Motorcycle Accidents | InjuryBoard Tampa Bay

Two people died from their injuries after being involved in a motorcycle accident in Inverness on Sunday night. A 19-year-old Marine on leave from Iraq was taking his 16-year-old friend for a...

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A 54-year-old man driving his motorcycle in Tampa was killed when he was hit by a car. The motorcycle accident happened last night. The victim of North Edison Street was westbound on West...

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A motorcycle accident killed a man in Tampa early Saturday morning. The 44-year-old victim was a resident of Tampa. The victim was traveling west on Hillsborough Ave. on his 2005 Yamaha at approximately 1:35 a.m. when he came up on the Veteran's Expressway intersection. Dean was about to turn left when a 1995 Ford Escort station wagon ran a red light and hit the motorcycle.He was not wearing a...

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A motorcycle accident in St. Petersburg on Thursday injured a 41-year-old man. The bike flipped over while he was driving it from a parking lot into the connecting street. The accident happened on 46th Avenue North around 5:15 p.m. The victim of St. Petersburg was thrown from the 2002 Harley-Davidson Softail, the Highway Patrol said. He was taken to Bayfront Medical Center with serious...

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The holiday season is once again upon us as is the rise in drunk driving accidents and fatalities around the Bay area. This morning we're unfortunately hearing about a yound motorcyclist from Brandon who lost his life as a result of an auto accident with a drunk driver. Motorcyclists are more vulnerable to serious injury in a car accident especially when that accident involves an impaired...

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A 17-year-old Senior at Ridgewood High School died in a motorcycle accident on Thursday night. He was driving the motorcycle and a 16-year-old girl was a passenger on the bike at the time of the accident. The motorcycle accident took place in Port Richey. The motorcycle was driving on U.S. 19 going north. The driver of the car was westbound on Commons Boulevard in a 1993 Honda when she...

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Joseph K. Wright, a young man with extended family from Tampa, passed away last week during a motorcycle accident on the way to Key West. He was 36 years old.Joe Wright and his father Ed had left work last Friday to ride down to the Keys, and Joe had placed a sweatshirt on the seat of his cycle to cushion the ride. Somewhere along the trip, the sweatshirt became tangled up in the rear spokes...

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A 29-year old motorcyclist speeding across the Howard Frankland Bridge in Tampa, Florida, lost control of his bike at nearly 100 mph and slammed into the concrete barrier along the side of the interstate, catapulting him into Tampa Bay.According to Florida Highway Patrol, Scottie Ewing was travelling in the outside lane of I-275 on the Howard Frankland Bridge before midnight when he lost control...

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A man was riding his motorcycle near the intersection of Leila Street and Westshore Boulevard when he hit a car and was killed. The motorcycle accident happened on Sunday in Tampa. Tampa police say the motorcyclist rear-ended a car, and was thrown off his bike. They say he landed after hitting a pole. The motorcycle driver was wearing a helmet at the time of the accident. Helmets are not...

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Two people out for an evening ride on a motorcycle in Tampa got into a fatal accident with a minivan on Monday. The motorcycle accident happened on Morris Bridge Road. The motorcycle drove into the minivan. The Harley Davidson collided with the van, killing two on the bike, and leaving the mother driving the minivan in critical condition.There were three other people in the minivan, a man...

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A motorcycle accident involving a car Saturday night, claimed the life of a 38-year-old motorcyclist, at the intersection of County Road 42 and State Road 44, according to Florida Highway Patrol.The man, of Sorrento, was killed when his motorcycle fell and skid into a Ford Bronco, reports FHP. The passenger, a 39-year-old woman, was transported to Orlando Regional Medical Center where she was...

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A motorcyclist from Sorrento was killed in Lake County on Saturday in a motorcycle accident. The driver of a Ford Bronco made a left hand turn in front of the motorcycle. The driver of the motorcycle lost control and slid into the Bronco. A 38-year-old motorcycle rider was killed Saturday in a crash with a car at the intersection of County Road 42 and State Road 44, according to the Florida...

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Motorcyle accidents are on the rise in Tampa due to higher gas prices and more people riding motorcycles to save money. Florida repealed the mandatory helmut law seven years ago and there have been more fatalities related to motorcycle accidents as well. Motorcycle crashes are up all across the state especially in Hillsborough County. Authorities say more people are riding. "We see a great...

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A motorcycle rider has posted some sobering facts about injuries and deaths on the highways. His suggestion of a motorcycle safety class is a good one. But, I would enlarge that to include safety classes for all motorists. In the latter classes, by the way, motorists should be reminded that, in fact, bicycles and motorcycles are legally sharing the road - they are not trespassers who can be...

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The World Health Organization has a message for those who are still not using motorcycle helmets.Increasing Helmet Use Promoted As An Effective Method Of Reducing Road Injuries And DeathsEach year about 1.2 million people die as a result of road traffic crashes, and millions more are injured or disabled. Most of the deaths are preventable.Head injuries are the main cause of death and disability...

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