Where Trinity’s serious crashes happen
Pasco County averages roughly 100 traffic deaths and more than 1,000 serious injuries a year in the five-year figures the Pasco County MPO reports from FLHSMV data, and the SR 54 corridor from Little Road to the Suncoast Parkway, which runs through Trinity, is one of the county’s fastest-growing crash zones. The roads that fill our Trinity files:
- State Road 54 from Little Road to the Suncoast Parkway: Trinity’s main east-west road and its highest-volume one, six lanes of plazas, the hospital and the subdivision entrances, with rear-end chains and left-turn crashes at Little Road, Mitchell Boulevard, Trinity Boulevard, Duck Slough Boulevard and Starkey Boulevard.
- The Suncoast Parkway (SR 589) at SR 54: high-speed merging traffic at the Trinity interchange, with rear-end and lane-change crashes on the ramps and wrong-way entries at night.
- Little Road (CR 1) from Trinity to New Port Richey and US-19: the north-south route past the Trinity shopping centers and the schools, with dense local traffic and left turns across four lanes.
- Mitchell Boulevard: the loop through Trinity’s neighborhoods, busiest where it meets SR 54, Trinity Boulevard and Duck Slough Boulevard, with school zones and roundabouts.
- Trinity Boulevard and Duck Slough Boulevard: the connectors past our office, the shopping centers, the schools and the medical offices, with pedestrians, cyclists and golf carts, running west to East Lake Road and the Pinellas line.
- Seven Springs Boulevard and Perrine Ranch Road: the older two-lane roads to Seven Springs and New Port Richey, with stop-controlled side streets and poor lighting.
If you were hurt on one of these roads, cameras, event data and witnesses exist for days, not months. Contact us as soon as you can so we can preserve them.
Personal injury cases we handle in Trinity
Car accidents
SR 54 rear-end chains and left turns, Suncoast ramp merges, Little Road intersection crashes and uninsured drivers. Florida’s no-fault rules, the permanent-injury threshold and comparative fault decide these cases, and we explain each below. Trinity car accidents and the Florida car accident practice page.
Truck and commercial vehicle accidents
Delivery fleets on SR 54 and Little Road, the dump trucks serving Starkey Ranch and the last Trinity subdivisions, and the semis on the Suncoast Parkway. These cases turn on federal hours-of-service and maintenance records and on reaching the truck’s data before it is overwritten. Truck accidents.
Motorcycle accidents
SR 54 and Little Road put riders next to drivers who turn without looking. Drivers who “didn’t see” a motorcycle are still responsible for the injuries they cause. Motorcycle accidents.
Pedestrian, bicycle and golf-cart accidents
Trinity’s neighborhoods run on golf carts and bicycles, the Starkey Ranch trails cross the arterials, and SR 54 has few crossings and long blocks. Pedestrians and cyclists have the same right to recover as anyone else, and your own PIP policy covers you on foot. Pedestrian accidents.
Rideshare, hit-and-run and drunk-driving crashes
Uber and Lyft crashes, hit-and-run claims paid through uninsured motorist coverage, and drunk-driving cases that can include a dram shop claim against the bar.
Slip and fall and premises injuries
The shopping centers at SR 54 and Little Road and along Mitchell Boulevard, restaurants, the medical offices around the hospital, apartment complexes and parking lots. Florida requires proof the business knew or should have known of the hazard, and surveillance video is overwritten within days. Slip and fall accidents.
Negligent security
Assaults and shootings at apartment complexes, gas stations, bars and motels where the owner ignored known crime and skipped basic lighting, cameras or staffing. Negligent security.
Dog bites
Strict liability for the owner, usually paid by homeowner’s insurance. Dog bites.
Wrongful death
When a crash or a fall takes a family member, Florida’s Wrongful Death Act allows the estate and the surviving spouse, children and parents to recover lost support, funeral and medical expenses and the loss of companionship. Wrongful death.
Insurance and PIP disputes
Carriers that cut off benefits, deny treatment as unrelated or lowball uninsured motorist claims. Insurance claims and personal injury protection.
The Florida law that decides a Trinity injury claim
Two years to file. Florida’s statute of limitations for negligence is two years from the injury (Florida Statutes § 95.11), the same as for wrongful death. Claims against Pasco County, the school district, FDOT, the Turnpike Enterprise or another state agency carry separate notice requirements under § 768.28 and should be opened early.
