A 25-year-old Long Island man lost his arm on Tuesday, July 12, when he reached around to adjust his backpack and lost control of his bike. Apparently Jamie Smith-Sessa of Great Neck was riding north on the Interstate 95 when his backpack came open half way. When he tried to close it, he lost control… read more
What do you get when you mix alcohol, an SUV and mid-day traffic? A rollover crash plus two additional accidents and three injuries. At least, that’s what happened around noon on July 25, 2011. Twenty-three-year-old Brandi Moon was driving her SUV erratically along Interstate 25. She was driving so erratically that the Colorado State Patrol… read more
The National Transportation Safety Board would like to see mandatory helmet laws in all states. Right now, how they handle the issue is still up to each individual state. Currently, every state but Illinois, Iowa and New Hampshire has some form of helmet law although some of the laws only target certain riders and others… read more
The Constatinides family, of Colorado Springs, had no idea what was in store for them when packed up their camp site to move upstream in the early hours of Tuesday, July 19, 2011. Laurel and Alex Constantinides, of Colorado Springs, and their three daughters – Hannah Xian, 8, Zoe Hong Chun, 5, and Lucia Yoon… read more
Jerry Perez, 23, of Lee County, FL was riding home from the mall when he lost control of his bike and collided with a UPS truck. The accident occurred on July 27, 2011 and Perez was driving a motorcycle that he had built himself just two weeks before. Authorities also believe that he was speeding,… read more
One doesn’t often consider golf carts when thinking of automotive fatalities. After all, they don’t seem to go that fast, and they aren’t that heavy. There have even been images posted on the web where a cart has rolled over on someone and, at worst, they escaped with a few bruises. Golf carts are generally… read more
Twenty-three-year-old Karl W. “Moose” Hujus of Pagosa Springs is still listed in critical condition after colliding with another vehicle on July 17, 2011. According to the latest newspaper article, Hujus was travelling eastbound on Highway 160 when the driver of a Subaru Imprezza, Jack Winchester, 87,turned left in front him. Hujus hit the passenger side… read more
When Michael Martel, 42, the off-duty Michigan police officer, went off the road in Clay Township, about 35 miles northeast of Detroit, it was not the only accident he’d had that day. About 20 minutes before the crash where Martel was critically injured, he fell off his motorcycle in Marine City. At about 12:10 a.m. two… read more
Thomas Hugh Sternberg, 30, of Casper, was taken into custody after leaving the scene of a head-on collision with only three wheels on his truck. “The front left wheel had been knocked off and the vehicle was riding on the axle and brake drum on the front left side,” according to the affidavit from the… read more
The rider, identified as a 52-year-old man from Colorado, was treated for his injuries at the scene but refused transport to a local hospital. The accident occurred around 11:00 a.m. on Monday, July 18, 2011 on Carl Broggi Highway in Lebanon, Maine. The GMC Pickup was travelling westbound and slowed to make a left turn… read more
