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The Beacon-News reports discrepancies between police and witness accounts of a fatal motorcycle crash on August 26 outside of Chicago. Three friends on motorcycles, including Nicholas Linton, headed into Chicago on Interstate 88; a subsequent motorcycle crash killed Linton. The Illinois State Police say that the accident is still under investigation, but the police report… read more
Three separate motorcycle accidents occurred in the San Luis Valley on August 27, and the Colorado State Patrol continues to investigate these events. According to the Valley Courier, Judy Rice and her husband Donald Rice were on Colorado 160 when the vehicles in front of them stopped for one of them to make a left… read more
An intoxicated driver hit Matthew Denice, a 23-year-old biker from Milford, Massachusetts, on Saturday, August 20, after failing to stop at a stop sign. According to Metro West Daily News, Milford Regional Medical Center pronounced Denice dead that night, after the intoxicated truck driver dragged the biker’s body under the wheel of his truck for… read more
A motorcycle accident that occurred in 1988 left Robert Arciola a quadriplegic. During his time in the Army, Arciola was a passenger on a motorcycle, on his way to get medication for his wife. A sharp curve caused the bike to come out from under the veteran, and Arciola hit the foundation of a house.… read more
The Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge is a cross-country motorcycle race that stipulates that participants cannot use any electric help, such as a cell phone or GPS device, and the bikers must sleep in a tent next to their bikes for the two-week journey. Hoka Hey awards $500,000 in prize money to the first biker who… read more
Lt. Terry Foster, a Chicago firefighter, is brain-dead due to injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash on Friday, August 19. According to The Herald-News, Foster left a Kid Rock concert around 10 p.m., headed west on Interstate 80. A large bump in the pavement from road construction threw the rider off his motorcycle, and fellow… read more
Maine’s state legislature passed a bill this spring to regulate the noise levels that motorcycles ridden in Maine can produce because many bikes have custom exhaust systems and pipes to make the bike sound louder. According to WCSH-6, bikers contested the motorcycle noise law on Saturday, August 13 by riding the streets of Limington, Maine.… read more
A motorcyclist from Georgetown, Delaware collided with a tractor-trailer on August 10 when the truck pulled into the biker’s path. According to WBOC-16, the biker, 73-year-old Harold Robinson, traveled northbound until the tractor-trailer in a southbound turn lane moved into Harold’s lane. The biker lost control of the motorcycle and hit mailboxes, and Robinson told… read more
North of Lusk, Wyoming, a motorcyclist from Pleasant Hill, Iowa died on August 11 due to a crash with a truck. According to the Lusk Herald, Motorcyclist Jefferson Adams headed northbound on U.S. Highway 85, along with Damon Hand of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Hand drove a truck pulling a 28-foot trailer, and he missed his… read more
After the Sturgis motorcycle rally in Sturgis, South Dakota ended, the South Dakota Highway Patrol reported four fatal accidents, with three that occurred in Sturgis and one that happened in Rapid City. According to Rapid City Journal, police were asking for help in locating the perpetrator of one of the fatal motorcycle accidents that occurred… read more
