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A mother, 20, and her 5-year-old son were seriously injured in a crash over the weekend in Allapattah, a neighborhood in the City of Miami,  officials told The Miami Herald

Emergency responders were called around 8:20 a.m. to the area of 1793 NW 20th St. on Friday where the mother’s car had been hit by another driver. Officials said that the mother allegedly crossed mid-block and not at the intersection, according to reporting from local news outlets. One car stopped but anther, who police told reporters did not see her vehicle, did not. 

Both were transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center with serious injuries but are said to have been in stable condition. 

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A 1-year-old died this week in St. Petersburg Florida after being left in the backseat of his father’s car, according to reporting from local news outlets

The incident happened Wednesday after the father had taken the baby to an appointment and seemingly forgot to drop him off at daycare. St. Petersburg police told reporters. When the father returned to the daycare to collect his child, employees at the facility told him that the baby was absent that day. 

The baby was later found in the backseat of the father’s car, where he had been all day, according to police. 

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A motorcyclist riding near Miami International Airport died after crash that threw them over an overpass where they landed on train tracks, officials told The Miami Herald. 

The crash happened on exit 2 of State Road 112 near Miami International Airport. The motorcyclist was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency responders. 

The Miami-Dade County Police Department’s Traffic Homicide unit is investigating the crash. 

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A federal investigation from the U.S. Department of Labor concluded that two contractors’ safety violations could have prevented a Fort Lauderdale crane collapse in April that killed a 27-year-old construction worker.

The investigation concluded that Phoenix Rigging & Erecting LLC and Maxim Crane Works LP be cited for the alleged safety violations the day the man, Jorge de la Torre, fell 30 stories to his death on April 4, 2024. These findings come from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which is a branch of the Department of Labor. 

De la Torre is alleged to not have been properly secured in the incident but a co-worker who was “wearing the required fall protection” was not injured, according to reporting from WSVN Channel 7 News Miami.

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Evan Robinson, a Leesfield & Partners Trial Lawyer,  secured a $350,000 settlement for a woman who shattered her hip as a result of a violent fall at a Monroe County tourist attraction. 

Our client visited the popular tourist attraction while on vacation in the Keys with her husband.  As the couple navigated the property’s narrow and crowded walkway, that was supposed to be flanked with gravel on both sides, our client stepped off the edge of the walkway and into a trench in an area where there was no gravel.  As a result, our client lost her balance and fell violently onto the concrete ground, causing an injury that would forever alter her previously active lifestyle.  

During the course of the litigation, Mr. Robinson learned that the walkway on which our client fell posed a dangerous hazard that was well-known to numerous employees and managers who worked at the attraction. Specifically, the frequent displacement of gravel caused by visitors constantly kicking it around resulted in the walkway repeatedly becoming unlevel.  This recurring hazard presented such a serious danger that it required daily inspections and maintenance for over 16 years.  In fact, every employee who worked at the attraction was instructed to keep watch over this area and bags of additional gravel were kept on site so that maintenance personnel could re-level the walkway when the gravel was displaced. 

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At least one person died and four others were hospitalized with severe burns following a boat explosion at a marina in Dania Beach, according to reporting from The Miami herald. 

The incident took place around 4:30 p.m. Friday when a boat that was delivered to the marina for work before the Fort Lauderdale Boat Show, which is expected to run from Wednesday until Nov. 3. 

The boat exploded after five workers began fueling, according to local media. Witnesses reported hearing a “massive boom” before emergency responders rushed to the scene to get people to the hospital. 

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A fatal, overnight crash that killed one and left two others in the hospital caused parts of I-95 to still be shut down Friday morning. 

The crash happened around 2:20 a.m. near Northwest 119th Street on I-95 when a Dodge SUV driver lost control of the vehicle, slamming into a concrete wall, according to local media. 

A black Honda sedan crashed into the dodge and several others who were standing in the road. 

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In 2023, the families of Edward Dixon and Taborez White were rocked by the news of their deaths in two separate shootings within the same Miami Gardens community. Now, over a year after their deaths, their families have banded together in a lawsuit, claiming that Cedar Grove Apartments, the complex where the shootings took place, didn’t do enough to protect them. 

“He was in the prime of his life when he was ripped from this Earth and us,” Marcia Dixon, Dixon’s mother, said in a press conference Wednesday. 

Dixon went to the apartment complex to visit a friend in January 2023 when he was shot, his mother told local media.

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A family of a baby girl whose neck was broken—resulting in a spinal cord injury that caused paralysis—is now suing the Orlando facility following her death, claiming they tried to cover up the baby’s injury in a new medical malpractice case.

Jahxy Peets was born about three months early at the Orlando Health Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies where she was intubated and admitted to the NICU in June 2022. While there, a nurse allegedly broke the 2-week-old baby’s neck and placed her back in her incubator without alerting other staff or medical professionals. The break caused a “debilitating spinal cord injury” that left the newborn paralyzed. 

Other staff later noticed that the baby was not moving her arms or legs. Jahxy stopped breathing on her own and her organs began shutting down, her parents’ attorneys told local media. A June 29, 2022, MRI revealed the injury. The family’s attorneys claim that there was an attempted cover-up to hide Jahxy’s injuries. 

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Following the tragic deaths of at least five infants across the United States, Fisher-Price is recalling 2 million swings over suffocation risks. 

The concern lies with the company’s Snuga Swing products, which feature pillows depicting different animals, such as raccoons, cats, bears, and puppies, on which parents can lay their infants down before clipping them safely inside. Included in the recall are replacement sleep pads for these swings. 

Similar products appeared to still be for sale Wednesday online at retailers such as Walmart and Poshmark, retailing anywhere from $50 for used products to over $100 for new ones. In reporting from CNN, some of the recalled swings were allegedly for sale for $160. 

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