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Surveillance video from a motorcycle store has been released that shows the last moments of a young female motorcyclist’s life, just before an alleged drunk driver hit her. The 22-year-old Plantation college student had just won a coveted spot on the Miami Heat dance squad when she was killed. The video shows her stopping with… read more
Police in El Cerrito, California are urging football fans to designate a driver during Super Bowl weekend. The Bay Area city is likely to be filled with football fans cheering their team on, contributing to increased incidents of drunken driving. “While I encourage everyone to have fun…I implore you to do so in a safe… read more
A combined lawsuit against Andrew Schlichtemeier, the drunk driver who killed four Omaha-area motorcyclists in August 2010, has essentially been settled. Schlichtemeier offered the families of the motorcyclists the proceeds from the car insurance policies he carried at the time of the crash, and they accepted. On August 9, 2010, the four riders were returning… read more
Arizona was given a failing safety grade recently by a national highway safety group, with the state adopting less than a third of the laws the group considers basic to traffic safety. The only state to rank lower than Arizona in the ninth annual report from the Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety was South… read more
An off-duty Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy was convicted and sentenced last week in a drunken driving motorcycle accident that injured his wife. Richard J. Patterson, 38, of West Covina, was riding while intoxicated last year on July 5 while northbound on Interstate 405 near Brookhurst Street in Fountain Valley. He had his wife… read more
The American Motorcyclists Association (AMA) recently released a response to the call of the National Traffic Safety Board (NTSB) for a nationwide ban on cell phone use while driving. The proposed ban, which would include hands-free devices, has drawn both positive and negative attention from groups across the nation. AMA spokesperson Peter Terhorst issued this… read more
As a motorcyclist, you may not know what tort reform is or how it applies to you. But if you are ever involved in an accident with a commercial vehicle or a company that was engaging in unsafe practices, or if your bike or equipment ever harms you because of shoddy manufacturing, tort reform could… read more
Riding motorcycles safely is not easy, even for those who are learning under expert guidance. One Colorado Springs police officer and two El Paso County sheriff’s deputies had a serious crash last week in a training course for police escorts, causing all three to be transported to the hospital. According to Police Lt. Brian Ritz,… read more
Nebraska’s efforts to increase road safety and improve driving habits seem to be paying off, with 2011 having the lowest number of road fatalities since 1944. Authorities are citing increased awareness about drunken driving, improved use of seat belts and safer vehicles as the causes of the near-record year. There were 179 road fatalities in… read more
A Maryland man died last month in a motorcycle accident, a death that has left his mother hoping it will serve as a lesson to others to ride more safely. Twenty-four-year old Kevin Hinnant loved speed, his mother said. It had landed him in traffic court twice before. He had also hit a pothole in… read more
