St. Augustine Shores injury claim factors
If your crash or injury is tied to St. Augustine Shores, the practical details usually run through St. Johns County rather than the CDP itself. For most people here, that means the Saint Johns County Sheriff's Office, the Circuit Court for St. Johns County or St. Johns County Court, and Florida's statewide crash-report system.
41
People killed, 2023
50%
Fault bars recovery above
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Agencies that respond to crashes in St. Augustine Shores
- Saint Johns County Sheriff's OfficeCounty sheriff
- Florida Highway PatrolState patrol
How to get your St. Augustine Shores crash report
- Where to request it
- https://www.flhsmv.gov/traffic-crash-reports/
Courts that hear St. Johns County civil cases
Circuit Court for St. Johns County
General civil claims
St. Johns County Court
Smaller civil claims
What matters in a St. Augustine Shores claim
St. Augustine Shores is a CDP, not a full city government with its own court system or municipal police department in this dataset, so most claim logistics point to county and state bodies instead. The responding law-enforcement agency may be the Saint Johns County Sheriff's Office, and some crashes are handled by the Florida Highway Patrol. If a lawsuit has to be filed locally, the courts listed here are the Circuit Court for St. Johns County and St. Johns County Court.
For many residents, the harder question is not where you live but where the crash happened. If you live in St. Augustine Shores and were injured somewhere else in St. Johns County or on a route handled by the Florida Highway Patrol, the report, investigation, and court location usually follow the place of the crash, not your home address. Florida also limits access to crash reports for 60 days after filing to people and entities named by statute, and the report request process runs through the Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles crash-report portal.
County scale matters here. In St. Johns County, NHTSA's 2023 Fatality Analysis Reporting System recorded 38 fatal crashes and 41 fatalities, including 8 pedestrian fatalities and 2 bicyclist fatalities. Those county figures do not tell you what happened in St. Augustine Shores specifically, but they are a reminder that serious claims in this area are usually handled through county institutions, and that a participating attorney licensed in Florida will usually start by matching your case to the correct agency, court, and crash location.
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.
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Sources and review dates
- U.S. Census Bureau — St. Augustine Shores place GEOID 1262550, population 8,706 (2024 Population Estimates), land area 4.384 sq mi (2023 Gazetteer).
- NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) 2023 national file · reviewed 2026-07-30
- 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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