When accidents happen in work zones, investigators will look into factors that contributed to the crash, including poor signage and weather conditions. In most traffic accidents, the first step to getting compensation for your injury is to file an insurance claim and to protect yourself against insurers eager to settle the claim for the least amount possible. If you were injured riding a bicycle in a work zone, determining who is responsible for your injuries and damages can be difficult, since there may have been different factors that contributed to the accident. That’s why it’s important to speak to an attorney.
If a car hits you while you’re on a bicycle in Florida, your PIP should help pay for some of your medical bills, although the most that PIP will cover is $10,000. Under Florida law, benefits are given to people “while not an occupant of a self-propelled vehicle.” While most insurance policies use the word “pedestrian” to cover the definition of an occupant, bicycle riders are “pedestrians” under the PIP law. So if you were riding a bicycle, you’d qualify for PIP.
If you were riding a bicycle and got run off the road by another driver, you can end up with a serious injury, and being run off the road by another driver is not uncommon. A lot of these types of accidents are due to distracted driving behind the wheel. Most of the time if two vehicles, including a car and bicycle, don’t make contact, the accident is considered a single-vehicle accident, so you will be charged with an at-fault claim if you file physical damage or medical claim.
No. According to Florida statute 316.2065, a bicycle rider or passenger under 16 years of age must wear a bicycle helmet that’s properly fitted, fastened securely upon the passenger’s head by a strap, and meets the federal safety standard for bicycle helmets. However, we recommend all bicyclists wear helmets regardless of age for added safety in the event of an accident.
Yes. According to Florida statute 316.2065, every bicycle in use between sunset and sunrise must have a white light on the front visible from a distance of at least 500 feet and a red light on the rear of the bike visible from a distance of 600 feet. A bicycle or its rider may use other lights or reflectors in addition to those required by the law.
A St. Petersburg bicycle accident lawyer will take the burden of investigating the crash off your shoulders so you can focus entirely on the recovery of your injuries. Similar to a car accident, these cases can be complex and last for an extended period, so it would be your best option to hire a lawyer. A lawyer can adequately analyze the circumstances for liability, investigate applicable insurance coverage, and protect your rights for accountability.
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We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to