Truck Accidents in Port St. Lucie, FL

The Port St. Lucie Police Department covers crashes inside the city. Outside the limits it's the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office, and on I-95 and the Turnpike it's usually Florida Highway Patrol. All three file with FLHSMV, so the state crash portal is one place to look and the responding agency is the other. Get the case number before you leave the scene.

St. Lucie County, in the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit. That circuit also covers Martin, Indian River, and Okeechobee counties, which matters if your crash happened on I-95 a few exits north or south of home. Smaller civil claims are heard in county court and larger ones in circuit court. Where yours belongs depends on the amount, and that's for a lawyer to say.

Weather doesn't move the deadline. Two years is two years, storm or no storm. What weather does change is evidence: standing water on Gatlin, a signal out at Becker Road, debris on the Crosstown Parkway. Photograph the road conditions if you can do it safely, because by the time an adjuster looks at the file, the water is gone and the light is working again.

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.