Boating Mishap Takes Life Of Pasco Man

We were saddened to read a story on the St. Petersburg Times website about the death of 55-year-old New Port Richey resident Richard Green, who was the victim of a boating mishap that took place in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday. Gary Morse of Florida Fish and Wildlife is quoted as saying that Green [...]

Ford F-150 Recall

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has been pressuring Ford to widen their recall of F-150 pickups for months, and they have finally agreed. The issue at the root of the recall involves an electrical malfunction that can cause the air bags to suddenly deploy while the vehicle is being driven. The problem exists in [...]

Spring Hill Injury Accident

There was a crash in Spring Hill on Tuesday that critically injured two young women and hospitalized a two-year-old child. According to a story that is appearing in the online version of the St. Petersburg Times, a Honda driven by Kasey L. Castleberry, 20, was attempting to make a left turn from Drayton Street onto [...]

Disturbing DUI Arrest In Pasco

When you are highlighting the public safety news here in Pasco County you are going to have to report on people who have made mistakes. Sometimes they hurt others in the process, and many times they only damage themselves in one way or another. But when children are put at risk these mistakes are taken [...]

Fatal Motorcycle Crash In Holiday

Now that we are entering the warmer months we are going to see an increase in the number of motorcyclists on the roadways. It is extremely important for people who are driving cars and trucks to recognize that they have blind spots and people on motorcycles are very vulnerable. This is another reason why it [...]

New Port Richey DUI Accident Involves School Bus

Whenever anyone of any age is put at risk on the roadways it is a serious matter, but we would all agree that the safety of our local children is something that takes the highest possible priority. When you consider the nature of school bus transportation, when dozens of youngsters could be affected if a [...]

Traffic Fatalities At Record Low In 2010

When you are charged with the responsibility of highlighting public safety news the unfortunate fact of the matter is that a lot of it is going to be bad. If nothing is wrong, there is nothing to report in many cases, so in essence when it comes to traffic safety no news is good news. [...]

DUI Accident In New Port Richey Injures Five

When you consider the harm that can be done with a motor vehicle and juxtapose that reality against how lightly the activity of driving is taken by so many people it really boggles the mind. To some it is like there is ordinary reality where they would never do anything that jeopardizes others, and then [...]

Play It Save With A Portable Breathalyzer

As public safety advocates who make every effort to raise public awareness about the dangers that we all face on the roadways driving under the influence is going to be an issue that is consistently spoken about. This is one of those things that there really is no excuse for because any thinking person can [...]

Pedestrain Killed In New Port Richey

There is a very preliminary report surfacing on Tampa Bay.com, which is the online version of the St. Petersburg Times, about an incident that apparently occurred at about 10:30 PM on Thursday night on U.S.  19. A  pedestrian who was allegedly attempting to cross the road without the right-of-way was struck and killed by a [...]

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