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Motorcycle accidents are a common occurrence in Riverside. These regions popular with motorcyclists, and with so many bikes on the roads, the number of collisions is high, and motorcycle accidents are a major safety and economic issue for riders in the Riverside area.
Get information on motorcycle crashes from region's police departments
The region's law enforcement agencies offers information on accidents, including:
This is why you avoid flood waters at all costs. In a video taken at Jerry's Rentals and Outfitter outside New Braunfels, Texas, we see a Jeep go from being parked in relatively shallow water to being rolled over like a toy in the swollen Guadalupe River.
Kim Jacobs posted the footage on Facebook, reminding people just how seriously you should heed flood warnings, saying,
Motor vehicle accidents are a common occurrence in Huntsville - Decatur region. Many crashes are completely avoidable, caused by drunk drivers, drugged drivers, or distracted drivers accidents. The risk of these collisions are a major safety and economic issue for these communities.
Get information on drunk driving crashes from the police departments in the Huntsville - Decatur region
The region's law enforcement agencies offer information on drunk driving accidents, and also provide information on filing a police report and on obtaining a police report.
As mass transit systems grow across Huntsville and Decatur, bus accidents occur regularly. When a bus crash happens, serious injuries and fatalities are a common result.
Statistics related to Huntsville and Decatur bus crashes
According to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, over the past 10 years:
The number of buses involved in fatal crashes decreased from 274 to 251, an 8% drop;
Bicycling is becoming more popular in the Huntsville and Decatur communities, and along with this popularity comes the risk of injuries and accidents.
While rare compared to other types of motor-vehicle crashes, aircraft accidents do happen regularly, usually with devastating results. Despite significant safety improvements over the past decades, many people each year experience the pain of losing someone in an airplane crash.
The size and speed of trains brings death and destruction to anyone and anything in their path. The main forms of train accidents are train derailments, train and pedestrian accidents, and train and car accidents.
To learn about train accidents in Huntsville and Decatur, go to the Federal Railroad Administration site.
According to the U.S. Coast Guard, from 2013 to 2014, deaths increased from 560 to 610, an 8.9% increase, injuries increased from 2,620 to 2,678, a 2.2% increase and the total number of accidents increased from 4,062 to 4,064, a 0.05% increase nationally. Where the cause of death was known, 78% of fatal boating accident victims drowned; of those drowning victims, 84% were not wearing a life jacket.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safey (IIHS) has released the results of a new study that demonstrate that, while automakers have achieved great success in protecting drivers in crashes, they have to some work to do when it comes to saving passengers. In fact, of the seven SUVs tested for passenger-side "small overlap" collisions, only one received a "good" rating, while the others ranged from "poor" to "adequate."
Here at Accident Data Center, since our focus is providing data about crashes across the nation, we have learned that every single accident involves an insurance policy. We all know we need insurance, but for all of the low-mileage drivers out there, it doesn't seem fair to have to pay the same amount as higher-mileage drivers.