Take care,

Norm

Norm

Take Care,

Norm

I ride a Harley Dyna Low rider – to work every day – weather permitting – snowing today – sponsor motorcycle charities and am also a registered nurse.

I got into representing motorcycle accident victims when I was still in law school working as a nurse in the burn trauma unit at the U of Utah. As you know road rash is often treated as a dermal burn. Victims would come in and one way or another learn that I was an attorney and a biker and ask me to help them with their case.

I graduated law school and have focused my practice in the last two years on representing motorcycle accident victims. I know the medicine, I know what it is like to ride a bike and I know how to represent people in motorcycle accidents in negotiations with insurance companies or take them to trial. Sooooooo…

I agree with you – those attorneys who pawn themselves off as motorcycle attorneys often are not bikers themselves and know nothing about riding a bike – they do not really understand where the biker is coming from.

In my experience the injured biker just wants to get his bike fixed or written off – get his (or her) body fixed – get a fair shake for the pain and suffering and move on with their lives. By and large bikers are great to deal with – I have never met a biker I didn’t like…

Take care and keep up the good work…

George…

UK: Top Speed Camera Trap Caught Tricking Motorists at Night
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/23/2310.asp

The most profitable UK speed camera issued $26 million in tickets at night when a speed limit change warning sign was completely unlit.

TheNewspaper.com
4/7/2008

The UK’s most profitable speed camera that has been sending $120 tickets to vehicle owners at the rate of 2000 per day may now be forced to issue refunds. The device, located on the southbound M11 at Woodford, Essex is situated at the point where the speed limit suddenly drops from 70 MPH to 50 MPH. Last month motorist Simon Grills forced the Crown Prosecution Service to drop his speed camera ticket after he proved the signs warning of the speed change were effectively invisible at night. Grills produced evidence showing the lights meant to illuminate the signs had been burned out since November 18, 2005. Grills had spent months fighting the ticket he received in September 2006.

“When I got flashed I couldn’t work out how I’d missed the sign,” Grills told the Sunday Mirror newspaper. “Then it clicked — it’s simply not visible at night.”

The Mirror estimated that since the bulbs burned out at least 214,000 drivers had been trapped by the camera at night, generating ?13 million (US $26 million) in revenue.

The speed camera in question has been the center of controversy since it was first installed, inspiring one group to take its disagreement outside the courtroom. Captain Gatso, the leader of the anti-photo enforcement vigilante organization known as Motorists Against Detection (MAD), cited the M11 camera as evidence that officials were engaging in “fleecing, not policing” and proceeded to use a heavy truck to yank the device off of its mounting in late 2002.
http://www.speedcam.co.uk/welcome.htm

“We have spoken to numerous police officers and emergency service personnel countrywide and they agree that the majority of speed cameras are sited for revenue, not safety, and in a lot of cases they just impede general progress,” Captain Gatso said in a statement at the time.

Source: Over 200,000 drivers could get speed camera refund – Sunday Mirror 3/30/2008
http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/sunday/2008/03/30/flash-cam-walloped-98487-20367189/

Youtube – Sportbikers Firebomb Gatso Speed Camera
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpsBI1FfVxg

Every traffic ticket trial is potentially a class action to refund all tickets.
http://www.dbhamilton.com/subpage13.html