Jacksonville Florida Personal Injury Attorneys

And 2021 has been even more dangerous for motorcyclists. According to preliminary data as of December 2, 2021, there have been 403 motorcycle crashes in Duval County. From those accidents, 36 people lost their lives. With the addition of Nassau, Clay, and St. Johns counties, have been 569 total crashes and 43 fatalities in 2021.

Whether a rider is wearing a helmet and other protective gear (boots, jacket, gloves, etc.), he or she may sustain serious injuries in a collision. These may include:

You may find it valuable to call our team before giving the insurance company a recorded statement. This way, we can explain your options and how best to proceed so you do not unwittingly make mistakes that could hurt your claim.

In the years before Florida repealed its mandatory helmet law, annual motorcycle deaths were well below 200. Immediately after, those numbers spiked up into the middle 200s, and now sit well below 400 every year. In fact, Florida’s rising death toll of motorcyclists is often used outside the state to defeat repeals of helmet laws in other states, according to The Tampa Bay Times. By wearing a helmet, motorcyclists decrease their chance of death in a crash by 40 percent. However, just because a motorcyclists was not wearing a helmet when they were struck by a car does not mean that they were at fault. Contact our experienced Jacksonville motorcycle accident lawyers today.

For example, imagine you suffered an injury in a motorcycle accident on W. Beaver Street. The driver didn’t check her blind spots before changing lanes and hit you. However, you were also partly at fault because you were traveling over the speed limit. The insurance company apportions you with 30% of the blame and the driver with 70%. In this case, your damages are 30% lower, based on your fault in the accident.

What is nearly universal to a motorcycle accident is some sort of physical disfigurement resulting from the impact with another object. All these injuries require special treatment, both medically and legally. It is always our hope that through advocating safety training and contributing to various motorcycle awareness initiatives, we can be a small part in preventing any and all motorcycle accidents.