The Salt Lake Tribune reports that a motorcycle was part of a four vehicle crash when he was struck hard from behind while stopped at a light.  Apparently there was a chain reaction of a rear-end collision and the motorcycle rider got the worst of it when he was propelled into the vehicle in front of him causing him to crash to the ground.  The motorcycle rider was transported to Intermountain Medical Center for treatment of what was described as minor to moderate injuries.

We often handle crashes where multiple vehicles are involved int he crash and not surprisingly the motorcycle rider often is the person most injured.  When there are other injuries involved sometimes liability is often difficult to allocate.  Take this crash for example and assume all of the vehicles were stopped at a stop light and the vehicle causing the crash ploughed into the back of a car that propelled it into the motorcycle that caused the motorcycle to crash into a truck.  The insurer for the moving vehicle will try to allocate fault to the stopped car claiming that the stopped vehicle was stopped too close to the motorcycle.  The may claim that the stopped car had no brake lights - it is sometimes amazing what they come up with.  They may claim that the motorcycle was stopped too close to the truck in front of him.  This is all claimed in a ploy to decrease the amount of money paid by the insurance company of the car that really caused the crash. It is seldom that an insurance company will not try to allocate blame to others in often the most simple crash.

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