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Not much focus is given to motorcycle passengers. Passengers perch on small seats behind the rider, lightly grasping the driver around the chest or hips. Never by the shoulders, as this puts the passenger in control of steering the bike, and that’s always a bad idea. But just as there are both responsible and irresponsible…

If you ride a motorcycle, there’s a chance that you’ll get into a motorcycle crash. Every time you head out, you have to be cautious of other drivers. They don’t always see you, which means you have to see them coming first. As a motorcyclist, it’s important to wear all your protective gear at all…

  The autonomous car industry used to brag that their vehicles never got into serious accidents. Not anymore. An autonomous truck owned by Uber Technologies, Inc., recently ran into a pedestrian in Arizona. The 49-year-old female victim was crossing a street without using a crosswalk at the time the accident occurred. She later died in the…

American consumers should never assume that the products they purchase are fully safe. Although product safety laws exist to protect consumers – and give them legal recourse in the event they are harmed by defective goods – there are numerous yet-to-be-discovered dangerous products available for purchase right now. Unfortunately, people usually have to get hurt…

Brain injuries affect every person differently, but it’s particularly difficult for children to understand what has happened to them. At their age, children may not know how to express what they’re going through, which can make giving them appropriate care harder. Children who suffer from injuries to the head need to be seen at an…

There are a lot of little perks that come with riding a motorcycle. Better gas mileage is one of them. The ability to move through even very congested traffic is another. People on motorcycles can maneuver between vehicles, even when traffic has come to a complete stop all around them. The smaller, two-wheeled vehicles can…

If you’re not doing everything you can to avoid vehicle collisions while you’re riding a motorcycle – and if you’re not constantly attentive to safety and defensive driving – you’re putting your life at risk every time you get on the road. Motorcycle riding doesn’t have to be like “Russian Roulette.” Yes, it will always…

Motorcyclists begin to head out on the roads more often in the spring, even here in California. Other motorists are more likely to be expecting them on the roads. The trouble is that motorcycles are still dangerous, and you can get badly hurt if you get into a crash. Before you head out in the…

The federal government has created an array of laws that govern the activities of commercial trucking companies and the truck drivers that work for them. This is because of the extreme dangers presented by heavy semi-trucks, which move slowly and cannot navigate traffic in an agile way, making semi-trucks more prone to being in an…

If you ride a motorcycle often, then you know what it feels like to have someone pull out in front of you with little time to spare. These near-misses make you worry about your safety on the roads, as they should. There’s a legitimate reason behind why you’re at a higher risk than others on…