Posts tagged motorcycle accidents

• A Trauma Surgeon's View Of Motorcycles

  Bob Carroll | July 02, 2006 7:13 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  Pay a visit to this article posted at Where's The Outrage before you jump on your motorcycle. In the full article the trauma surgeon author includes some specific medical case stories and a helpful list of steps to take to reduce the risk of serious injury or death.Don't Underestimate the dangers of MotorcyclesOver the last couple of weeks there's been a lot of discussion about motorcycles and...

• Special Message To Unhelmeted Motorcyclists

  Bob Carroll | June 19, 2006 4:49 PM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  You are mounting your chrome-plated Harley-Davidson. Soon the wind will be sweeping through your hair. Boy, are you foolhardy! MSNBC carries this story: Fla. cycle deaths rose since helmet law repealed'Unhelmeted' fatalities in soared from 22 to 250, newspaper reportsMotorcycle fatalities involving riders without helmets have soared in the nearly six years since Gov. Jeb Bush repealed the...

• Terry Bradshaw Was Right About Riding The Motorcycle, Ben

  Bob Carroll | June 12, 2006 5:21 PM | 2 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  If you are Ben Roethlisberger, who quarterbacked the Steelers to a Super Bowl win, you might like to ride a motorcycle. You might even like to ride it without a helmet. But, the man who quarterbacked the Steelers to four Super Bowl wins, Terry Bradshaw, said Ben should wait until he retires. After a motorcycle crash this week that took Ben to surgery, Terry is looking pretty smart. Why does...

• "Managerial Decision" Kills Employee

  Bob Carroll | December 31, 2005 7:18 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  Sometimes judges get tangled up in abstractions when the simple facts and proper path is clear. If I handed a gun to a 6 year old and said "Go out and play," isn't that a clear violation of a state law as well as very negligent? Or, is that just a parental decision? A Florida appellate court has ruled it is just a business owner's managerial decision to order an employee to drive a motorcycle...

• Repeal Of The Motorcycle Helmet Law - Now The Head Hits The Road

  Bob Carroll | October 05, 2005 11:17 PM | 3 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  A report by the National Highway Traffic Administration entitled Evaluation of the Repeal of the All-Rider Motorcycle Helmet Law in Florida shows what happens when unprotected heads hit the road. The report "reviews the crash reports after the repeal of the mandatory motorcycle helmet law [and] it indicates that motorcycle fatalities have increased 81% when comparing 2001-2003 fatalities...

• $15 Million Verdict In Motorcycle Death

  Bob Carroll | September 24, 2005 4:30 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  Tampa Bay Online has reported on a significant wrongful death verdict in Tampa. I congratulate counsel from Pinellas County who obviously presented a compelling case for the anguish of the family over this tragic loss."TAMPA - The parents of a motorcyclist who died in an accident with a tractor-trailer won a $15 million verdict in a trial that ended Wednesday.About 4 p.m. on Oct. 31, Jeremy T....