Motorcycle Accidents

• Tampa Motorcycle Accident Kills Two

  Shannon Weidemann | July 31, 2007 1:30 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Two people out for an evening ride on a motorcycle in Tampa got into a fatal accident with a minivan on Monday. The motorcycle accident happened on Morris Bridge Road. The motorcycle drove into the minivan. The Harley Davidson collided with the van, killing two on the bike, and leaving the mother driving the minivan in critical condition.There were three other people in the minivan, a man...

• Bike Week 2009 wrapping up.

  Jeffrey Meldon | March 08, 2009 10:54 AM | 14 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL

  Daytona Beach Bike Week 2009 is wrapping up the festivities today and regrettably there have been 7 reported deaths this past 10 days. Fortunately this number is down considerably from 2006 when...

• How much stress can a Suzuki GSX-R1000 motorcycle frame take? (Part II)

  Armand Rossetti | February 17, 2009 5:14 PM | 3 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  According to Total Motorcycle Website, the entire 2006 Suzuki GSX-R1000 (gixer) motorcycle weighs only 365 lbs.; that's only twice the weight of the average gixer rider. When Suzuki introduced the...

• Tampa Man Killed in Motorcycle Accident

  Shannon Weidemann | March 29, 2008 9:33 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  A motorcycle accident killed a man in Tampa early Saturday morning. The 44-year-old victim was a resident of Tampa. The victim was traveling west on Hillsborough Ave. on his 2005 Yamaha at approximately 1:35 a.m. when he came up on the Veteran's Expressway intersection. Dean was about to turn left when a 1995 Ford Escort station wagon ran a red light and hit the motorcycle.He was not wearing a...

• Pinellas Park Motorcyclist Killed in Crash on I-75

  Joe Saunders | June 03, 2009 8:59 AM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL

  A 24 year old Pinellas Park motorcyclist was killed early this morning when his motorcycle veered into the path of a tractor trailer. The crash caused the motorcycle to split in two and catch on...

• Officers Escorting Harley Dealer Funeral Collide

  Eddie Farah | August 08, 2009 9:43 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  The irony is pretty amazing. Six officers on motorcycles, escorting a funeral for the late motorcycle dealer, Bruce Rossmeyer in Ormond Beach, Florida, Tuesday, were involved in a crash. The...

• Man Dies in ATV Accident

  Diego Madrigal | March 01, 2008 5:14 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  On the heels of our recent post regarding increasing ATV accidents, tragedy has struck a local family. A man riding his ATV in Ocoee, apparently had an accident and died at the hospital from traumatic head injuries sustained during his wreck. Police were originally called to the area because of complaints of two ATVs being driven near Laurel Blossom Circle. Upon ariving, police found an...

• Teen Motocross Death In North Florida

  Eddie Farah | September 20, 2008 10:30 PM | 6 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Students at Bartram Trail High School are mourning a senior who was killed this week in a motocross track accident in Flagler County, Florida. Bennet “Ben” Gordon Geiger Jr. was just 17 years old....

• UNF Student Hit And Killed By Two Hit-And-Run Drivers

  Eddie Farah | September 03, 2009 11:27 PM | 5 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  He was a 23-year-old graduate student at the University of North Florida. Yasser Hamdy, from Egypt, was killed in a double hit-and-run early Thursday morning. Hamdy and two friends were riding...

• Two Die in Inverness Motorcycle Accident

  Shannon Weidemann | July 08, 2008 7:57 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Two people died from their injuries after being involved in a motorcycle accident in Inverness on Sunday night. A 19-year-old Marine on leave from Iraq was taking his 16-year-old friend for a...