Car Accident Doctor 15 Minutes North of Oakland Park Boulevard

A car accident doctor for Fort Lauderdale is fifteen minutes north on US-1. Car Accident Doctors Group, the accident-injury practice of Dr. Carol McNamara-Krauss, DC, is at 3320 N Federal Hwy #107 in Lighthouse Point, between Copans Road and Sample Road. For Coral Ridge, Imperial Point, Bermuda Riviera and the Galt Ocean Mile, the trip is a straight run up Federal Highway. For downtown and Victoria Park, I-95 to Copans Road is faster.

Fort Lauderdale has plenty of clinics. Patients and law offices choose ours for three reasons: the exam happens the day you call, treatment starts the same visit, and the records are built in a proprietary case documentation system designed in consultation with personal injury attorneys. Janelle Deal, our Attorney-Patient Case Coordinator, has 30 years in Florida PIP claims and speaks Spanish. Call (754) 342-6479, answered 24/7.

Fort Lauderdale's crash corridors run east to west: Oakland Park Boulevard, Commercial Boulevard, Sunrise Boulevard and Broward Boulevard, each with an I-95 interchange and each crossing Federal Highway at a signal that backs up for blocks. The I-95 stretch from Broward Boulevard north to Cypress Creek Road is the busiest in the county, and the lane changes near the Sunrise and Oakland Park exits produce side-swipes and multi-car rear-end chains. Federal Highway through Coral Ridge and Imperial Point is a long line of shopping-center driveways where left turns across three lanes meet through traffic. Downtown, Las Olas Boulevard and the Andrews Avenue and 3rd Avenue bridges are slow, distracted and full of low-speed bumper crashes that still cause whiplash.

For the north half of the city, the emergency rooms are Broward Health Imperial Point and Holy Cross Health, both on Federal Highway. Go to either first for any head injury, loss of consciousness, chest pain, fracture or numbness in the arms or legs. We screen for head injury and concussion and refer them out; we do not treat them. For the attorney reader, this is home ground: the Broward County Courthouse is downtown, and most of the personal injury firms that refer to us are within a mile of it. The first-visit exam here includes orthopedic and neurological testing and range-of-motion measurements, documented the same day, and the file goes out as one PDF when your office requests it.

Florida is a no-fault state. PIP pays 80% of reasonable medical expenses up to $10,000 if initial treatment begins within 14 days of the crash. Without an emergency medical condition (EMC) determination, the benefit is limited to $2,500. An EMC can only be determined by an MD, DO, PA or APRN, not by a chiropractor; this office refers patients out for that determination. A downtown worker rear-ended on I-95 who spends two weeks hoping the neck pain fades has spent the entire window. Chiropractic care is covered under section 627.736. This is general information, not legal advice. Dr. Carol McNamara-Krauss is a Florida-licensed chiropractic physician (DC), license CH5281.

From Coral Ridge, Imperial Point or the Galt Ocean Mile: take Federal Highway north. You will pass Commercial Boulevard, cross into Pompano Beach at Atlantic Boulevard, continue past Copans Road, and the 3320 building is on the right before Sample Road in Lighthouse Point. About fifteen minutes.

From downtown, Victoria Park, Flagler Village or Rio Vista: take I-95 north to the Copans Road exit, go east on Copans across Dixie Highway to Federal Highway, and turn north. The building is a short distance up on the right.

From Harbor Beach or Las Olas Isles: Federal Highway north is the direct route; A1A north to Atlantic Boulevard and then west to Federal is the alternative when the Sunrise bridge is up. Suite 107 is on the ground floor.