New Traffic Safety Legislation Introduced

Raising awareness, passing new laws, and enforcing existing ones are all important components to the overall effort to make our roadways safer and reduce traffic injuries and fatalities. To that end there was been some new federal legislation introduced that aims to provide the Department of Transportation and its safety arm, the National Highway Traffic [...]

Pasco Vehicular Homicide Sentence Handed Down

40-year-old Ronald Gramling was sentenced to a year of detention in the Pasco County jail coupled with some very strict probation stipulations for a charge of vehicular homicide by Circuit Judge Mary Handsel. He pleaded no contest to the charge in April and has been awaiting sentencing since. The charge resulted from a 2008 head-on [...]

Fatal Motorcycle Accident In Zephyrhills

There have been too many accidents involving motorcycles here in Pasco County this spring and summer, and sadly we must pass along the news about another fatal motorcycle crash. According to an article that is appearing at TampaBay.com, which is the online version of the St. Petersburg Times, 25-year-old Dade City resident James L. O’Dell [...]

Man Involved In Fatal Crash Charged With DUI

Back on June 14th Land O’ Lakes resident Logan Tanner Feagle was involved in an accident on I-75 that wound up killing  road crew worker Robert P. Armstrong Jr., who was just 19 years of age when his life was taken from him. Authorities are still investigating that incident in an effort to determine whether [...]

DUI Arrest In New Port Richey; Children In Car

Without question, driving under the influence is one of the riskiest behaviors that one can engage in behind the wheel of a motor vehicle. There’s never going to be a “good” instance of driving under the influence, but to be fair some infractions of DUI laws are worse than others. There’s no such thing as [...]

Pasco DUI Injury Accident

One of the reasons why we try to raise public awareness about roadway safety is because unlike a lot of things, a single mistake can take someone’s life when you are operating a motor vehicle. There’s simply no margin for error, so when you engage in risky behavior behind the wheel you are literally putting [...]

Man Riding Motorcycle Hits Deer

There was a somewhat unusual accident in Darby on Thursday when a Brooksville man who was riding a Yahama motorcycle on Darby Road struck a deer. 70-year-old John T. Ducey didn’t see the animal until it was too late and there was a collision that caused the bike to flip and Ducey was thrown from [...]

Ford Recalls Trucks, SUVs

We try to keep a close eye on the automotive recalls that are announced by the companies involved in consort with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration so that we can pass them along to our readers. It is important to understand that vehicle defects can and do cause accidents. If you are in an [...]

Pasco Motorcyclist Seriously Injured

There was another motorcycle accident here in Pasco County that resulted in a serious injury. On Tuesday afternoon 40-year-old William Wolden was stopped as he waited to make a turn into a driveway on Old Pasco Road. He was then struck in the rear by a vehicle that was being driven by 51-year-old Dade City [...]

Roadway Safety Study Being Conducted

In order to know exactly how to reduce fatal and near fatal traffic accidents you have to gain an in-depth understanding of  what causes them. To this end the Strategic Highway Research Program is going to conduct a study that puts the behavior of drivers under a microscope. They are recruiting 3,100 drivers who would [...]

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