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Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida, January Term, A.D. 2007 Opinion filed April 25, 2007. Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing. ________________ No. 3D05-2244 Lower Tribunal No. 04-487 ________________ South Motor Company of Dade County, a Florida corporation, d/b/a South Motors Honda, Appellant, vs. Edith Doktorczyk, Personal Representative of the Estate of Menachem Doktorczyk, Appellee. On a Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Kevin Emas, Ivan Fernandez, and Henry Leyte-Vidal, Judges. Goldsmith Atlas, P.A. and Glen R. Goldsmith; Greenberg Traurig, P.A., and Elliot H. Scherker, and Elliot B. Kula, for petitioner. George, Hartz, Lundeen Fulmer, Johnstone, King Stevens, and Esther E. Galicia (Ft. Lauderdale), for respondent. ON MOTION FOR REHEARING Before, GERSTEN, GREEN, and RAMIREZ, JJ. RAMIREZ, J. Upon consideration of petitioner South Motor Company of Dade County’s motion for rehearing, we grant the motion for rehearing. Accordingly, we withdraw this Court’s September 1, 2006 opinion, and substitute the following in its stead. South Motor petitioned for a writ of certiorari seeking to quash a decision of the Circuit Court Appellate Division in which the circuit court reversed a summary judgment entered by the county court based on the expiration of the statute of limitations. Certiorari review is appropriate here where the circuit court appellate division has applied the incorrect law. Allstate Ins. Co. v. Kaklamanos, 843 So. 2d 885, 889 (Fla. 2003); Miami-Dade County v. Omnipoint Holdings, Inc., 863 So. 2d 195, 199 (Fla. 2003); Auerbach v. City of Miami, 929 So. 2d 693, 694-95 (Fla. 3d DCA 2006); Morningside Civic Ass’n, Inc. v. City of Miami Comm’n, 917 So. 2d 293, 295 (Fla. 3d DCA 2005). In its discussion of the second-level certiorari standard, the Florida Supreme Court has recognized that second-level review is not intended to serve as a second appeal, and that th