A Georgia motorcyclist is dead after a driver traveling behind him on the Florida Turnpike failed to see him brake for traffic Saturday evening. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the accident occurred not long after sunset on Saturday in Martin County. Twenty-three-year-old Vivian R. Hagerty was driving north on…
Monday evening around 7 p.m. a motorcycle, in a scene that looked like it had been pulled straight out of a movie or television show, flew over an exit ramp’s wall, landed on a vehicle driving below, then burst into flames. Both the motorcyclist and automobile driver were transported to…
U.S. 1 in the Florida Keys has recently become the site of a number of fatal and serious injury accidents. Since March 1, more than a half dozen serious accidents have been reported from the 18-Mile Stretch that connects the Keys to the mainland down through Key Largo. These crashes…
A new government report issued this week stated that in 2010, direct costs from motorcycle accidents cost $16 billion, but those costs are expected to rise over the coming years due to the difficult in measure long-term medical expenses. Motorcycle drivers are thirty times more likely to die in a…
Marlin Joyce Gunter of Marathon, Florida died Saturday while riding her motorcycle near mile marker 29. She was a passenger on her 2004 Harley Davidson bike, which was being driven by her friend Thomas Bateman, when they were rear-ended by another car. The force of the impact pushed the bike…
Thirty-five year old Thomas Labelle was driving his 2002 Harley Davidson motorcycle down Interstate 75 when he lost control and struck a cable barrier. The collision with the barrier completely severed Labelle’s right arm. Labelle was taken to Lee Memorial Hospital via helicopter after the 6:15 crash for medical treatment.…
In September 2009, David and Linda Kubert were riding their motorcycle when a teenager, Kyle Best, who was texting while driving, crashed into them. Both David and Linda lost a leg in the accident–David’s leg was torn off above the knee during the crash and Linda eventually had to have…
Guido Biallo was driving down Southwest Rosser Boulevard near Southwest Meridian Avenue in Port St. Lucie last week when he motorcycle collided with a truck. The accident, which occurred on Southwest Rosser Boulevard in western Port St. Lucie around 8:00 p.m., left Biallo, 52, dead. Police have begun a preliminary…
He was a soldier. He was a Border Patrol agent. He was a motorcyclist. He wasn’t killed during his tour in Iraq. Drug smugglers or boarder jumpers didn’t kill him. Cheldon Levay Glover was killed after a car struck his motorcycle as he was driving down Intestate 95 on January…
In June of last year, John Garcia was killed while riding his motorcycle in the early morning hours. John Holman failed to yield to Garcia as he was making a left hand turn and crashed his Jeep Wrangler into the sixty-three year old man’s motorcycle. Florida Highway Patrol cited Holman…