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Located about thirty miles north of Florida, the city of Brunswick is situated in southeastern Georgia. Nicknamed “the shrimp capital of the world,” the area is also well-known for being the center of Georgia’s shrimp and crab industries. Home to the fourth-largest automobile port in the eastern United States, the city's economy encompasses agricultural processing, manufacturing, and bulk cargoes. In 2007, the city proper had an approximate population of 16,235 and an estimated metropolitan population of 101,792.

Brunswick’s metropolitan area is the twelfth-largest in the state of Georgia and includes the counties of Glynn, Brantley, and McIntosh. With a region that encompasses such a large area and a population that is on the rise, a handful of residents and visitors alike who ride motorcycles may find themselves involved in a motorcycle accident at no fault of their own. When another driver’s negligence causes a motorcyclist to suffer serious injuries, the motorcyclist may be able to seek compensation with the help of a skilled Brunswick, Georgia motorcycle accident attorney.

Motorcycle accidents in Georgia can have devastating consequences on a motorcyclist, greatly influencing an injured victim’s life forever. Brain injuries are one of the most common calamities that motorcyclists suffer, even when a helmet is used. At Farah and Farah, our experienced brain injury lawyers have been assisting motorcycle victims and other personal injury victims in receiving the compensation they need to receive adequate medical attention so that the road to rehabilitation after a brain injury can be a smooth one.

In devoting over 25 years to assisting injury victims, the dedicated and aggressive attorneys at Farah and Farah are prepared to take on any motorcycle accident or traumatic brain injury case. All you have to do is call. For a free and confidential consultation of your injury case in Georgia, call Farah and Farah at our Brunswick, Georgia office:

(912) 466-8896
4216 Coral Park Drive,
Suite 107
Brunswick, GA 31520

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This is a story that is quite controversial in Jacksonville and raises some interesting issues.
When a DUI crash injures the driver permanently, confining him to a life in a wheelchair, should he be charged with DUI? And although it shouldn’t matter, the person in question happens to be the son of a Chief Judge.

The 25-year-old driver was driving toward Jacksonville Beach last December, when he tried to exit off J. Turner Butler Boulevard onto the Marsh Landing Parkway exit. The young man flipped his truck and he was ejected from the vehicle. He was taken by life-flight to the hospital and spent months clinging to life. No one knew if he had permanent brain damage.

Police say his blood-alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit at .203 at the time of the crash. A beer can was found at the scene, next to his wallet, but finding a beer can on the side of the road is not an unusual occurrence.

Now his attorney says the state attorney’s office is following some bad advice in charging this young driver. A prominent DUI attorney in Jacksonville representing the accused says he can’t understand why someone, now a paraplegic for the rest of his life would still face charges.
Not wanting to look like she is giving the judge’s son a pass, the prosecutor waited until the young man got out of the hospital to file charges. “She is not going to prosecute someone solely because of who they are,” said her office.

The accused in this incident is pleading not guilty.

Our condolences go out to the judge and his family for this tragic turn of events.

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A man lost control on a motorcycle early Thursday morning on the State Road 312 bridge in St. Augustine, according to police.

He was reportedly racing a car on the well-traveled bridge when he lost control around 1 a.m. But this time the rider was lucky. He was flown to Shands Medical Center in Jacksonville and had a possible broken arm and leg. No word on whether he was wearing a helmet.

Charges may be pending against the motorcyclist. There is no word on what happened to the car he was racing. This was the third crash on the SR-312 bridge this week.

In 2000, when Florida eliminated the legal requirement that motorcycle riders wear helmets, if they are over the age of 21 and carry at least $10,000 in medical insurance, motorcycle fatalities increased by 81 percent. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports there was a 40 percent increase in the number of injured motorcyclists admitted to hospitals.
If you think this doesn’t affect you, think again.

The average head injury treatment was more than $45,000 a decade ago and head-brain-skull injury treatment averaged more than $428,000. By the years 2001 and 2002, those numbers had increased to more than $610,000. Fast-forward seven years and you can see how the cost of treating injuries following a motorcycle accident is an unnecessary burden on society.

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With school now underway, parents of teenage and younger girls might want to know about a new report that points to high school cheerleading as the leading cause of catastrophic high school sports injuries.

The report is released by the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research. High school cheerleading accounted for 65.1 percent of all catastrophic sports injuries among high school females over the past 25 years.

That number was at 55 percent in last year’s study. Researchers believe the actual number of injuries was being underreported.

What kind of injuries? Unlike the past, cheerleaders of today resemble Olympic athletes complete with floor routines involving back flips, pyramids, and flying stunts in the air. If these activities are not taught with a competent coach, traumatic injuries will continue to be a growing part of cheerleading.

In college, cheerleading accounted for 66.7 percent of all female sports catastrophic injuries, up from 59.4 percent.

The medical journal, Pediatrics, published the breakdown in 2006:

• Strains/sprains: 52.4 percent


• Soft tissue injuries: 18.4 percent


• Fractures/dislocations: 16.4 percent


• Lacerations/avulsions: 3.8 percent


• Concussions/closed head injuries: 3.5 percent


• Other: 5.5 percent

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The father of two toddlers pulled them from the family Westside swimming pool Saturday morning, according to a story. Unfortunately it was too late for little two-year-old and her 18-month-old sister.

The family had just moved into the rented home the night before, so the pool area had not yet been secured at the house on Niska Trail near Collins Road. Apparently the two little girls woke up around 8:30 and got out of bed. That’s when officers believe the older girl opened the door to the backyard and went to the pool with her little sister following. The father found the girls at the bottom of the pool about a half hour later. One girl went to Baptist Medical Center and the other to Orange Park Regional Medical Center but neither could be revived.

Our prayers go out to this family who lost two little children. Our deepest sympathies go out to this family for their double tragedy.

Drowning accidents are the leading cause of injuries and wrongful deaths in Florida among children under 5, and are entirely preventable, although in this case, it is easy to understand how a family, their first day in a new home, would not have had time to childproof the house thoroughly.

In Florida in 2006, 72 children drowned in pools, up from 67 children from the year before. Duval County is one of the top counties for child drowning and most occur in a backyard pool or spa.

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