Pedestrian Accidents in Hialeah, FL

The Hialeah Police Department works crashes on city streets. Florida Highway Patrol usually takes the Palmetto Expressway and Okeechobee Road where it runs as US-27. The report goes to FLHSMV, and you can request it through the state crash portal or from the agency that responded. Ask the officer for a case number before the tow truck leaves, because tracking the report down later without it is slow.

Miami-Dade County. Hialeah sits inside it, so a suit is filed in the Miami-Dade County courts and heard in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit. County court handles the smaller civil claims and circuit court the larger ones, and the dividing line is about the amount, not about how badly you were hurt. An attorney licensed in Florida can tell you which side you're on. We can't.

Yes. These pages run in both languages, and you can tell us what happened in Spanish. We pass your language preference along with the rest of your information, so the attorney who calls knows before picking up the phone. One caution: insurance paperwork and court filings are still in English, and a recorded statement given in a second language can be used against you the same way as one given in the first.

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.