The New Bedford District Court, in New Bedford, MA, has scheduled a dangerousness hearing for Patrick Coelho, 37 of Dartmouth. A dangerousness hearing is essentially a bail hearing where the judge determines the amount of bail for the defendant based on the potential safety of the victim and/or the community — the more dangerous the… read more
A Peoria couple is dead after a drunk driver slammed into their motorcycle then fled the scene early Sunday. Michael “Korey” Korenchuk and his wife Rachel were riding their Harley-Davidson around 1:30 a.m. Sunday, August 7 when they stopped behind another vehicle at a red light. An SUV slammed into them from behind and pushed… read more
It was a fatal motorcycle accident, like so many that occur on roadways across the country. This accident happened on August 4, 2011 in Horry County, South Carolina at the intersection of Highway 17 Bypass and Glenns Bay Road. Seventy-two year-old Jerry Smith was travelling south on Highway 17 Bypass when he turned left onto… read more
Wyoming is up to 73 fatalities for the year after six fatal accidents in the last week of July. And of those six accidents, four of them occurred between Friday, July 29 and Sunday, July 31. In comparison, the number of fatalities at the same time last year was 71, and the total for 2010… read more
Two people are now dead in another instance where a rider has decided that it’s better to lead police on a high-speed chase than pull over for a traffic stop. The events leading up to the crash started in Wellington, Utah around 11:00 p.m. on July 28, 2011 when Carbon County police tried to stop… read more
A Colusa woman is dead after the motorcycle on which she was a passenger collided with an SUV. Naome “Lynn” Sevigny and her husband, Dale, were travelling west on Highway 70 towards the intersection at Pentz Road. Dale was driving and Lynn was riding behind him. At the Pentz Road intersection, a Jeep Liberty driven… read more
It sounds like something from one of those prime time crime procedurals: A man dies in a motorcycle crash, the police show up on the scene and find the crashed bike, but nobody finds his body until a family member discovers it the following morning. But this isn’t the plot to a CSI episode, it… read more
A routine traffic stop turned into a police chase and ended in a bus crash when the rider slammed into the back of a tour bus. The incident occurred in Frankly County, PA around 7:00 p.m. on Monday, August 1, 2011 when a trooper on State Route 997 noticed a rider who wasn’t wearing eye… read more
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
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
