Personal Injury Q and A

Robert John Ross, 60, was killed in a California motorcycle accident after he lost control on a curve on Highway 58 in San Luis Obispo County, California and crashed. According to a news report in the Ventura County Star, Ross was critically injured in an August 9, 2009 collision that involved three motorcycles and a [...]

A 20-year-old man suffered critical injuries in a San Bernardino motorcycle accident the morning of July 6, 2009 after he crashed into a car that turned in front of him. According to a news report in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, the motorcyclist, whose identity has not yet been released, was traveling north on San [...]

Lance Michael Hagerty, 37, was killed in an El Cajon motorcycle accident the evening of June 24, 2009, 10 news reports. Hagerty was reportedly traveling westbound in the 200 block of West Bradley Avenue when the motorcycle he was riding rear-ended a slower moving vehicle, according to the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office. Hagerty [...]

Tony Beltran, 33, died in a Los Angeles County motorcycle accident the night of June 11, 2009 after colliding with a big rig truck, the San Gabriel Valley Tribune reports. Beltran apparently hit the passenger side of a tractor trailer while riding on Valley Boulevard in the City of Industry. Beltran was riding his motorcycle [...]

Michael Askin, 55, died in an Anaheim motorcycle accident after he lost control of his motorcycle and crashed the evening of May 22, 2009. According to an article in The Orange County Register, Askin was riding a motorcycle near Nohl Ranch Road and South Scout Trail when he lost control and careened into a concrete [...]

A 71-year-old man was killed in a May 18, 2009 Tulare County motorcycle accident after he was rear-ended by a pickup truck driver who did not see him, the Visalia Times Delta reports. The victim, who has not yet been identified, was stopped in the westbound lane of Avenue 95 near Road 248 when he [...]

KTM North America Inc. is recalling its defective motorcycles made for off-road use because of a front fork failure, according to a consumer safety alert issued by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. The front fork inner tube on the off-road motorcycles can crack and separate from the front fork axle posing a risk of [...]

Jose A. Rodriguez, 21, of East Wenatchee, suffered critical personal injuries in a Seattle ATV accident on April 27, 2009, the Wenatchee World reports. Rodriguez was knocked unconscious after falling off a four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle in East Wenatchee. He was apparently driving in the 400 block of North Perry Avenue on his way to change [...]

Gregory Lee Helton, a 39-year-old U.S. Marine Major, was killed in a San Bernardino motorcycle accident on Highway 62 the night of April 28, 2009, the Riverside Press Enterprise reports. Helton of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was based at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms. Helton was traveling west on the Highway 62 [...]