May 2010

According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, motorcycle fatalities could be reduced by as much as thirty three percent or more if the Federal Government required that motorcycles be equipped with anti-lock brakes. Adrian Lund, who is President of the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety said, “new research shows that anti-lock brake technology can make motorcycle riding a much…

A motorcycle accident can be devastating to the those that were involved in a motorcycle accident, and survived it, or to the family members that are living with the person that survived a motorcycle collision. This is especially true in cases where serious injuries were a result and the quality of life of both the accident survivor and his or…

Air travel has become much safer in the century since that first historic flight back in 1903. Despite all the advancements in safety and technology, airplane accidents do still happen. Luckily, they are not always catastrophic and fatal accidents. It is rare to hear of an airplane accident wherein all the passengers perish. More common are the accidents on the…

If you are a motorcycle rider then you probably know the inherent danger each time you take your bike out to the open roads, simply because motorcycle injuries are often more pronounced then injuries from automobile accidents, where airbags, electronic stability control and other safety features offer protection in the case of a collision. However, what are the most common…

The Hurt Report is a report that was conducted and issued by the University of Southern California and is officially titled Motorcycle Accident Cause Factors and Identification of Countermeasures. The report is several hundred pages long, and more than nine hundred motorcycle accidents were examined in this study, all in the Greater Los Angeles area, under the direction of Harry…