Posts tagged Motorcycle Accidents

• Are Elderly Drivers Dangerous?

  Ed Normand | September 27, 2008 11:08 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Many assume that older drivers are unsafe behind the wheel, cause more auto accidents and should be tested more frequently. Actually the truth is just the opposite. According to a study by the Rand...

• Lobbying for a Lower Drinking Age

  Ed Normand | September 26, 2008 11:08 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The lowest legal age to drink alcohol in all 50 states is 21. This was not always the law. In fact in the early 80's most 18 year olds could drink in most states. Laws were passed to lower the...

• Driving While Distracted, The New DWI?

  Ed Normand | September 19, 2008 9:38 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  It appears that the recent tragic commuter train crash in Los Angeles may have been the result of inattention by the train operator to the operation of the train because he was too busy texting to...

• Dangerous Week-end on Florida Highways

  Sandy Grinnell, Staff Contributor | July 15, 2008 2:18 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  While US drivers may be cutting back on their driving due to high gas prices, it hasn't made it any safer to travel Florida's highways. This past week was deadly for driver's from Jacksonville to...

• One Million Enrolled in Emergency Contact Information System

  Eddie Farah | May 13, 2008 1:08 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  When 22-year-old Tiffiany Olson was involved in a motorcycle crash in 2005, it took six hours for her mother, Christine, to find out where she was. That was time she could have spent with her dying...

• Tampa Man Killed in Motorcycle Accident

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

  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...

• Man Dies in ATV Accident

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

  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...

• Proposed Law Could Cause Motorcyclists their Bikes

  Diego Madrigal | January 14, 2008 2:21 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  A new proposal could result in bikers losing their motorcycles. A bill sponsored by Representative Carlos Lopez-Cantera of Miami calls for motorcyclists to be arrested and have their bikes confiscated if they are charged with reckless driving or exceeding the speed limit by 50 miles per hour. That is only for motorcyclists CHARGED with those crimes- if later convicted, bikers stand to lose...

• Man Injured in St. Petersburg Motorcycle Accident

  Shannon Weidemann | December 30, 2007 8:00 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  A motorcycle accident in St. Petersburg on Thursday injured a 41-year-old man. The bike flipped over while he was driving it from a parking lot into the connecting street. The accident happened on 46th Avenue North around 5:15 p.m. The victim of St. Petersburg was thrown from the 2002 Harley-Davidson Softail, the Highway Patrol said. He was taken to Bayfront Medical Center with serious...

• Brandon Motorcyclist Killed by Drunk Driver

  Joe Saunders | November 28, 2007 8:34 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  The holiday season is once again upon us as is the rise in drunk driving accidents and fatalities around the Bay area. This morning we're unfortunately hearing about a yound motorcyclist from Brandon who lost his life as a result of an auto accident with a drunk driver. Motorcyclists are more vulnerable to serious injury in a car accident especially when that accident involves an impaired...