Miami Beach Fatal Car Pedestrian Accident: NFL's Stallworth Says He Tried to Warn Victim
Donte Stallworth, wide receiver for the NFL Cleveland Browns, was involved in a Miami Beach pedestrian car accident earlier this month that left a construction worker dead.
According to police reports, crane operator Mario Reyes, 59, was hurrying across MacArthur Causeway to catch a bus around 7:15 a.m. on March 14. Reyes was not in a crosswalk. MacArthur Causeway is a six-lane highway that connects Miami Beach with downtown Miami, Florida. Stallworth, who was driving his Bentley, told police he flashed his lights to warn the man, but it was too late. Stallworth's vehicle struck the Miami construction worker in the far left lane of the Causeway, and Stallworth stopped a few feet later.
A Miami Florida pedestrian accident attorney familiar with car-pedestrian crashes and wrongful death cases is qualified to help determine liability in tragic cases such as this one.
Police report that Stallworth was driving about 50 mph in a 40 mph zone. He has not been charged pending blood tests to determine if alcohol was a factor in this fatal MacArthur Causeway car pedestrian accident. Stallworth's attorney reports that his client is "grief stricken" over the fatal Miami Beach car-pedestrian accident.
Though the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that car-pedestrian fatalities have declined by 40% since the 1970s thanks to road engineering improvements and public safety initiatives -- in dense urban areas, pedestrians can account for up to 25% of all traffic deaths due to the high volume of people on foot and in vehicles trying to get where they're going (NHTSA, Evaluation of the Miami-Dade Pedestrian Safety Demonstration Project, June 2008).
Police: Stallworth says warned man before impact
Yahoo! Sports -- Associated Press March 25, 2009
Stallworth hits, kills man on Miami Beach, according to officials
South Florida SunSentinel.com March 15, 2009
Related Web Resources
Wikipedia: MacArthur Causeway
