Motorcycle Accident

Motorcycles are part of daily traffic on Mission Street, South Van Ness, and US 101. Vehicle Code section 27803 requires a rider and passenger to wear a helmet that meets the statutory standard and is actually fastened as the section defines wearing one. section 21658.1 defines lane splitting as riding a two-wheeled motorcycle between lines of stopped or moving cars in one lane. The definition does not write a speed or clearance number into the statute.

Those rules can be evidence on a share of fault. They are not, by themselves, enough to end a civil claim, and they do not pause section 335.1. If the injured person is still a minor, section 352 can pause some civil clocks, except that a Government Claims Act notice is not paused by that section.

The longer walkthrough is the motorcycle guide. Keep the helmet, request the official crash paperwork, and confirm the courthouse for the county of the collision.