Fort Lauderdale Car Accident Lawyer — Felicetti Law Firm
Broward County’s crash problem is unusually concentrated. The county has more than 5,000 miles of public road, but almost all of the death and life-changing injury happens on a tiny fraction of them — and if your crash happened on one of those streets, that fact is worth knowing early.
Seventy-seven percent of the harm, six percent of the streets
The Broward Metropolitan Planning Organization found that 77 percent of crashes that kill or seriously injure someone happen on just 6 percent of Broward’s streets, and that 37 percent of them occur between 3pm and 9pm. The high-risk streets share a profile: six or more lanes, posted speeds of 40 to 50 mph, and classification as a principal arterial.
That profile describes a great deal of Fort Lauderdale. It also matters to your case, because a road that a public agency has already identified as dangerous is a road with a paper trail — studies, counts, project plans — that can be obtained.
Two corridors the state is already spending money on
US 1 at Sunrise Boulevard is the subject of a formal FDOT project development study, opened because of congestion, delay and safety at that junction. Separately, a $55 million FDOT project running to 2029 is rebuilding the Sunrise Boulevard bridge over I-95 and extending improvements east to US 1. When the state commits that kind of money to a junction, it is not because the junction is working.
Where the case is heard
Broward injury claims are filed in the Circuit Civil division of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, which handles automobile negligence, professional malpractice and product liability. The main building is the Broward County Judicial Complex at 201 SE 6th Street in downtown Fort Lauderdale.
A port and an airport pointed at the same interchange
Port Everglades is the 15th busiest container port in the country and set a record of 1.167 million TEUs in the 2025 financial year. Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International handled 32.2 million passengers in 2025. Container trucks and rental cars driven by people who have never seen these roads before feed onto the same stretch of I-595 and I-95, often within a mile of each other. Rental and commercial vehicles also bring extra layers of insurance, which is usually good news for an injured claimant and always a reason to identify every policy early.
Two years to sue, and a cliff edge at fifty percent
Florida’s 2023 tort reform did two things that matter to every Broward crash claim. It shortened the window for filing a negligence suit from four years to two, and it replaced pure comparative fault with a modified version.
The second change is the one insurers have learned to use. Under the old rule, being assigned thirty or sixty percent of the blame simply cut your recovery by that much. Now, anything above fifty percent takes the claim to zero. That turns the argument about apportionment into an argument about whether you recover at all, and it is why a defense adjuster’s early questions so often steer toward what you could have done differently. Medical malpractice claims are exempt and still use the pure comparative standard.
Trauma care in Broward
Broward Health Medical Center on South Andrews Avenue is the Level I trauma center in Fort Lauderdale itself; Memorial Regional in Hollywood is also Level I and Broward Health North in Deerfield Beach is Level II. Which one you were taken to is not a detail — it shapes the records, the billing, and often the hospital lien that has to be resolved out of any settlement.
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