Dellutri Law Group January 2018

Who’s to Blame

for Florida Accidents?

as it happens everywhere. Florida does receive its fair share of snowbirds and tourists, and yes, maybe they need to be a bit more cautious on our roads. But in all fairness, so do we. Everyone needs to slow down during tourist season and give everyone the benefit of the doubt when we are behind the wheel. Whether it’s a snowbird who is driving on U.S. 41 with their left blinker on and decides to make a right turn into a Publix or the Floridian who gets a bit of road rage from all of the traffic, anyone can cause an accident. It takes only a moment for something to go wrong. Your chances go up dramatically when a driver is either intoxicated or has a cell phone in their hands. Anyone can slip up. Hopefully you are all paying attention while driving, but if you do get into an accident, you should know that you are only human, whether or not you are from out of town. We help people injured in automobile accidents all day long, and I have to admit that we see our fair share of snowbird cases (I put them in blue folders just to see how many there are), but we also see our fair share of pure Floridian negligence. There were way too many deaths on our roads in 2017. I just wanted to set the record straight and ask that we all use just a little bit more caution during this busy snowbird season.

Here in the state of Florida, we tend to blame northerners for the vast majority of automobile accidents that occur. We like to affectionately call those northerners ‘snowbirds.’ While out-of- towners can be blamed for some accidents, it’s unjust to assume that all accidents are the fault of our northern friends — yes, friends.

Let’s keep in mind two important things:

The people that keep our economy going are those that flock to our sunny weather yearly, in addition to tourists that come to enjoy many things some of us might take for granted. So, we must accept the bad with the good.

Many accidents in Florida are caused by Florida residents. People just like you and me. People who live here. People like us who make mistakes. Sometimes we have to zip our lips about the snowbirds. To be fair, though, we aren’t the only people in the U.S. who blame tourists for accidents,

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