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Approximately one-quarter of these motorcycle accidents were single vehicle accidents involving the motorcycle colliding with the roadway or some fixed object in the environment. Vehicle failure accounted for less than 3% of these motorcycle accidents, and most of those were single vehicle accidents where control was lost due to a puncture flat.
Motorcycle builder and stuntman Concord, North Carolina: Butch Laswell: March 10, 1996: 37 American Motorcycle stunt rider: Honda CR500 Mesquite, Nevada: Joi Harris: August 14, 2017: 40 American Motorcycle road racer and stuntwoman Vancouver, British Columbia: Killed while filming a motorcycle stunt
A 2007 motorcycle crash scene investigation in San Francisco. Professor Hurt, with a team of investigators (all of whom were motorcyclists themselves) [3] examined motorcycle accident scenes in the City of Los Angeles, day and night, during the twenty-four-month period of 1976–77. They did on-scene investigations of over 900 accidents and ...
The motorcycle stood itself up and continued along the motorway, periodically scraping the median barrier, thereby keeping balance. It was found in Bercy, 9 km (5.6 mi) from the location of the collision. The riderless motorcycle was witnessed and filmed by passing drivers. [235] June 25 – Pakistan – Bahawalpur explosion. A tanker truck ...
Motorcycle construction is the engineering, manufacturing, and assembly of components and systems for a motorcycle which results in the performance, cost, and aesthetics desired by the designer. With some exceptions, construction of modern mass-produced motorcycles has standardised on a steel or aluminium frame , telescopic forks holding the ...
Air accident: Misima Island, Papua New Guinea: 3: 2010 Aug 31: Cessna Citation crashed on landing. One New Zealander also killed. [459] Earthquake Turkey and Syria: 3 2023 Feb 6 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake [460] Air accident: Weybridge, United Kingdom: 2: 1922 Apr 13: Vickers Viking, piloted by Captain Ross Macpherson Smith, crashed on test ...
Troy Gordon Corser (born 27 November 1971) is an Australian former professional motorcycle road racer. He competed in the Superbike World Championship from 1992 to 2011 except for the 1997 season when he competed in Grand Prix motorcycle racing. [1] Corser won the Superbike World championship in 1996 and 2005. [1]
Wayne Michael Gardner AM [1] (born 11 October 1959) is an Australian former professional motorcycle and touring car racer. He competed in the Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championships from 1986 to 1992, most prominently as a member of the Honda factory racing team where he became the first Australian to win motorcycling's premier class in 1987. [2]