San Diego Personal Injury Lawyer articles in category: Motorcycle Accidents

The driver of a motorcycle was seriously injured in a collision that has closed westbound lanes of Balboa Avenue from Mount Culebra Avenue to Mount Everest Boulevard in Clairemont.San Diego police said a woman was driving east in a car on Balboa, started turning left onto Mount Culebra and was broadsided by the motorcyclist about 6:20 p.m.The motorcyclist was believed to have suffered a major...

A motorcycle crash in El Cajon Saturday killed a passenger on the vehicle and left its driver with multiple injuries. Shanna Vogel, 33, of El Cajon died shortly after the crash, which occurred about 7:10 p.m. Saturday near Bancroft Drive and Lemon Avenue, the Medical Examiner's Office said. The motorcycle ran off a curve on Bancroft Drive. La Mesa police were investigating the cause of the...

Motorcyclists who ride high-performance racing motorcycles called supersport bikes are being killed in accidents at a rate nearly four times higher than those who ride all other types of bikes. The bikes are built on racing platforms and then modified for the highway before being sold to consumers. Research conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found the greatest insurance...

A 22-year-old U.S. Air Force enlistee was killed in a fatal motorcycle accident after being thrown from his motorcycle, on Interstate Highway 80, early this morning.The motorcyclist was heading south on Interstate Highway 505 on his 2003 Honda motorcycle when he ran off the south side of the I-505 transition road to west I-80, according to California Highway Patrol.The motorcycle crossed all of...

A motorcycle accident on Interstate 80 slowed commuter traffic down to a crawl, but had a happy ending when the rider ejected from the bike, was not seriously injured.California Highway Patrol reports, a motorcyclist was traveling along the carpool lane at 6:36 a.m. approaching University Avenue when a pickup truck switched lanes in front of the motorcycle, causing the rider to lose control and...

A motorcycle accident on Saturday, June 23, closed down Angeles Crest highway for three hours injuring two motorcyclists. The accident started a fire that burned a one-tenth acre in the Angeles National Forest.The two motorcycles sideswiped one another at the highway curve. One of the motorcyclists was, a 41-year-old man of La Miranda and the other was a 32-year-old man, of Torrance. Both...

After leading a California Highway Patrol Officer on a chase, an active duty sailor and his sister were killed in a motorcycle accident when they crashed and were ejected from the motorcycle. Imperial Beach residents Christopher, 21, and Rachel, 25, were pronounced dead at the scene that happened on Sunday at 7:15 p.m., according to the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office.The man was...

Two motorcyclists were involved in a motorcycle accident on the San Diego (405) Freeway next to Sherman Oaks, on Tuesday, leaving one person with a broken leg whilst also blocking two of the southbound freeway lanes, authorities said.The motorcycle crash occurred just shortly before 6am just south of Sepulveda Boulevard, reported an officer with the California Highway Patrol. The carpool lane...

Two people died in a head-on motorcycle collision with a Cadillac Escalade on State Route 78, said Sand Diego Police.The collision occurred just east of the San Diego wild Animal Park at 9:48am, according to the California Highway Patrol. The victims were riding a 2006 Yamaha going east, when the bike crossed into oncoming traffic and hit the Cadillac head-on, said Vandiver. A third vehicle...

A Bakersfield man was killed when his motorcycle slammed into the rear of a parked car on Manor Street Tuesday night.The collision caused the motorcycle to become stuck in the left rear of the vehicle and the driver was thrown a couple hundred feet, said California Highway Patrol Sergeant Travis Mitchell. The driver, Peter Paul Juarez, III, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident,...

Saturday evening a man died after losing control of his motorcycle near Arroyo Grande and hitting a telephone pole, said California Highway Patrol officials.The unidentified 45-year-old man was taken to Arroyo Grande Community Hospital where he was pronounced dead at approximately 7:30 p.m., said CHP officials. As of Saturday night the man had not been identified and family hasn't yet been...