Des Moines Personal Injury Lawyer articles in category: Motorcycle Accidents

Not stopping for a stop sign can have deadly consequences.

Deer can't go to driver's education classes so how do we deal with the growing number of deer-motorcycle crashes? Helmet or no helmet? Make a wise choice.

Freedom of choice or societies right to protect it's financial interests? Where do you weigh in on this debate?

At a rural intersection on Highway F17 just west of Baxter, Iowa a Newton man and woman were killed when a van driver failed to stop at a stop sign and to yield. Details are sketchy and the Jasper...

What is more important societies right to protect or a person's right to choose. So goes the motorcycle helmet debate.

Facing a 25 year prison term and a $100,000 fine Darcy L. Schehr was reported to have plead no contest to charges of homicide by intoxication in the accident that took the life of Daniel Christ....

Motorcycle safety is a concern to all who ride. Here is the information for Iowa to learn how to ride safer. Iowa has a program titled MRE or Motorcycle Rider Education. What is the Motorcycle Rider Education (MRE) Program? Iowa has a Motorcycle Rider Education (MRE) Program administered by the Office of Driver Services of the Department of Transportation. Iowa's MRE program teaches Basic...

In 2007, 423 people died in all traffic accidents according to the Iowa DOT. As compared with 439 in 2006 and 450 in 2005. More statistics are coming in having to do with seatbelt usage, alcohol relatedness, motorcycle and deer wrecks and collisions, etc. We'll report on more later. Happy New Year!

The 5th Annual Iowa Motorcycle Safety Forum is scheduled for March 14, 2008 at the Sheraton West Des Moines Hotel, 1800 50th Street, West Des Moines. You can download the agenda by following the link.

My advice to those riders, who don't wish to wear a helmet, is to be very good to your spouse, because one day soon you're going to need them for a very long time. I rest my case.This post is about marriage advice. On January 22, 2008 the blog I posted was: Motorcycles, Helmets, Wrecks, Brain Damage and the Freedom to be Stupid. That entry discussed one potential solution to the enormous costs...

Requiring motorcycle owners to buy medical and disability insurance that will pay for their freedom - currently at the general public's expense - is an excellent idea. And, if they get caught riding without a helmet and the necessary insurance coverage, then take away their right to ride and hit them with a very high fine. Make it painful. Very painful.We need to remember that there is no free...

If you ride a bike and are not ready to strap on a helmet you better get ready to, if the NTSB has it's way. On Tuesday, the National Transportation Safety Board voted unanimously to recommend that every state create and enforce mandatory helmet laws for motorcycle riders and passengers."Since 1997 to 2007 the fatality rate has doubled and the simple act of donning that helmet will begin that...

What possible reason can the Iowa State Patrol offer for why the report of the Obama campaign vehicle with Mrs. Obama in the vehicle that crashed with the motorcyclist isn't yet filed? Why is it people are blaming the motorcyclist even before there is an official report as to why the driver of the campaign vehicle didn't see the motorcyclist? And why is it taking this long to produce even a...

The Sheriff of Boone County reported on a motorcycle-dirt bike crash on D Avenue occurring on Saturday, September 8, 2007. 3:31 p.m.: A motorcycle/dirtbike accident occurred near Perry. Robert Johnson, 54, Perry, was southbound on D Avenue and attempted to pass a dirt bike operated by Cole Mayhush, 11, Perry, who at the same time was making an unsignaled lefthand turn. Mayhush was struck by the...

In 2006 57 Iowans were killed while riding on a motorcycle. Any tip about how to avoid collisions has to be a good thing. They say 2/3rds of the crashes nationwide are from operator error. I'm not sure how they define operator error. So here is the tip, leave your head light on at all times when riding and have installed a motorcycle headlight modulator that will change the lamps intensity while...