Steven Sanchez and Jason Perez chased down drunk driver after he fled the scene of an accident.
All too often, holiday festivities take a deadly turn when an individual chooses to drink alcohol and then get behind the wheel of a car. Last year, 415 people were killed in traffic crashes involving a drunk driver or motorcycle rider in the last half of December alone. And, according to research from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, January 1 is among the top five deadliest days on America's roadways.
For the first time ever, the Motorcycle Industry Council is offering the motorcycling community an in-depth tire guide...FREE!
It was with the generous support of Shoei Safety Helmet Corp. that the Motorcycle Safety Foundation was able to include braking instrumentation in its unprecedented, one-year-long MSF 100 Motorcyclists Naturalistic Study.
Shoei claims the RF-1100 to be unrivaled in every feature category and goes on to say there is not another helmet on the market that truly embodies motorcycling quite like the RF-1100. Building helmets is a passion at SHOEI, which is why they stopped at no end while evolving the RF-1100 into a best seller.
The Motorcycle Safety Foundation recently graduated its six millionth RiderCourseSM student, a milestone reached through the ongoing efforts of nearly 10,000 RiderCoaches at more than 2,000 training sites worldwide. Though it would be impossible to identify the six millionth student, the MSF determined the total number of graduates through its enrollment statistics.
Here is the story! The crash happened Fri 2nd near Denver, Colorado. Cody Knight was traveling northbound on Kipling St. when a truck turned left in front of him onto 20th. Cody lost consciousness at the time of impact. Once at the hospital he waited over 3 hours for his mother to arrive and then he died. He never regained consciousness.
The first rider participating in the first-ever MSF 100 Motorcyclists Naturalistic Study rode off with a fully instrumented, data-logging bike from the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) last week, marking the start of the year-long research project. Each of the 100 bikes, routinely being ridden in real-world traffic, and equipped with an array of data acquisition systems, will provide comprehensive, real-time, near-crash, pre-crash and actual-crash information that is unprecedented in motorcycle research.
NHTSA announced the launch of a campaign involving nearly 10,000 law enforcement agencies nationwide in support of an intensive crackdown on impaired driving August 19 thru September 5, known as Drive Sober Or Get Pulled Over.
Often times saving a life on the road is as basic as getting people to slow down, buckle up, or don a helmet. Tried and true countermeasures like these usually don't grab headlines, but if they were more widely propagated across the nation they would yield an immediate reduction in motor vehicle crash deaths.