Do you have to stop for a school bus in Florida? In the first two weeks of school, approximately 11,500 Miami-Dade County drivers were cited after footage captured from 950 school district buses caught them disobeying traffic laws. The cameras were authorized last year to add extra protections for students…
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Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles issues statewide alert as part of awareness campaign for child safety
Florida public safety partners have banded together to create a “Safe Start to the New School Year with Awareness” campaign ahead of the scheduled return to classes across the state in mid-August, according to a Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles press release. As parents, educators and students…
A 45-year-old Washington man was killed lighting holiday fireworks. How to celebrate safely.
A Washington man was found unresponsive after the fireworks he was lighting accidentally hit him in the head, knocking him unconscious, according to reporting from local news outlets. The incident happened around 2:30 a.m. on July 5 as the man lit mortar-style fireworks, a kind of firework legal in Washington…
Leesfield & Partners attorneys settle case of woman with ‘severe and gruesome’ injuries after a fall at a townhome community
Trial Attorney and Partner, Justin B. Shapiro, recently resolved a case involving a woman who fell on an unstable concrete stepping stone, causing her to lose her balance and shatter her ankle in three places. The unstable slab was part of a walkway in a common area of the townhome…