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Check the local news, and stories of cars pulling out in front of motorcyclists run regularly in the headlines. Recent research by a Texas Tech University
Via Steven M. Sweat, Gladys Wiles, Michael Ehline
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Via Steven M. Sweat, Gladys Wiles, Michael Ehline
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an article by RI Motorcycle Accident lawyer David Slepkow 401-437-1100
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Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is called the “silent epidemic” because it is not well recognized or often well diagnosed but, yet it is estimated to affect approximately 1,500,000 Americans as well as thousands of Rhode Island, Massachusetts and California Residents every year. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), this results in tens of thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations every year in the U.S. Even cases which are deemed “mild” (clinically defined as a loss of consciousness for anything less than 30 minutes) can have serious long term side effects like memory loss and loss of other cognitive functions.
Why is head trauma one of the most common injuries sustained by bike riders and motorcyclists?When a person riding a bicycle or motorcycle is struck by a larger motor vehicle such as an automobile, truck or sport utility vehicle, one of the most common scenarios is an ejectment of the biker and a collision of their body with either the vehicle, the pavement or some other fixed object. Unfortunately, this impact is sustained by the head in many of these instances. The dynamic from there is that the brain impacts with the skull even in cases where the skull is not fractured. While helmets lessen the effect of this type of blow to the head, they don’t always prevent concussions. In fact, recent studies by the U.S. Product Safety Commission indicate that bike-related concussions have actually increased significantly in the past 10 years despite an increased use of bike helmets. In the case of motorcyclists, the helmets approved by the U.S. Department of Transportation, provide a significantly higher rate of protection, however, given the rates of speed and potential for a higher velocity head impact, the incidence of TBI in motorcycle accident cases is even higher.
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Is your brain playing tricks on you and causing you to misjudge an object, such as a motorcycle on the road as it comes to an intersection? This article discusses that very issue. This size-arrival effect that can lead drivers to misjudge when a vehicle would arrive at an intersection and could be considered a contributing factor in motorcycle/vehicle accidents is a game changer. This is such an interesting development Steven Sweat. I'm really curious to see how this would play out in a courtroom during a trial with a jury. The findings in this article that an object’s size affects distance perception may be the basis of car drivers miscalculating motorcyclists’ distance and speed are fascinating.
A motorcycle's small size and nomenclature, makes it hard for both riders and ordinary vehicle drivers to properly estimate the speed and distance of an oncoming motorcycle (read more), and the new brain miscalculation study reveals this.