As gas prices soar, motorcycle sales soar as well. The hottest-selling models are small motorcycles which are basically souped-up mopeds. Unfortunately for victims, these motorcycles are also the most dangerous models. 1300 cc motorcycles, which were common in the 1940s and resemble dirt bikes, usually get about 55 or 60 miles per gallon. Manufacturers are […]
The Mets’ first baseman is having another good year. But, he almost didn’t make it to spring training in one piece, after a horrific car crash in Florida. After another driver sideswiped it, Alonso’s Ford F-150 flipped over multiple times. “A big accident like that, when it happens to you, I don't care who you […]
Every year, vehicle collisions in the United States seriously injure more than three million people. Although most people faithfully pay the premiums every month, most group health plans use loopholes to avoid paying the medical bills in these cases. Furthermore, since these victims cannot work as they recover, unpaid bills usually pile up. That’s just […]
A two-vehicle collision not far from a Queens cemetery injured four people, including a 15-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl. The boy was driving a motorcycle on Cooper Avenue near the 88th Street intersection as the girl was behind him, when, for reasons that are unclear, the rider smacked into a Mazda. When emergency responders […]
This subject is very important to us at the Pianko Law Group, mostly because of our close relationship with professional triathlete Matt Russell. In 2017, during the cycling portion of the Kona Ironman World Championship, a speeding car hit Matt. He went through the car's windshield, suffering massive injuries. But in a great testament to […]
A driver who apparently mistook an exit ramp for an entrance ramp smacked into an oncoming vehicle, almost instantly killing an 88-year-old Boonville woman. According to New York State Police investigators, a 72-year-old Schenectady woman was travelling the wrong way on the Erie Boulevard exit ramp from eastbound State Route 365. She hit a Jetta […]