The Chevrolet Corvette is a proud icon of the American motor industry. It is not built to be a crash barrier for drunk drivers, yet that’s exactly what happened at Tropical Chevy in Miami Shores earlier this month. In the early hours of December 14th a drunk driver lost control…
Sure we’ve already had local police officers driving 120 mph to get to their second jobs and passing out drunk and half-naked in their squad cars. Now we’ve got a City of Miami officer who somehow managed to drive his police car up a pole this morning. No, literally, up…
Paul Bennett spent $3,000 on his 1983 Nissan Maxima. The Miami International Airport mechanic guesses he’s sunk another $15,000 in DIY renovations, turning the vehicle, which has 200,000-plus miles, into a creation straight out of Mad Max. First, so he could safely leave his dogs in the car, Bennett bought…
The only surprise here is that we’re not ranked first. Between Miami’s unique brand at driving, old folks who flock to other parts of the state, and people who drive pick ups with truck nuts in our more rural area, no one is going to make a claim that Floridians…
Alligator Alley may be one of the country’s most boring drives, unless, of course, you happen to be joy riding in a stolen BMW while drunk. That’s what Miami resident Richard Jouel Abraham allegedly did yesterday, but now he’s sitting in the slammer…
Commuting on Florida’s highways often feels like bumper cars with Ferrari engines. So what would happen if those heavy-footed douches no longer faced the specter of speeding tickets?Thanks to a couple of enterprising young entrepreneurs, we might just find out. Indian River County’s Ian Sidles, age 25, and Dustin Boring,…
Few details are immediately available, but a small plane appears to have crash-landed on a stretch of Florida’s Turnpike near Hollywood. Northbound lanes are closed. Updated…
Close to 30 bicyclists were involved in an accident this morning on the Rickenbacker Causeway that sent three people to the hospital and injured several others. A large peloton was riding across the Key Biscayne bridge at up to 35 mph when some bikes lost control…
“I’m a hot, sexy chick, and I don’t like people fucking with me.” Such is the battle call of “Jozy” — born Ira Deford — a preop South Beach transsexual who this month took a historic stand in traffic court after bashing the side mirror of a blood bank’s bus…
Driving through South Florida is about to get a little more expensive. Toll roads operated by the Florida Department of Transportation will see toll raises put in place by June 30, 2012. That includes the Florida Turnpike, the Sawgrass Expressway and Alligator Alley. Express lanes on I-95 and road that…
From red-light cameras to toll lanes popping up on roads you’ve traveled free of charge for years, Florida is always busy devising ways to get over on drivers. Here’s the thing: Just ’cause the state — or its officers — does it, doesn’t mean it’s legal. A class-action suit filed…
Alberto De Jesus Coteron Oliva, 19, tried to pull his best The Fast and the Furious moves over the weekend. Now he sits in jail for killing three teenage passengers in his car Sunday night and fleeing after the accident…
It’s been a strange week for Miami Heat star-turned-executive Alonzo Mourning. He was involved in an alleged hit-and-run accident, with the other driver filing a lawsuit. He then hosted his annual Zo’s Summer Grove charity weekend only to have Dave Chappelle involved in a metaphoric on-stage car crash. Now he…
A few months back, Riptide wrote about Ken Bereski, an IT consultant who’s become the Howard Beale to Miami’s cyclists who deal daily with life-threateningly awful drivers. Bereski was mad as hell, so he strapped cameras to his bike and started filming all the dangerous driving.Well this month, Bereski got…
Warning: walking in South Florida may be dangerous, as if you already weren’t aware. According to a new report by transportation reform group Transportation for America, the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale-Palm Beach metro area is the third most dangerous city for pedestrians in the entire county, and Florida cities dominate the list…
Well, that didn’t take long.It’s only been a few weeks since DecoBike installed its eco-friendly beach cruisers all over South Beach, yet someone has already hacked one in half with a saw.But despite the vandalism — and some customer confusion over when to return the silver bicycles — DecoBike seems…
If this were any other city in the world, the sight of a Playboy Playmate in six-inch stilettos and skintight jeans wobbling down the street on a beach cruiser would be an odd way of unveiling a new bike share.But this is Miami Beach. And despite our recent criticism of…
Just about everyone with a cerebral cortex agrees the planet is getting warmer, and we driver assholes are the ones to blame. So it’s hard to hate on efforts that encourages us to ditch our gas-guzzlers and put some effort into getting around town. But we’ll make an exception for…
It’s late on Super Bowl Sunday when a sedan barrels through the bike lane on 16th Street at Alton Road, right at cyclist Ken Bereski. Bereski slams on his handbrakes and swerves. The car squeals to a halt inches from his tire. “Learn to drive!” Bereski hollers. “You got a problem?”…
Traffic was snarled this morning in downtown after a man died in a car crash after his car was hit by another vehicle traveling the wrong way down the MacArthur Causeway. The accident happened at about 3:20 a.m. when 22-year-old Omar Bravo was driving westward on the eastbound lanes of…
There are certain things that studies and data analysis don’t really need to tell us, like, for example, that the commute-time traffic in Miami is pretty horrible. Yet, whenever these scientist or mathematicians or data-obsessed journalists tell us something we already know, and perhaps rank it, we feel validated. “See,…
Thirty-two percent of all traffic-related deaths in 2008, the most recent year for which statistics are available, were caused by drunk drivers. Several more were caused by drivers under the influence of drugs. That means more than 32 percent of traffic-related deaths could have been avoided if drivers didn’t get…