Modified comparative negligence. Under § 768.81 a jury’s finding that you were 50 percent or less at fault reduces your award by that share; 51 percent or more bars recovery. Insurers build your share in recorded statements. Do not give one without counsel.
No-fault first. Florida requires $10,000 of personal injury protection on every registered car (§ 627.736). It pays 80 percent of medical bills and 60 percent of lost wages up to that limit, only if you are seen by a medical provider within 14 days, and only $2,500 of it unless a physician documents an emergency medical condition.
Pain and suffering needs a permanent injury. Non-economic damages against the at-fault driver require proof of a permanent injury within a reasonable degree of medical probability, significant scarring, or death (§ 627.737). Consistent treatment and imaging supply that proof.
Uninsured drivers. Florida does not require bodily injury coverage and roughly one driver in five carries none. Uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage on your own policy, and on the policies of relatives in your household, is often the largest source of recovery in a Trinity crash. We read every policy in the household before we value a case.
Premises and security cases. A business owes its customers reasonable care; for a fall on a transitory substance, § 768.0755 requires proof the business knew or should have known of it, which is why video, inspection logs and incident reports matter. For negligent security, prior crime at and around the property is the evidence, and the Sheriff’s Office’s call records make it available.
What changed in 2023. Juries now hear what was paid or owed for treatment rather than billed charges; letters of protection are disclosed with the referral; and bad-faith claims against insurers require the insurer to have been given a fair chance to pay. Cases built correctly from the first appointment do well under these rules.
What you can recover. Medical expenses past and future, lost wages and earning capacity, out-of-pocket costs, property damage, and, where the injury is permanent, pain, suffering, disability, disfigurement, mental anguish and loss of enjoyment of life. Florida places no cap on these damages in an ordinary negligence case. A spouse may claim loss of consortium.
Trinity resources after an accident
In an emergency, call 911. These are the agencies and facilities a Trinity injury claim runs through.
Courthouse
Civil cases from West Pasco are heard in the Sixth Judicial Circuit at the West Pasco Judicial Center, 7530 Little Road, New Port Richey, FL 34654, with the Pasco County Clerk & Comptroller’s records office in the same complex, 15 minutes from our office. Most of our cases settle without a lawsuit; the ones that do not are filed here, before judges our attorneys appear in front of regularly.
Crash reports and police
Trinity is unincorporated, so crashes on its streets are investigated by the Pasco Sheriff’s Office, 8700 Citizen Drive, New Port Richey, FL 34654; crashes on SR 54 and the Suncoast Parkway often by Florida Highway Patrol Troop C; crashes west of the county line, in East Lake, by the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office. Reports are available to the people involved through FLHSMV’s Florida Crash Portal within a few days; we obtain them for every client, along with body-camera and dash-camera video.
Hospitals
HCA Florida Trinity Hospital, 9330 State Road 54, Trinity, FL 34655, a few minutes from our office; BayCare Morton Plant North Bay Hospital, 6600 Madison Street, New Port Richey, FL 34652; Mease Countryside Hospital, 3231 McMullen Booth Road, Safety Harbor, FL 34695; and, for the most serious injuries, HCA Florida Bayonet Point Hospital, 14000 Fivay Road, Hudson, FL 34667, the Level II trauma center for Pasco and Hernando counties.
Fire and EMS
Pasco County Fire Rescue responds countywide, and its run reports are part of every file we build.
If you were treated at any of these facilities after someone else’s negligence, keep every discharge paper and bill; they are the first documents we ask for.
Results for injured clients in Pasco County and across Florida
Kemp Law Group has recovered over $400 million in settlements since 2008. Recoveries confirmed from the firm’s case records include:
- $2,415,000 for a motorcycle rider with a traumatic brain injury struck by a car
- $2,000,000 for the family of a driver killed by a commercial carrier’s truck
- $2,000,000 for a 64-year-old pedestrian struck while crossing the road
- $1,500,000 for a driver rear-ended in stopped traffic by a commercial truck whose driver fell asleep
- $1,250,000 for a motorcyclist hit by a truck that failed to yield
- $1,150,000 for a passenger in a pickup struck by a semi on State Road 56 in Pasco County
- $1,102,000 for a driver hit by a landscaping company’s vehicle
Every case is different, and past results do not guarantee a particular outcome. See more case results.
