What was supposed to be a surprise visit for a returning veteran in southeast Texas last week turned into a four-vehicle accident leaving two motorcyclists critically injured. The two motorcyclists were part of an East Texas Christian motorcycle club that was traveling to present U.S. Army Master Sergeant Andrew Primeaux with a flag. Primeaux had… read more
When you are in a motorcycle accident, your chance of sustaining serious injuries is significantly higher than that of motorists encased by their vehicles. If the pain and trauma you experienced is due to the negligence of another, you deserve compensation. Getting help from experienced motorcycle accident attorneys is the best way to ensure adequate… read more
No one could have predicted that Luke Dithrich would be back at work for the U.S. Border Patrol after his 2008 motorcycle accident. At the time of the accident, in fact, his friends and family were not sure he would even survive. Thanks to his medical care, family and a surprising amount of effort on… read more
Several months back we wrote about a young Nebraskan couple killed by a drunk driver. A jury recently sentenced the man who hit the couple to serve much of the rest of his life, if not all of it, in prison. Robert Mahler, 55, had a blood alcohol content over two times the legal limit… read more
When you are in a motorcycle accident as the result of someone else’s carelessness, hiring an experienced motorcycle accident attorney will give you the best chance of seeing that justice is served. Such attorneys will have investigators who can look at your accident and reconstruct exactly what happened, helping to prove that your injury was… read more
A motorcycle rider has been sentenced to one to three years in prison after a motorcycle accident that led to the death of his girlfriend while both were under the influence of alcohol. Douglas Bruce, 44, told the court that he and his girlfriend, Pauline VanThiel, 51, were just going for a little ride before… 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
