Lee County accident lawyer

In a recent article published in Gulfshore Life, Reporter Jennifer Reed began with the observation that, as someone who drives 60 hours a day round-trip at least five days every week, drivers in Southwest Florida “stink.”

She qualifies this by saying she used to live in Massachusetts, where drivers have a notorious less-than-stellar reputation. But here in Florida, she said, “this is one big drag race, slowed only slightly by traffic signals, when they are actually obeyed.”

Not wanting to rely solely on her own opinions, Reed took her reporter’s notebook to the Lee County Justice Center, where criminal traffic arraignments start at 8:30 a.m. on the dot. Reed described it as “the unhappiest place on earth,” with 96 people on the docket – a “light day,” explains a deputy. Continue reading ›

At Associates and Bruce L. Scheiner, Attorneys for the Injured, we laud the hard work and sacrifice of our emergency responders. That includes police, firefighters and EMS workers who routinely rush into potentially dangerous situations for the safety and well-being of others.

This said, there was a troubling report recently released following an investigation by the Naples Daily News that raises concerns about the level of distraction with which these workers contend when they drive.

The newspaper found that more than 4,100 crashes throughout Florida in recent years were caused by distraction and involved an emergency responder. These are supposed to be the best-trained drivers in the state, and yet these workers – especially in Southwest Florida – had an especially high rate of distraction-related crashes when compared to the general public.

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Report: Southwest Florida at Risk from Bad Drivers

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