Motorcycle Accidents

• Repeal Of The Motorcycle Helmet Law - Now The Head Hits The Road

  Bob Carroll | October 05, 2005 11:17 PM | 3 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  A report by the National Highway Traffic Administration entitled Evaluation of the Repeal of the All-Rider Motorcycle Helmet Law in Florida shows what happens when unprotected heads hit the road. The report "reviews the crash reports after the repeal of the mandatory motorcycle helmet law [and] it indicates that motorcycle fatalities have increased 81% when comparing 2001-2003 fatalities...

• Terry Bradshaw Was Right About Riding The Motorcycle, Ben

  Bob Carroll | June 12, 2006 5:21 PM | 2 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  If you are Ben Roethlisberger, who quarterbacked the Steelers to a Super Bowl win, you might like to ride a motorcycle. You might even like to ride it without a helmet. But, the man who quarterbacked the Steelers to four Super Bowl wins, Terry Bradshaw, said Ben should wait until he retires. After a motorcycle crash this week that took Ben to surgery, Terry is looking pretty smart. Why does...

• Two Die in Inverness Motorcycle Accident

  Shannon Weidemann | July 08, 2008 7:57 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  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...

• Motorcycle Driver Killed in Tampa Accident

  Shannon Weidemann | June 19, 2008 12:20 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  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...

• Tampa Man Killed in Motorcycle Accident

  Shannon Weidemann | March 29, 2008 9:33 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  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...

• Man Injured in St. Petersburg Motorcycle Accident

  Shannon Weidemann | December 30, 2007 8:00 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  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...

• Brandon Motorcyclist Killed by Drunk Driver

  Joe Saunders | November 28, 2007 8:34 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  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...

• Ridgewood High School Senior Dies in Motorcycle Accident

  Shannon Weidemann | November 06, 2007 8:23 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  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...

• Motorcycle Accident Ends in Tragic Death

  Courtney Mills | September 14, 2007 5:07 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  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...

• Another Motorcyclist Killed on I-275 in Fatal Crash

  Courtney Mills | August 30, 2007 4:11 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  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...