It was a bad year for Motorcycle deaths in Nevada. In particular, it is a bad year for this fatal bike crashes in the Las Vegas area (Clark County specifically). This is of course 2016, the most recent full year and of course now we are starting to see the statistical information coming out about crashes, tickets, everything road and traffic related. And the numbers are bad. There was more than a half again as many people killed on motorcycles in 2016 as there were in 2015. And we here at Benson & Bingham Attorneys as Law certainly felt like this was a possibility as we have certainly been seeing and helping victims of motorcycle accidents in the Las Vegas area more this year, but we don’t keep these kind of records. That is the job of the Nevada Department of Public Safety, apparently, since that is where this article on the rising death toll of motorcycles in Clark County, Nevada got the numbers. Benson & Bingham are used to helping people hurt or the family of people killed riding a motorcycle in Nevada. We help by taking legal details and financial worry off of our clients minds – they have enough to deal with without having to deal with that. Contact us today for a free consultation.

Why is this rise occurring? We’ll pick it up a bit from the article itself, and some theorizing by different staff in this area:

“He said likely causes include drug and alcohol impairment and an increase in aggressive driving.

“Impaired riding remains the number one cause of motorcyclist fatalities,” he said in an email. “The incidence of drugs, or a combination of drugs and alcohol, has been rising steadily in Clark (County), and statewide, since 2013.”

The 2016 information regarding DUIs is preliminary until summer, when the department finalizes its data, fatality analyst Julie Gallagher with the Department of Public Safety said

In 2015, 43 motorcyclists and scooter drivers died in Clark County. Of those, data show, 65 percent were impaired by alcohol, drugs or both.

Motorcycle fatalities may be harder to control from a public safety standpoint because motorcycles themselves present unique dangers, Vander Aa said.”