway S and Domaris Avenue. Thereafter, she fled the scene and was found at 620 Emerald Avenue...

An accident near Waterford Lakes sent one vehicle into a retention pond. Two people were rescued from that vehicle shown in the photograph below. The other vehicle went into a ditch. Specific details about the accident are not clear. Emergency calls regarding the accident were...

A man on a motorized bicycle is in critical condition after getting hit crossing the road. The man has not been identified by was crossing W. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.s Boulevard at N. Himes Avenue when he was struck. The accident happened at approximately 6 p.m. on Sunday. The...

Geovany Mendez is charged with DUI following a head on collision with another vehicle. The accident happened at approximately 11:15 p.m. when Mendez was going southbound in the northbound lane of Anderson Road near Hoover Boulevard. The other driver was reported to have suffered and...

A DUI driver heading west on Hillsborough Avenue crossed over the center line and into the eastbound lanes causing a serious accident. After crossing over, Yadixa Rodriguez struck a traffic light and another car as seen in the photograph below. Rodriguez is facing DUI charges with...

A female pedestrian crossing the street at 50th Street E and Broadway Avenue E was fatally injured when she was hit by a car. The accident happened at approximately 3:42 a.m. (early Saturday morning). No charges will be filed against the driver of the car as a result of this...

Francisco Dominguez died as a result of an accident near mile marker 35 on Interstate 4 in Lakeland, Florida. The accident happened when a 2008 Ford F-150 pickup truck going eastbound lost control and flipped over. The truck was driven by Edgar Ramirez-Chavez and was carrying Leonel...

A car accident on South Florida Avenue at West Alamo Drive in Lakeland, Florida results in injuries. The accident occurred at approximately 9:00 am. in front of 4355 S. Florida Avenue between a red Ford Expedition and a silver Hyundai Sonota. The Ledger reports the injuries as...

A Ford F-150 pickup truck went through the lobby of a Goodyear Tire Store located at 456 King Street, N. This second accident occurred after the F-150 was involved in an accident with a blue sedan that had been headed north on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Street, N. when the driver of...

Anthony Thomas Giglitotti was driving a 1994 Toyota Camry when it left the roadway on U.S. Highway 27 near Officer Horner Memorial Way. Officer Horner Memorial Way was formerly known as Johnson Avenue and is shown on Google Maps as such. The accident happened as Giglitotti was...

Three cars were involved in an accident on Monday near the intersection of Hillsborough Avenue and the Veterans Expressway. Two of the vehicles were reported to have caught fire. The Florida Highway Patrol reported to the news media that one person suffered non-life threatening...