When police arrested 25-year-old Michele Traverso yesterday on charges that he fatally struck a cyclist on the Rickenbacker Causeway before speeding away, Miami cyclists felt a tragic sense of déjà vu. Just over two years ago, police say another young driver named Carlos Bertonatti ran after fatally hitting another cyclist…
Aaron Cohen, one of the two bicyclist who were injured in an early morning hit-and-run car crash on the Rickenbacker Causeway on Wednesday morning, has died.Meanwhile, police have arrested the driver Michele Traverso, 25, after he turned himself in early this morning. Traverso was driving with a suspended license and…
Miami is infamous for its bad drivers. Climbing behind the wheel is a contact sport here, like running through Little Havana with an “I (heart) Fidel Castro” T-shirt on.So, prompted by a reader complaint, we requested records on the county’s most dangerous intersections. It seems the chances of getting into…
In South Florida, 92,112 workers take public transportation to work. Which sure sounds like a lot — and indeed leads the state in pure numbers — but with a workforce of more than 2,500,000 in the tri-county area, that means only 3.68 percent of workers use public transit, according to a new…
A Florida law requires all bicyclists to keep at least one hand on a handlebar while riding their bike at all times, which, of course, prevents show offs from looking totally awesome. Republican Rep. Ellyn Bogdanoff may have been unsuccessful in her attempt to bring Las Vegas-style casinos to Florida…
For the second time in a matter of months a South Florida woman has been killed in after being run over by her own car. The latest incident happened Sunday around 11 p.m. in the 4200 block of Northwest Fourth Street in Miami according to The Miami Herald…
We’re not going to say that bicyclists are better than everyone. We’re just going to tell you that LeBron James rode his bicycle to work yesterday and then made one of the most awesome slam dunks in NBA history by literally jumping over an opponent. We’re going to let you…
It’s a slippery slope down the path of transportation socialism, ain’t it? First it starts with public buses, then the City of Miami Beach got a taste of bike sharing with DecoBike, and now the city is about to launch a car sharing service. The city has partnered with Hertz…
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…
