West Palm Beach personal injury lawyer

Palm Beach County publishes which streets produce its worst crashes. More than twenty West Palm Beach roads made the county’s list.

The Palm Beach Transportation Planning Agency maintains a High Injury Network: the roadway segments carrying the heaviest concentration of fatal and serious injury crashes in the county. Its 2025 Vision Zero Action Plan puts that network at 130 corridors covering 276 miles and reports that 38 percent of fatal crashes and 36 percent of serious injury crashes happen on 4 percent of the county’s streets. Ninety-five percent of the network is posted at 35 miles per hour or higher. West Palm Beach adopted Vision Zero as city policy on August 13, 2018, in Resolution 244-18, which set the goal of zero traffic deaths on city streets.

The agency scores each road four separate ways: all crashes, pedestrian crashes, bicycle crashes, and crashes in the dark or on unlit roadway. A road that qualifies on all four is the worst case the county measures. Here are the main West Palm Beach streets on the 2025 network, with what the data flags and who is responsible for each road.

Forest Hill Boulevard, Lakeview Avenue, North and South Quadrille Boulevard, 25th Street, Royal Palm Way and a stretch of Congress Avenue are also on the network. Three of the streets above are city-maintained and the rest belong to the county or the state, which matters if the road itself helped cause a crash.

Two findings in the plan matter more to a claim than the totals do. The first is crash type: the most common fatal and serious injury crashes on the network are angle, left turn and rear end collisions. The second is railroad crossings. The city’s own railroad safety page counts 47 at-grade crossings in West Palm Beach, 14 on the South Florida Rail Corridor and 33 on the FEC line that Brightline shares. See what to do if you’re hit by a train at a crossing.

Angle and left-turn crashes are the ones insurers fight, because the damage alone rarely settles who had the right of way. That’s where Florida Statute 768.81 does its work: a claimant found more than 50 percent responsible recovers nothing, and below that line the recovery is cut by the share assigned. An adjuster who asks about your speed and your line of sight is building a fault argument. For more, see what the 51 percent bar covers, and what it doesn’t.

Rear-end crashes have the opposite problem. Fault is usually conceded and the fight moves to the injury: whether a neck or back complaint came from this crash or from something older. That argument is won or lost in the medical records, which is why the 14-day deadline in Florida Statute 627.736(1)(a) ends more claims than any dispute about fault. See how Paul handles a Palm Beach County car accident claim.

Three practical facts about a West Palm Beach claim that are easier to establish now than six months from now.

The hospital. The Florida Department of Health’s trauma center list, updated July 23, 2026, shows two Level I trauma centers in Palm Beach County: Delray Medical Center and St. Mary’s Medical Center. Palm Beach County Fire Rescue divides them at Southern Boulevard, with St. Mary’s taking traumatic injuries to the north and Delray Medical Center the south. West Palm Beach is north of that line, so a serious trauma from the city normally goes to St. Mary’s. That matters to the claim because the trauma record is where the injury gets documented: the imaging, the admission note and the discharge summary are what an adjuster and later a jury read. If you went by ambulance, the 14-day treatment deadline took care of itself. The claims that die on that deadline belong to people who declined transport, felt worse on day three and waited. For more, see pain that starts days after a crash and the order coverage pays your medical bills in.

The road. Who maintains the road decides who can be sued if the road itself helped cause the crash. In West Palm Beach, Okeechobee Boulevard, Broadway, North and South Dixie Highway, North Military Trail and Southern Boulevard are state roads under FDOT. Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard, North Congress Avenue, 45th Street, Belvedere Road, North Australian Avenue and Greenwood Avenue are county roads. Spencer Drive, North Olive Avenue and 24th Street are city streets. A claim against any of them runs through Florida Statute 768.28, which requires written notice before suit and limits how much can be recovered, so it has to be handled early and carefully. See every deadline that can end a Florida injury claim, with the statute for each.

The courthouse. West Palm Beach is in the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, and the courthouse is at 205 North Dixie Highway, about half a mile in a straight line from Paul’s office. Under Florida Statute 34.01(1)(c)3, county court handles actions filed on or after January 1, 2023 where the amount in controversy is $50,000 or less, and anything above that is a circuit court case. Most claims settle and never see the building, but when one doesn’t, Paul is already downtown. See Paul’s trial background.

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