You were riding, focused on the road and trying to stay safe, and then everything changed in a second. A hard impact. Screeching. Maybe the taste of metal in your mouth. Then you looked up, and the other driver was already gone. No license plate, no apology, no information. Just pain, anger, and a bike that might be wrecked.
You might be replaying it again and again, trying to remember any detail you missed. The color of the car. A bumper sticker. A partial plate that just will not come back to you. At the same time, you are staring…
As a California personal injury attorney, I’ve watched the way we prove what actually happened in a car or motorcycle crash change dramatically over the past decade. Skid marks, eyewitness memory, and the officer’s best guess used to be the backbone of accident reconstruction. Today, one of the most powerful tools in my toolkit sits quietly inside the vehicle itself: the Event Data Recorder, or EDR.
If you’ve been in a serious crash, there’s a good chance your car — or the car that hit you — was already telling the story before your lawyer ever got involved. And most…
You might be looking at your helmet on the shelf and feeling a mix of fear, anger, and grief. Before the crash, you were weaving through San Francisco traffic on a sport bike, feeling sharp and in control. Now you may be limping, riding a scooter, or avoiding two wheels altogether, and every honk or close call on the street brings that moment back.
You may also be staring at medical bills, insurance letters, and DMV notices, wondering how a split second could flip your life, your commute, and your finances so completely. This is the “before and after” that…
You might still hear it in your head. The sudden screech of brakes, the sickening hit, the feeling of your bike slipping out from under you while you were lane splitting into San Francisco on the Bay Bridge or 101. One moment you were threading traffic like you have so many times. The next moment, you are on the pavement or in an ER, asking yourself what just happened and what comes next.
It is normal to feel shaken, angry, or even guilty. You might be replaying every second, wondering if lane splitting will automatically be blamed, worried about your…
You might be replaying the moment over and over in your head. The scooter cut in front of you, the cyclist swerved into your lane, or a pedestrian stepped off the curb without looking, and you did what any careful rider would do. You laid the bike down or swerved to avoid a direct hit, and now you are the one injured, facing medical bills, bike repairs, and a lot of questions about who is actually responsible.
That is the harsh “before and after” of a motorcycle crash in San Francisco. One moment you are just riding, the next you…
