West Palm Beach Car Accident Lawyer — Felicetti Law Firm
Palm Beach County publishes crash counts for its two hundred busiest intersections every year. For most of the last decade, the worst one in the entire county has been in West Palm Beach — and it is not close.
Okeechobee Boulevard at Military Trail
County traffic engineers recorded 119 crashes at Okeechobee Boulevard and Military Trail in 2024, up from 92 the year before — the highest total of any intersection in Palm Beach County. It is not a new problem: the same junction topped the list in 2018 with 123 crashes, its fifth consecutive year in first place. South Military Trail at Forest Hill Boulevard came second in 2024 with 101.
Countywide, those two hundred intersections produced 9,246 crashes in 2024, a 36 percent rise since 2020. If your collision happened at a junction with that kind of documented history, the history itself can matter — to notice, to the design of the intersection, and sometimes to who else shares responsibility.
Trauma Hawk and the Southern Boulevard line
Palm Beach County runs something most counties do not: Trauma Hawk, its own two-helicopter aeromedical service, operating since 1990 as a partnership between County Fire Rescue and the Health Care District. Where it takes you depends on a line drawn across the county at Southern Boulevard. Patients injured north of it go to St. Mary’s Medical Center on 45th Street, a Level I trauma centre and the state-designated paediatric trauma referral centre. South of that line, patients go to Delray Medical Center.
For a West Palm Beach crash that usually means St. Mary’s — and it means your records, your bills and any hospital lien will sit with that system.
Filing in the Fifteenth Circuit
Palm Beach County injury suits are filed in the Circuit Civil division of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, at the Judge Daniel T. K. Hurley Courthouse, 205 North Dixie Highway in downtown West Palm Beach.
Counting the two years, and the exceptions that move it
Since House Bill 837 took effect on 24 March 2023, a Florida negligence claim must be filed within two years rather than the four the state allowed for decades. The clock ordinarily runs from the date of the crash, which sounds simple until a claim involves a minor, a government vehicle, or an injury that only declares itself months later. Each of those can shift the date, and none of them should be guessed at.
On fault, Florida now bars recovery entirely where a claimant is found more than fifty percent responsible, instead of reducing damages proportionally at every level. Below that threshold your award is still reduced by your share. Medical negligence claims kept the older pure comparative rule and their own timetable.
What we do first
In a case built around an intersection with a documented crash history, the early work is evidentiary: securing signal timing and maintenance records before they cycle out, identifying every camera with a view of the junction, and locating witnesses while they still remember which light was green. Insurers move quickly after a serious crash. There is rarely an advantage in waiting.
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. This page is general information about Florida law, not legal advice, and does not create an attorney-client relationship. Deadlines and fault rules have exceptions; only a review of your own facts can tell you which apply. Cases are handled by attorneys licensed in the local jurisdiction.