Inflatable Jacket to Reduce Motorcycle Crash Injuries

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12/13/2011
Richard N. Shapiro
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Inflatable Jacket Invented to Reduce Motorcycle Crash Injuries

Necessity is often the mother of invention. For motorcycle riders, it may now mean the difference between life and death. Two companies have created a jacket for motorcycle riders that can inflate like an airbag upon impact. However, improving safety can never make motorcyle riding risk-free

This video shows the new jacket in action:

As a Virginia (VA) motorcycle injury attorney, I have seen serious injuries and deaths result from cars and trucks hitting motorcycles. This happened to one of my clients while he was traveling home from work with his wife on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. Both passengers were severely injured in a head-on collision. The wife suffered multiple fractures to the bones of her arm, wrist, tibia, ankle and hand. The husband sustained a severe pelvic fracture and a scrotal injury.

Injuries on motorcycles are almost always devastating and too often occur when another driver just is not paying attention and does not see the motorcyclist. Though the jackets may lead to less-severe injuries, mtorcyclsts will always be at risk until car and truck drivers pay more attention to their driving.

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Category: Car Accident Lawyers & Motorcycle Accident Attorneys

Labels: distracted drivers head-on collision inflatable motorcycle jacket motorcycle accident VA motorcycle injury attorney Virginia personal injury attorney

About the Editors: Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton is a Virginia injury law firm which focuses on personal injury and accident law and our attorneys have experience handling motorcycle accident cases. Check out this case result involving a motorcycle and a pickup truck. Our primary office in based in Virginia Beach but we're ready to come to you anywhere in Virginia, including Hampton, Portsmouth, Newport News, Norfolk, Chesapeake and Suffolk, VA, if you've been seriously hurt by someone else's carelessness.

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