I am specifically looking for any fatal motorcycle accidents involving a male around August 23, 2006.
Google, KPLC. It’s the local Lake Charles television station.
If you can’t find it on google, go to raycommedia.com. It’s a Raycom Media station. They have an archive file which you can search. If for some reason, you can’t find it. Try e-mailing one of the reporters to see if maybe they could find something for you.
Their good people and friends of mine. Hope you find it.
When you look at other factors such as seat belt use and the safety of newer cars, it seems as though the argument that raising the drinking age to 21 didn’t do that much to lower the risk of death in car crashes. You look at history and when car crash fatalities were highest was in the 60s and 70s when the legal drinking age was 18, but seat belt regulations also weren’t in place, and crash test dummies didn’t get used until the late 70s.
I’m sure that you’re right. The drinking age is pretty much meaningless. What is means is that you can now drink in bars and buy your own alcohol. People drink WELL before they are 21. They also drink and drive WELL before they are 21. What I think will make a difference is raising the driving age to 18 and requiring a full year of driving with a licensed driver in the car before you can get your license. That is what will make a difference. Teenagers will still drink, but they won’t have cars to drive around drunk in. Anyone who thinks that the drinking age is something anyone respects must be living in a cave.
I was exiting the freeway to the right while slowing to the posted limit of 35MPH. I yielded to the cars on the left (on the main street) to make a safe lane change. As the last car drove over the overpass passing me (at a higher speed than mine) I signaled to change lanes to the left. As I was halfway into the lane the last car (going 40-55MPH, mind you this is pass the posted limit) that passed me, before I changed, suddenly came to a complete stop with more than a car lengths in front of him. I had to veer to the left as much as possible to avoid colliding with his rear bumper, even into the next lane to the left. I ended up hitting his back left bumper with my front right one.
There were no witnesses to the accident. The driver called 911 at least 6 times trying to get an officer to the location. 911 instructed him to just exchange information with me, and that since there were no injuries no police report was necessary.
I found this California vehicle code online, and wonder if it will apply in my favor in this situation.
http://law.onecle.com/california/vehicle/26454.html
His vehicle was a Mazda 3, I looked online and it is about 15 feet in length.
Any advice-lawyers? Claim adjusters? Officers?
Is there anything else I can use in my defense?
Correction I posted the link to the wrong code. If you are NOT A LAWYER/CLAIMS ADJUSTER/OFFICER. please refrain from answering this question. I don’t need any advice from a gardener/non expert
Plain and simple…You hit him in the rear. It is your fault. You did not properly adjust your speed or following distance.
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