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Crotch Rocket Speeding 188 MPH Still Under the Radar of Tort Reformers and the U.S. Chamber

By Steve Lombardi

We've got another high-speed chase involving a motorcycle, or crotch rocket as they are famously called. Do you remember this post? It described a news article about a Yamaha YZF-R1 motorcycle being clocked in the Cedar Rapids area at over 164 mph. Read the story if you need to but I've given you the gist of the idea.

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Today we have another one; in this one a 36-year-old was spotted by troopers in I-29 near Missouri Valley and then on I-480 and then on I-80 in Omaha. The biker was clocked at 188 mph.

So what is my point? We talk about tort reform and we hear there are too many lawsuits but we don't hear about corporate responsibility. Why sell a street bike that can't legally drive this fast and that endangers other drivers and pedestrians?

• Why talk about individual responsibility without coupling it with corporate responsibility?
• If the corporation didn't see a street bike that could drive 200 M.P.H. drivers wouldn't be able to endanger people's lives.
• So why take away the innocent citizens right to receive adequate compensation or to bring a claim when they do?
• And where is the American Tort Reform Association, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and their public salesmen for corporate America with reprimanding the manufacturing industry? Why do these organizations selectively pick on the injured? I guess you've have to ask them.

Tort reforms that go after the innocent driver by making it tougher to collect or to sue just make it easier for the guy driving the street bike almost 200 mph.

It all makes little sense to me.

Originally posted at InjuryBoard by Steve Lombardi

Full post as published by Des Moines Personal Injury Lawyer on August 11, 2009 (boomark / email).