Who handles your Trinity case
Stacy Kemp Ferrari founded Kemp Law Group in 2008 and owns it today. A graduate of Saint Leo University and Stetson University College of Law, admitted to The Florida Bar in 2008, she has spent her career representing injured people in Pasco County and the rest of Tampa Bay. Cases that need a courtroom are prepared by the litigation team under managing litigation attorney Ian Boettcher. From your first call, a member of our team takes the time to understand what happened, and an attorney reviews every case and stays involved from intake to resolution.
The office holds a 4.9-star rating across more than 900 Google reviews, many from clients in Trinity, Seven Springs, Starkey Ranch and New Port Richey.
Visiting our Trinity office
Kemp Law Group is at 11567 Trinity Boulevard, Trinity, FL 34655, on Trinity Boulevard, a few minutes from HCA Florida Trinity Hospital and the SR 54 shopping centers, with free parking at the door. From New Port Richey or Hudson take Little Road south to Trinity Boulevard; from Tampa, the Veterans Expressway and Suncoast Parkway to State Road 54 west, then Little Road south; from East Lake and Tarpon Springs, Trinity Boulevard runs straight in from East Lake Road. Walk-ins are welcome during business hours, and we meet clients who cannot travel at home or in the hospital. Bring the crash report or its number, photos, the insurance cards for every vehicle involved, your own policy, and any medical paperwork you have; if you do not have them yet, we will get them.
Trinity personal injury questions
Where exactly is your office?
At 11567 Trinity Boulevard, Trinity, FL 34655, on Trinity Boulevard a few minutes from HCA Florida Trinity Hospital, with free parking at the door. Walk in, call or text 727-847-4878 for an appointment, or have us come to you at home or in the hospital.
Do I need a personal injury lawyer for a Trinity accident?
Usually, yes, if you were hurt. A lawyer investigates the crash, gathers the police report, camera footage and medical records, files your claim within Florida’s deadlines, proves fault under Florida law and negotiates with insurers whose job is to pay as little as possible. The consultation is free, so the question costs nothing to ask.
How long do I have to file a claim in Pasco County?
Two years from the date of injury for negligence and wrongful death claims. Claims against Pasco County, the school district, FDOT or the Turnpike Enterprise have earlier notice deadlines, so call sooner if a government vehicle or property was involved.
What if the insurer says I was partly at fault?
Florida reduces your recovery by your share of fault and bars it entirely at 51 percent or more. Adjusters assign fault to limit payouts; we investigate independently, pull camera footage and vehicle data, and advise clients not to give recorded statements before speaking with us.
The driver who hit me had no insurance.
We look first to the uninsured motorist coverage on your policy and on the policies of relatives you live with, then to any other responsible party: an employer, a vehicle owner, a bar that over-served a drunk driver.
Where would my case be filed?
In the Sixth Judicial Circuit at the West Pasco Judicial Center on Little Road, 15 minutes from our office. Most cases settle without a lawsuit, and most lawsuits settle before trial; we prepare every case as though a Pasco County jury will hear it.
What does a Trinity personal injury lawyer cost?
Nothing up front. Our fee is a percentage of the recovery set by Florida Bar rules and explained in writing before you sign, and you owe no fees and no costs unless we win. The consultation is free.
Talk to a Trinity personal injury lawyer today
The insurer already has adjusters, investigators and lawyers on your case. You should have the same. Call or text 727-847-4878 or contact us online for a free consultation, 24 hours a day. We will tell you honestly whether you have a case, what it is likely worth, and what happens next, and you owe no fees and no costs unless we win.
Kemp Law Group, 11567 Trinity Boulevard, Trinity, FL 34655. Serving Trinity, Seven Springs, Starkey Ranch, Odessa, New Port Richey, East Lake and all of West Pasco County from our office on Trinity Boulevard, with home and hospital visits anywhere in Tampa Bay.
The hiring of a lawyer is an important decision that should not be based solely upon advertisements. Past results do not guarantee future outcomes.
