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Union Park Car Accident Claims

If your crash involved Union Park, the practical steps usually run through Orange County and Florida agencies rather than a separate city system. Union Park is a census-designated place in Orange County with a population of 10,452, so the responding agency, the court, and even which page is most useful often depend on where the crash happened, not just where you live.

25,415

Orange County crashes, 2024

19,493

People reported injured

162

People killed, 2024

50%

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Local data

Orange County crash snapshot

Reported by Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles for 2024. Union Park sits in Orange County, and most local crash data is published at the county level rather than by city.

25,415

Reported crashes in 2024

19,493

People reported injured

70

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). Reviewed 2026-07-29.

Who responded

Agencies that respond to crashes in Union Park

Which agency attended determines who to contact about an incomplete or incorrect report.
  • Orange County Sheriff's OfficeCounty sheriff
  • Florida Highway PatrolState patrol
Your crash report

How to get your Union Park crash report

Venue

Courts that hear Orange County civil cases

Circuit Court for Orange County

General civil claims

Orange County Court

Smaller civil claims

Local factors

County systems matter more than the Union Park label

Union Park is a census-designated place, not a separate city court or police system, so most claim logistics point to county or state bodies. In practice, that often means the Orange County Sheriff's Office for local law-enforcement response and the Circuit Court for Orange County or Orange County Court if a lawsuit is filed. Florida Highway Patrol may also be the investigating agency, especially when the crash happened on a state road or larger corridor.

For many Union Park residents, the harder question is not where you live but where the crash happened. If you were injured while commuting across Orange County, the claim is usually tied to the crash location and the investigating agency for that roadway, not your Union Park address. That matters in a county with 25,415 total crashes and 19,493 injury crashes in 2024, according to Florida Health CHARTS using Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles records, and with major travel corridors such as Colonial Drive (SR 50) and I-4 through Orlando appearing in the county crash profile.

The same county-wide approach applies to records and next steps. Florida crash reports are confidential for 60 days after filing except for the people and entities allowed by statute, and the report request process runs through FLHSMV. If your crash was in another part of Orange County rather than inside Union Park itself, the county agencies and court structure still matter more than the neighborhood name; the state-law sections below cover the broader Florida deadlines and fault rules.

Florida law

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%.

Deadlines

Florida filing deadlines

Missing a deadline generally ends a claim regardless of how strong it is. Government claims are on a much shorter clock than ordinary claims.

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.

Local questions

Union Park questions

Often it is the Orange County Sheriff's Office for local response, but Florida Highway Patrol may handle the crash if it happened on a state road or another highway setting. The investigating agency depends on the road and crash location, not just the fact that you live in Union Park.
Transparency

Sources and review dates

Every figure on this page traces to one of the sources below. Geography and population come from the U.S. Census Bureau.

About this page

State law on this page was last reviewed 2026-07-29 and has not been reviewed by a licensed attorney. It is general information, not legal advice for your situation.

Local commentary on this page was prepared 2026-07-31 and checked automatically against the sources cited on this page. It has not been individually reviewed by a person.

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