U.S. News ranked Tampa Bay as the #15 spot for the fastest-growing places in the U.S. for 2022-2023. The neighboring areas of Sarasota and Fort Myers took the #3 and #4 spots. Interestingly enough, Lakeland, Fl took the #2 spot on the list and Ocala, FL, Port St. Lucie, FL,…
Tampa Bay traffic is a nightmare. The financial site Wallethub conducted a 2020 study ranking Tampa Bay as the 9th fastest growing metro area in the country, so it comes as no surprise that traffic is such a headache. More people = more traffic. Last summer, the auto insurance site…
David Gwynn, Florida’s regional transportation secretary, said that the state is looking to make the 13 mile stretch of highway from Tampa to Pasco County safer by installing three traffic signals at dangerous, crash-prone intersections. The state is also researching how to widen the U.S. 301 due to the high…
Thanksgiving is upon us, and that means millions of people are hitting the U.S. roadways to get to their families and friends for the holiday. A spokesman for AAA estimates that 2.6 million Floridians will be road tripping this year (2021), which is 200,000 more than last year. With so…
WalletHub named Tampa the 9th fastest growing city in the United States in 2020, which means tourism and revenue are up in the area, but this also means rush hour traffic can be a nightmare to contend with. At Whittel & Melton, our Tampa Bay Car and Truck Accident Lawyers…
A 47-year-old woman was arrested and charged with her involvement in a hit and run collision with two motorcycles. Clearwater police said that the 47-year-old woman was charged with two counts of leaving the scene of a crash with injury. The hit and run crash happened around 8:30 p.m. Friday…
The Florida Highway Patrol has confirmed that a Plant City man has been arrested on a vehicular homicide charge after a fatal crash Monday night. The 18-year-old Plant City man was apparently racing another driver when the accident happened on State Road 60 near Cassels Road. Reports indicate that the…
The data from Tampa is in, and it shows that while coronavirus has caused many people to stay home, the drivers that are still out are punching the gas. Speeds have increased by at least 7 percent through early this week, according to more than a month’s worth of data…
Three teens are dead after a head-on crash with a semi-tractor trailer on U.S. 92 early Saturday morning in Hillsborough County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. A 17-year-old from Dover and his 15-year-old passenger were killed in the crash. A second passenger, 14, was transported to the hospital in…
A 30-year-old driver accused of killing two people in a wrong-way crash on Sunday at Tampa International Airport made his first court appearance Monday morning. A judge set the man’s bond at $150,000. He faces two charges of DUI manslaughter and two charges of vehicular homicide. The man was allegedly…