Motorcycle Accidents

• Motorcyclist Killed in Santa Clarita Crash

  Susy Owen | January 20, 2009 9:02 AM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  The motorcycle crash occurred at the intersection of Wiley Canyon and Tournament Rd in Valencia, CA. 23-year old Peter Neptune was on his motorcycle when it collided with a car driven by Dejah...

• Man Dies on Motorcycle after He Fails to Stop

  Susy Owen | July 14, 2008 4:08 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  According to local police, a thirty-something man died on Saturday when his motorcycle collided with a car. The decedent, David Anthony Hall of Britain, did not stop at a posted stop sign. As a...

• MotorCycle Crash Under Investigation

  Susy Owen | June 19, 2008 9:01 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  David Frazelle, 29, of Hawthorne, California was riding his motorcycle at approximately 6 p.m. on a Monday evening when he stuck a truck. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The truck driver was...

• Colorado's Motorcycle Fatalities Double

  Susy Owen | April 18, 2008 3:21 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  The number of motorcycle fatalities have doubled in Colorado. And there doesn’t seem to be any end in sight. So far, in 2008 as many as 10 riders have died. The majority of those riders were not...

• Cousins Die on Motorcross Bikes

  Susy Owen | December 19, 2007 6:38 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  Cousins Richard Aaron Dale, 19, and Cameron Ian McClintock, 15, were killed on March 17 when their motocross bikes collided in mid-air while they were riding at the family farm. A recent inquest is hoped to bring some measure of closure to a terrible family tragedy. Richard and Cameron were cousins, which makes the tragedy all the worse. Both Richard and Cameron were riding at a family farm....

• Three Teens Die in Alabama Car Accident

  Susy Owen | December 12, 2007 12:45 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  Last Saturday, three Alabama teens were killed when the vehicle they were traveling in hit a tree and went off an embankment. Four other teens were injured in the same car accident. All of the teens attended Hayden High School and were on their way home from a cheerleading clinic at the time of the crash. The driver, Sarah Elizabeth Agee, 17, in addition to Brittany Lovejoy, 17, Ariel Nibblet,...

• Sixty-Year-Old Dies in Motorcycle Crash

  Susy Owen | October 07, 2007 1:07 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  It isn't very often you see a 60-year-old woman riding a motorcycle. Sally Jean Mata was an exception. Sadly, on Sunday while she was riding her motorcycle she collided with a three-axle tanker truck. When the collision occured, Mata was traveling southbound, while the truck was making a U-Turn. The truck driver was not hurt. It was only last year that Mata survived an accident that took the...

• Motorcycle Safety Campaign

  Susy Owen | April 18, 2007 12:19 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  With the assistance of Plymouth Rock Assurance Corporation, the Massachusetts Motorcycle Association (MMA) has started an aggressive motorcycle safety awareness campaign. The campaign began in January when Plymouth Rock offered to underwrite the cost of the program. Members of Massachusetts Motorcycle Association sent letters to every municipalities in Massachusetts, 351 in all. They were...

• Motorcycle Riders - Is this Bill the Answer?

  Susy Owen | February 14, 2007 2:24 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  Have you seen Senate Bill 49 (nicknamed Kyle's Law). It is a bill that aims at cutting down on accidents involving motorcycle-riding children under the age of twelve. Given the number of accidents that occur yearly, it is clear that changes are needed to cut down not only on injuries but also on deaths as a result of unsafe riding. Do you think taking the privilege of riding away from children...

• Automobile Accidents and Related Medical Costs

  Susy Owen | February 09, 2007 11:58 AM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  Yesterday, lawmakers moved to kill pending state regulations that would cut how much doctors can charge automobile insurers for treating accident victims. The proposed bill would regulate costs on more than 1,000 medical procedures that are automoblie related. "We would argue the reimbursement rates are inflated but recognize that the fee schedule currently pending before the department is a...