Motorcycle Fatality - A family needs help.

Glad you finally see it my way "Esquire"

For someone that claims to be a lawyer you seem to be making some contradictory statements.

"While I'm a lawyer myself, I'd respectfully disagree with your advice. Assuming that the original post is not a hoax (and, again, I reiterate my concern that it's a front page MO story that hasn't been verified in any way), I think it's totally unacceptable to file a wrongful death suit against the driver in the absence of some evidence of wrongdoing on his part. Undoubtedly some lawyer will be willing to do it, but imagine, if you will, the pain and anxiet that you'd be inflicting on someone who--as far as we can tell by what we know--did nothing wrong"

Yea right you are lawyer I think your are a BSer that writes better than me.....

Exhibit 1:

"As was mentioned earlier, civil liability is not dependent on the driver receiving a traffic ticket or being convicted--it's an entirely separate determination."

Who said that I did.

Re: U are a classic nut

KPail

KBucket

KBucketofshyt

KWoodyAllen

It's difficult to come up with a name that could describe someone as evil as you.

[email protected] will probably have to do.

"The photo that's now posted actually sheds a completely different light on this, since it appears that the collision occurred on the shoulder of the road and not in the far right lane, as first indicated".



I don't think you are thinking this all the way through. Let's assume for a second the witnesses in the newspaper story are correct and the collision occurred in the slow lane of I-20. The photo only shows where the truck stopped, it says nothing about which lane the collision occurred in. It is not only possible but probable that the driver of the truck tried to get off the road after the collision. If the impact occurred in the slow lane you would have to believe there would be evidence of that, like a long road gouge as the bike was pushed forward under the front of the truck, and the same would be true if the impact occurred on the shoulder, but we don't have that evidence, either way, we do have witnesses though. Witnesses at the scene, according to the St. Clair Times, say the bike was sitting in the far right lane with it's lights off. I see nothing in the photo that contradicts that.

Iceworm--

You're absolutely right. The photo doesn't tell all, but it at least raises the possibility that it occurred on the shoulder. Where the rider was stopped--in a traffic lane or on the shoulder--would make all the difference in the world.



Kpaul--

Darn, you figured it out. Just don't tell anyone--I've been able to maintain the lawyer hoax for 22 years.



And don't slam your own writing--it's actually very good. You just need to get in touch with your inner self and resolve those emotional issues . . . .