Doral car accident claim factors
If you were hurt in Doral, the city is only part of the picture. A crash here may involve the Doral Police Department, the Miami-dade County Police Department - Sheriff and Port Services Bureau, or the Florida Highway Patrol, and court filings usually go through Miami-Dade County courts.
60,000
Miami-Dade County crashes, 2024
29,354
People reported injured
282
People killed, 2024
50%
Fault bars recovery above
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Miami-Dade County crash snapshot
60,000
Reported crashes in 2024
29,354
People reported injured
164
Crashes per day, on average
Source: Florida Health CHARTS — Motor Vehicle Traffic Crashes, Ten Years Data by County (Florida Department of Health, from FLHSMV records). Miami-Dade is published as a rounded figure of 60,000 for 2024.. Reviewed 2026-07-29.
Agencies that respond to crashes in Doral
Doral Police Department
City police
Miami-dade County Police Department - Sheriff and Port Services Bureau
County sheriff
Florida Highway Patrol
State patrol
How to get your Doral crash report
- Where to request it
- https://www.flhsmv.gov/traffic-crash-reports/
Courts that hear Miami-Dade County civil cases
Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County
General civil claims
Miami-Dade County Court
Smaller civil claims
County systems matter more than city limits
Doral has its own municipal agency, the Doral Police Department, but many parts of a claim still run through county or state systems. Depending on where and how the crash happened, the responding agency may instead be the Miami-dade County Police Department - Sheriff and Port Services Bureau or the Florida Highway Patrol. If a lawsuit has to be filed, the courts listed for this area are the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County and the Miami-Dade County Court, not a separate Doral trial court.
Many Doral residents are injured while commuting elsewhere in Miami-Dade County, and the location of the crash usually matters more than your home address. That matters in a county with 60,000 total crashes and 29,354 injury crashes in 2024, according to Florida Health CHARTS using Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles records. If your wreck happened on the Palmetto Expressway (SR 826) or I-95 through Miami, the more useful page may be the page for the place where the crash happened rather than Doral itself.
The practical next step is usually to identify the reporting agency and get the correct crash report through the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles request portal. Florida crash reports are confidential for 60 days after filing, with release during that period limited to people listed in the statute, and the page's Florida law sections already cover the state deadlines and fault rules that apply after that.
How fault is allocated in Florida
Florida follows modified comparative negligence with a 50% bar. Below that line your recovery is reduced in proportion to your fault. Above it, you recover nothing at all, which makes the fault allocation the central dispute in most contested claims.
As an example, a $100,000 claim in which you are found 20% responsible would yield $80,000. The same claim with 51% responsibility attributed to you would yield nothing, because Florida bars recovery above 50%.
Florida filing deadlines
2 years
Personal injury
2 years
Wrongful death
3 years
Claim against a government agency
Reviewed 2026-07-29. Not yet reviewed by a licensed attorney. This is general information, not legal advice.
Claims we can estimate in Doral
Doral questions
Sources and review dates
- U.S. Census Bureau — Doral place GEOID 1217935, population 83,625 (2024 Population Estimates), land area 13.849 sq mi (2023 Gazetteer).
- Florida Health CHARTS — Motor Vehicle Traffic Crashes, Ten Years Data by County (Florida Department of Health, from FLHSMV records). Miami-Dade is published as a rounded figure of 60,000 for 2024. · reviewed 2026-07-29
- FLHSMV Crash Dashboard · reviewed 2026-07-29
- HIFLD Local Law Enforcement Locations, derived from the BJS Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies (2008), imagery-validated to 2018 · reviewed 2026-07-30
- Florida Constitution Article V, and the Florida State Courts System trial court structure · reviewed 2026-07-30
- Fla. Stat. § 95.11 — Limitations other than for the recovery of real property · reviewed 2026-07-29
- Fla. Stat. § 768.81 — Comparative fault · reviewed 2026-07-29
- Fla. Stat. § 627.736 — Required personal injury protection benefits · reviewed 2026-07-29
- Fla. Stat. § 768.28 — Waiver of sovereign immunity in tort actions · reviewed 2026-07-29
- Florida DHSMV — Insurance requirements · reviewed 2026-07-29
- North Broward Hospital District v. Kalitan, 219 So. 3d 49 (Fla. 2017) · reviewed 2026-07-29
- Fla. Stat. § 768.73 — Punitive damages; limitation · reviewed 2026-07-29
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