The Frederick News-Post reported - according to the Baltimore Sun - that Maryland State police announced that Damascus man died after his motorcycle crashed into the rear of stopped car of a 16 year-old girl in Frederick County.  The car that was rearended was on Route 80 to make a left turn at Chaucer Court in Monrovia on Saturday night.  The motorcyclist was flown to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, where police say he died about four hours later.

This is an awful tragedy.  I don't know anything about the facts of this particular accident beyond what is written above.  But I know that a lot of otherwise great people drive their motorcycles too fast.  Motorcycles are such dangerous instrumentalities.  It is always safer to be in a car but, driven with extreme care, the risk of motorcycle accidents can be substantially decreased by driving with extreme care. 

Yet it seems motorcyclists are actually getting more reckless and the result our accident lawyers in Maryland are seeing is more motorcycle injuries.  While motorcycle registrations actually decreased from 2005 to 2006,  fatal motorcycle accidents actually increased by 5.7 percent. There has also been a rise in fatal motorcycle accidents nationally - and I assume in Maryland - in people over 50 years-old.