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...thrown everywhere, he said. "I've never seen a crash at speeds higher than 100 that people have walked away from," he said. "I don't even like talking about it. It is graphic, graphic, graphic." It doesn't help that Florida repealed a mandatory helmet law for motorcyclists a decade ago. There were more than 500 Florida motorcyclist deaths in 2008 - compared with 22 in 1999, the year before the law was shelved. (See pictures of the world's most expensive motorcycles...
...late evening of Jan. 20, an elderly man bicycling in Itami, a town outside Osaka, Japan, collided with a motorcyclist. After receiving first aid from the rescue workers who arrived on the scene, the 69-year-old was refused by 14 hospitals, citing a lack of doctors or resources to handle his case, as he was driven around in an ambulance. Three hours later, after he was finally admitted to one facility, the man died of hemorrhagic shock...
...about 9%. Frustrated Macanese have taken to the streets in protest several times over the past few years. Although citizens have no history of civil disobedience, during a May Day labor march last year, workers scuffled with police, who fired into the air and accidentally wounded a passing motorcyclist...
...Friday, when the House celebrated the retirement of its longtime building manager, the masters presented Coveney with a gift to commemorate his presence. The gift from House Masters Diana L. Eck and Dorothy A. Austin was a black leather motorcycle jacket embroidered with the Lowell insignia. Coveney, an avid motorcyclist, donned the jacket over a Harley-Davidson shirt as the party came to a close. The present was emblematic of the personal flair noted by Coveney’s colleagues. “He brought a certain style to the House,” Eck said. She added that Coveney?...
...motorcycle shot him in the head. On Sept. 13, Miami-Dade police Sgt. Jose Somohano died and three other officers were injured by an assailant armed with an AK-47, three years to the day after the expiration of the Federal Assault Weapons ban. On August 6, a motorcyclist shot Broward Sheriff's Det. Maury Hernandez in the head when pulled over during a routine traffic stop. Although Hernandez survived and is recovering in a local hospital, his colleague, BSO Sgt. Christopher Reyka, who was shot just four days later while checking on stolen cars...