Motorcycle Accidents

• Motorcycle Deaths - Iowa has less than 5 per 10,000 registered bikes

  Steve Lombardi | May 14, 2008 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  After 26 years of practicing law in the personal injury area I feel comfortable saying that motorcycle wrecks and accidents that cause traumatic brain injury leave broken homes and ruined marriages...

• Not stopping for a stop sign can have deadly consequences.

  Steve Lombardi | April 30, 2008 8:05 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Not stopping for a stop sign can have deadly consequences.

• Solon Motorcycle Crash with Deer Kills Passenger

  Steve Lombardi | April 28, 2008 9:09 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  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.

• Motorcycle Helmets - Should they be mandatory?

  Steve Lombardi | April 27, 2008 9:00 AM | 2 CommentsDes Moines, IA

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

• Rural Newton, Jasper County Intersection Collision - Motorcycle Riders Dead

  Steve Lombardi | April 23, 2008 8:22 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  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...

• Motorcycle Helmets, Should they be mandatory?

  Steve Lombardi | April 07, 2008 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

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

• Schehr Pleads Found Guilty of Homicide by Intoxication

  Steve Lombardi | April 01, 2008 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  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....

• Safer Motorcycle Riding

  Steve Lombardi | March 06, 2008 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  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...

• Traffic fatalities steady but motorcycle deaths rose in Iowa during 2007.

  Steve Lombardi | March 05, 2008 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  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!

• Iowa Motorcycle Safety Forum for 2008

  Steve Lombardi | February 04, 2008 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  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.