Mississippi Motorcycle Accident Attorneys

Motorcycle Accident Lawyers–Serving Mississippi Over 75 Years

Motorcycles have become increasingly popular as a means of transportation and form of recreation.  Motorcycles offer substantial advantages, including high levels of fuel efficiency with reduced levels of pollution.  Despite these advantages, the energy efficiency benefits of motorcycles may not offset the high cost of medical treatment associated with serious collisions involving motorcyclists.  Those who ride motorcycles are more prone to be involved in a motor vehicle collision, and those collisions typically result in severe injury and even wrongful death.

Motorcycles offer none of the protections of other motor vehicles, such as cars, pickups and SUVs.  Motorcyclists are faced with a number of safety limitations.  Because a motorcycle must be balanced to ride, it is less stable when another driver cuts off a rider, or the rider must suddenly apply the breaks to avoid a collision.  The relatively diminutive size of a motorcycle makes it more likely that distracted drivers or drivers that do not turn and look when changing lanes will collide with someone riding a motorcycle.  Because motorcycles offer no structural protection in the form of a body or frame and no safety equipment like shoulder belts, lap belts, and air bags.

Mississippi Motorcycle Accident Lawyers Handling All Types of Motorcycle Collision Claims

While unsafe roadways and defects in motorcycles cause some severe motorcycle accidents, the most dangerous threat to those who use motorcycles to travel the streets and highways in Mississippi is negligent drivers of passenger vehicles.  Although those from all social strata and walks of life enthusiastically ride motorcycles, there are still drivers that maintain biases toward motorcycle enthusiasts and do not show appropriate courtesy and caution to prevent motorcycle accidents.  While many types of unsafe driving may contribute to a motorcycle crash, common examples include:

• • Improper lane changes
  • Using mobile phones while driving
  • Unsafe speed especially given weather and road conditions
  • Not allowing a safe following distance
  • Driving while under the influence of alcohol, prescription drugs, illegal narcotics, or over-the-counter medications
  • Aggressive driving practices, such as weaving through traffic or passing on the shoulder
  • Unsafe passing or turns
  • Driving while fatigued or drowsy

Recovery for Serious Head Trauma and Other Mississippi Motorcycle Accident Injuries

Each year across the country, these types of unsafe driving practices cause tens of thousands of motorcycle enthusiasts to be injured and thousands more to die in fatal motorcycle accidents.  If you ride a motorcycle, you are twenty times more likely to be involved in a motor vehicle accident.  These collisions can result in many serious injuries, including head injuries that can cause permanent brain injury.  Other serious injuries common in motorcycle accidents may include:

• • Damage to vital internal organs
  • Spinal cord trauma resulting in paralysis
  • Loss of arms or legs
  • Severe disfigurement
  • Crushed bones and compound fractures
  • Wrongful death

When suffering these types of life-altering injuries, it is imperative that you have a personal injury law firm on your team that understands the unique challenges faced by motorcycle enthusiasts.  We may be able to seek a number of different types of financial compensation, including lost income, medical and/or rehabilitation expenses, pain and suffering, property loss, impaired enjoyment of life experiences, loss of consortium, burial/funeral expenses and even punitive damages.  While not all of these damages will be available in every motorcycle accident case, we offer a free consultation so that we can evaluate your claim and provide more specific information about your legal rights and remedies.  Our Mississippi personal injury attorneys have successfully represented thousands of motor vehicle accident victims, including many injured in Mississippi motorcycle accidents over the last 75 years.   Our dedicated Mississippi motorcycle accident attorneys at Barrett Law, PLLC offer compassionate representation and zealous advocacy so contact us immediately at (601) 790-1505 to learn how we can help.