1 dead after motorcycle crash; passenger critical 9th traffic fatality this year; passenger in critical condition Thyrie Bland • tbland@pnj.com • October 14, 2008
A man died early Monday and another was badly injured in a motorcycle crash in Pensacola.Troy Dean, 19, of Pace was driving a motorcycle that crashed into a guardrail on Scenic Highway about 600 feet south of Langley Avenue, Pensacola police said.Christopher Miller, 19, a passenger on the motorcycle, was in critical condition Monday afternoon at Sacred Heart Hospital. Miller's address was not available.The accident victims were not wearing helmets, police said.
While wearing helmets may not have prevented Dean's death or Miller's injuries, wearing them "certainly gives you a better chance of survival," Pensacola Assistant Police Chief Chip Simmons said.
Florida repealed its mandatory helmet law in 2000. Riders under 21 and riders who do not carry at least $10,000 of medical insurance are required to wear helmets.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that helmets reduce the likelihood of a someone being killed in a motorcycle crash by 37 percent.
O.K. so here is we chime. You have a news article from the Pensacola Journal "reporting" onthe death of Two motorcyclists. Now in this report we see no cause of death. We see no medical statement that the wearing of a helmet would have saved these people. In Fact, we have a police officer stating that
"While wearing helmets may not have prevented Dean's death or Miller's injuries, wearing them "certainly gives you a better chance of survival," Pensacola Assistant Police Chief Chip Simmons said"
Dear ASSistant Police Chief CHipster, are you a medical examiner, were or were not helmets a factor in the fatalities resulting from these crashes? If they are not, why are you spouting off at the lip about "helmets". As to the reporter (excuse me, hack writer who confuses personal agenda with what is supposed to be the unbiased act of "reporting".) Did you follow up on this story to determine whether or not helmets played a factor in the deaths of these individuals. OR did you just follow the mainstream jouranlistic preference to engage in propaganda and decide to editorialize in the middle of a report on the death of two individuals.
If in fact you and your partner in fact gathering ASSitant Chief Chippie did use this report on the tragic death of two individuals to engage in editorializing about your government backed propaganda, then you have violated the ethics of honest journalism and should immediately quit your jobs. If you choose not to quit your job, please write NHTSA and ask them how they arrived at there conclusion that wearing a helmet gives on a 37% chance of survival. That would be called investigative reporting.
have you heard of that term? Do you know how to do it or would you like me to come over and teach you how to use a damn phone.
Then ask them if that 37% applied to last week, yesterday, today because you see (no you probably don't) every day there are accidents the statistics change. Kinda like the stock market. Aw duh dey didn't not teach me that in news cipherin school.
Dean is the ninth traffic fatality in the city this year.
There were six traffic deaths in the city as of Oct. 13, 2007. The number of deaths all of last year was seven.
The accident happened about 1:15 a.m. Monday as Dean was headed north on Scenic Highway at a high rate of speed, police said. The speed limit is 45 mph.The motorcycle hit a guardrail on the west side of the road. Dean and Miller were thrown from the motorcycle, police said
Gary VerCrouse, president of the Gulf Coast Chapter of American Bikers Aiming Toward Education, said obeying the speed limit is one the most important safety tips for a motorcyclist. VerCrouse said the chances of someone surviving a motorcycle crash are not good when speeding. "There is not much that is going to help when you crash into something," he said.
Dear Mr. "aiming towards education" ABATE guy . You had an opportunity to educate both officer and reporter here. Were you afraid to alienate the establishment? Is that fear part and parcel of why ABATE abandoned the term "A BrotherHood Against Totalitarian Enactments"Add to Technorati Favorites?
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