{"id":541,"date":"2013-12-06T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury-robertkreisman.lawblogger.net\/?p=541"},"modified":"2013-12-05T23:34:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T05:34:47","slug":"motorcycle-firefighter_killed_after_being_cut_off_by_u-turning_vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/motorcycle-firefighter_killed_after_being_cut_off_by_u-turning_vehicle\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle-Firefighter Killed After Being Cut Off by U-Turning Vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Motorcyclists have a higher fatality rate than drivers of cars. This is due to many factors, but one is the fact that motorists frequently fail to notice motorcycles. In many accidents, the motorcyclist is not wearing a helmet. In some instances, motorcyclists are traveling at high rates of speed, and they collide with a car or truck. Such was the case in the death of D.S.<\/p>\n<p>D.S. was operating a motorcycle eastbound on Aug. 31, 2008 on Higgins Road in Schaumburg when he entered the intersection at Mall Drive with a green light. He was cut off by a car operated by the defendant, T.W. She was making a U-turn from westbound Higgins to head eastbound.<\/p>\n<p>D.S. was killed in the crash. He was survived by his wife and three minor children. D.S. was a firefighter and paramedic with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deerfieldbannockburnfire.org\/\">Deerfield-Bannockburn Fire Department.<\/a> At the time of the accident, he was driving a high-performance motorcycle on his way to a charity run.The defendant was visiting from out of state. Several witnesses testified at trial that the defendant suddenly and unexpectedly made a wide and slow U-turn without activating her turn signal, and she cut D.S. off as he entered the intersection.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/motorcycle-firefighter_killed_after_being_cut_off_by_u-turning_vehicle\/#more-541\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motorcyclists have a higher fatality rate than drivers of cars. This is due to many factors, but one is the fact that motorists frequently fail to notice motorcycles. In many accidents, the motorcyclist is not wearing a helmet. In some instances, motorcyclists are traveling at high rates of speed, and they collide with a car [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,47,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-accidents","category-motorcycle-accidents","category-wrongful-death"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Motorcycle-Firefighter Killed After Being Cut Off by U-Turning Vehicle &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Motorcyclists have a higher fatality rate than drivers of cars. 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