- Text
Motorcyclist dies on ride protesting helmet law
(AP)
ONONDAGA, N.Y. - Police say a motorcyclist participating in a protest ride against helmet laws in upstate New York died after he flipped over the bike's handlebars and hit his head on the pavement.
The accident happened Saturday afternoon in the town of Onondaga, in central New York near Syracuse.
State troopers tell The Post-Standard of Syracuse that 55-year-old Philip A. Contos of Parish, N.Y., was driving a 1983 Harley Davidson with a group of bikers who were protesting helmet laws by not wearing helmets.
Troopers say Contos hit his brakes and the motorcycle fishtailed. The bike spun out of control, and Contos toppled over the handlebars.
He was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Troopers say Contos would have likely survived if he had been wearing a helmet.
- Mexico gangs threaten to behead DEA agents
- Motorcyclist dies on ride protesting helmet law
- Power out as Phoenix temps hit record 118
- Thousands rally against Ga. immigration law
- Exxon's Yellowstone oil spill prompts evacuations
- Closing arguments at Casey Anthony trial
- Exxon's Yellowstone oil spill: Up to 1K barrels
- Exxon tries to downplay Yellowstone oil spill
- DA: Strauss-Kahn accuser cleaned after encounter
- Fireworks banned throughout South for July 4th
- At least 1 American dead in Mexico ship capsize
- Casey Anthony weeps as prosecutor calls her a liar
- "Murky" water hid dead body in pool for 2 days
- Casey Anthony cries during closing arguments
- Arrest made in unsolved 1957 murder of little girl
- Los Alamos fire nears sacred Indian grounds
- Online campaign aids ex-cheerleader's legal fees
- Private businesses suffering from Minn. shutdown
- Hacking on Fox News Twitter reports Obama's death
- Yellowstone oil pipeline was cited for safety
- Google temporarily disables 'Realtime' search
on Facebook
- Motorcyclist dies on ride protesting helmet law
- Hacked Fox News tweets claim Obama dead
- Bill Clinton to Obama: Don't blink
- 60 Minutes, 07.03.11
- Elderly Japanese volunteer for nuke cleanup
on CBS News