Car Accident Care in Our Own City: 30 Years of Practice on US-1

Car Accident Doctors Group is the accident-injury practice of Dr. Carol McNamara-Krauss, DC, and Lighthouse Point is our city. The office is at 3320 N Federal Hwy #107, on US-1 between Copans Road and Sample Road. If you live in Coral Key, Harbor Village or Venetian Isles, you drive past our building every time you head to the grocery store or the Yacht Club. Most of our neighbors can be in the exam room within five minutes of leaving their driveway.

People in Lighthouse Point come to us because the alternative is a long wait at an urgent care or a drive down to Fort Lauderdale for a specialist. We see crash patients the same day they call. Dr. McNamara-Krauss has 30 years in practice, Janelle Deal has 30 years handling Florida PIP claims, and Elizabeth Celestin, APRN, and Dawn Marie Teufel, LMT, round out the team. The phone, (754) 342-6479, is answered 24/7. Saturday appointments are available by request. Se habla español.

Lighthouse Point is a small city with one real traffic problem: Federal Highway. US-1 forms the western edge of the city, and the signals at Sample Road and Copans Road stack up rear-end collisions during the morning rush and the late-afternoon school run. Inside the city, the low-speed crashes happen on NE 24th Street near Frank McDonough Park, at the Yacht Club entrance and in the parking lots along Federal. Low speed does not mean no injury. A 10 mph rear-end impact is enough to cause whiplash, and the pain often shows up two or three days later.

If anyone in the car lost consciousness, has a head wound, chest pain, numbness in the legs or trouble breathing, go to the emergency room first. The closest is Broward Health North on Sample Road, west of I-95 in Deerfield Beach, about ten minutes from the Hillsboro Inlet side of town. Head injuries and concussion are screened here and referred out; we do not treat them. For the attorney reader, Lighthouse Point cases are filed in Broward County, and the Broward County Courthouse is in downtown Fort Lauderdale. Records from this office go out as one PDF from a proprietary case documentation system built in consultation with personal injury attorneys.

Florida's PIP law gives you 14 days from the crash to get your first treatment or you lose the benefit. For a Lighthouse Point resident that deadline is easy to meet: you can walk in the door within the hour. PIP pays 80% of reasonable medical expenses up to $10,000, but 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, and this office does not make EMC determinations; we refer patients out for them. Read the details on our 14-day rule page. This is general information, not legal advice. Dr. Carol McNamara-Krauss is a Florida-licensed chiropractic physician (DC), license CH5281.

From Venetian Isles or Coral Key, take NE 24th Street west to Federal Highway. Turn north. The 3320 building is on the right before you reach Sample Road. Suite 107 is on the ground floor.

From Lighthouse Point Estates or Lake Placid on the north end, go south on Federal Highway from Sample Road. The building is on your left about half a mile down, before Copans Road. From the Hillsboro Shores side of the inlet, cross the A1A bridge, take NE 14th Street Causeway or Atlantic Boulevard west to Federal, then head north past Copans.