Newport News Motorcycle Accident Attorney

The Peninsula's left-turn problem

Newport News riders get hurt where the long arterials turn and merge — Jefferson Avenue, Warwick Boulevard, Mercury Boulevard, and the I-64 interchanges. The signature wreck here is the left-turn or pull-out collision: a driver crosses in front of an oncoming motorcycle and later swears the bike 'came out of nowhere.' It did not. It was there to be seen, and with no crumple zone the rider absorbs an impact that would leave a car with a scratch.

A rider's case is won on the record

Insurers count on jurors quietly assuming the rider was reckless, so the case has to answer that with facts. The sightline analysis showing the driver had a clear view, the point and angle of impact showing who crossed whose path, and what the driver admitted at the scene are what carry a motorcycle claim — not the rider's word against the driver's.

It also means shutting down the standard misdirection, that a rider's gear somehow caused an injury it had nothing to do with. Nail the record down and the insurer's '1% at fault' theory has nowhere to stand. You pay nothing unless I win.