Pedestrian Accidents in Coral Springs, FL

The Coral Springs Police Department works crashes inside the city. On the Sawgrass Expressway and Florida's Turnpike, Florida Highway Patrol usually responds. Either report is filed with FLHSMV and can be requested through the state crash portal or from the agency that wrote it. If the crash happened at a city intersection, the case number the officer gives you is the fastest way to find it.

Broward County, in the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, and filings go downtown to Fort Lauderdale. Coral Springs sits near the Palm Beach County line, so a crash a short drive north could put your case in the Fifteenth Circuit instead. County court handles smaller civil claims and circuit court the larger ones. Which one applies is a legal question, and we are not a law firm.

Florida Highway Patrol usually works the Sawgrass, since it's a state toll road rather than a city street. That means the report comes from FHP and not from Coral Springs Police, and you request it the same way through FLHSMV. Speeds are higher out there than on Wiles Road, and more vehicles usually means more insurers on the file, which is when the story starts changing.

In Florida, the deadline is generally 2 years from the date of the accident. Reduced from 4 to 2 years by HB 837 (2023). Wrongful death 2 years. Medical 2 years. Deadlines are strict — the sooner you act, the more options you have.