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Motorcycle deaths remain steady as overall vehicle deaths drop

WASHINGTON -- No progress was made last year in reducing motorcyclist deaths, even though overall motor vehicle fatalities dropped to their lowest level since 1949, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association.

One reason, the group said, may be that high gas prices are driving more people to ride motorcycles. But the group also sought to use the data to make the case for mandatory helmet laws, which are under attack in five states.

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Idaho motorcyclist loses control, crashes in South Weber

SOUTH WEBER -- A 34-year-old Idaho man was transported to Ogden Regional Medical Center on Monday evening after losing control of a motorcycle he was riding.

Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Jason Sills said the man was entering northbound Highway 89 from South Weber Drive when he went onto the shoulder of the road and into some gravel.

Pedaling my annual plea to get along on two wheels or four

Today is Earth Day. Go take a bicycle ride and help save the planet.

Sheriff’s office IDs fatal crash victim

MARRIOTT-SLATERVILLE — The Weber County Sheriff’s Office identified the motorcyclist who died Friday afternoon as Jeffery Burge of Salt Lake City.

(MICHAEL McFALL/Standard-Examiner) A bronze Ford Focus involved in an accident that killed a motorcyclist is seen after the crash at the Route 66 gas station on 12th Street and 1200 West.

50-year-old motorcyclist dies after striking car in Ogden

OGDEN — A 50-year-old man died after his motorcycle struck a car Friday afternoon.

The man, who was not immediately identified, was driving west on 12th Street, and a woman in her mid-50s was driving east in a bronze Ford Focus, said Weber County Sheriff’s Lt. Mark Lowther.

Investigators are not sure what all the circumstances were when the woman turned north at 1200 West, but as she turned through the intersection, the man crashed into the side of her car around 4:15 p.m.

Katelyn Young

Unlicensed driver earns jail time for fatal collision with motorcycle in Farr West

OGDEN -- A 19-year-old woman charged with negligent homicide in a fatal collision with a motorcyclist was sentenced Thursday to 120 days in the county jail.

Katelyn Young, of Ogden, was charged in November with the class A misdemeanor count of negligent homicide in the Aug. 13, 2010, death of Kenneth Cox, 64, in a crash in Farr West.

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Two Weber County residents were seriously injured when their motorcycle crashed into a car they had been following on State Road 38, north of Honeyville.

2 Weber County residents injured in motorcycle crash near Honeyville

HONEYVILLE -- Two Weber County residents were seriously injured when their motorcycle crashed into a car they had been following around 2 p.m. Sunday.

Katelyn Young

Ogden woman faces negligent homicide charge in motorcyclist's 2010 death

OGDEN -- A 19-year-old has been charged with negligent homicide in the traffic death of a motorcyclist.

'Maddo' the mad motorcyclist takes aim on bay jump

For those of us who can't make a bed without stubbing a toe, and fear things like moldy containers in the back of our refrigerator, Robbie Maddison is hard to fathom.

The 30-year-old stunt motorcyclist actually seeks out tricks that endanger his life -- and performs them, not just because they make him money and get people to mutter admiring swear words, but because they fulfill some core desire in his soul.

Maddison, LaVallee to try side-by-side jumps

SAN DIEGO -- What's better than one daredevil flying through the sky on New Year's Eve?

How about two.

Robbie Maddison and Levi LaVallee will make side-by-side attempts to break world records for the longest motorcycle and snowmobile jumps in the latest edition of the Red Bull: New Year. No Limits. series

The concurrent jumps will be over a 300-foot water gap at Embarcadero Marina Park on San Diego Bay.

LaVallee of Longville, Minn., was scheduled to attempt his snowmobile jump last New Year's Eve in snowless San Diego but was seriously injured in a crash during training two weeks earlier.

Maddison wants to jump 400 feet, which would shatter the current record of 391 feet. LaVallee wants to break his record of 361 feet, set hours before his big wipeout.

Physical therapist Doug Stromberg works with Brandon Wright as he takes his first steps following his accident,Tuesday, Nov.  8, 2011 at Logan Regional Hospital in Logan, Utah.   Wright is slowly taking his first steps after the entire globe saw the local student rescued from underneath a burning car by about a dozen strangers in September.   (AP Photo/The Herald Journal, Eli Lucero)

USU student pulled from burning car on road to recovery

Man pulled from burning car on road to recovery

 

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By SATENIK SARGSYAN

The Herald Journal

LOGAN, Utah (AP) -- Brandon Wright is slowly taking his first steps after the entire globe saw the Logan-area student rescued from underneath a burning car by about a dozen strangers in September.

Two injured in motorcycle crash

OGDEN — Two local motorcyclists are expected to recover after they crashed coming over a jump Sunday afternoon at Hot Springs Raceway, 962 N. Harrisville Road.

Hells Angels member killed at funeral for fellow biker

LOS ANGELES -- A Hells Angels member was fatally shot Saturday at the San Jose funeral for a fellow biker who was killed last month at a Nevada casino, police said.

Motorcycle ride pileup kills 1

POST FALLS, Idaho -- A 65-year-old Post Falls man died of injuries he sustained during a three-motorcycle accident Saturday morning near Rock Lake in northwest Whitman County.

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