Motorcycle wrecks on 281 and 1604

After a motorcycle wreck on US 281 or Loop 1604, get medical care and calendar the two-year window in 16.003. Transportation Code 661.003 is the traffic rule on protective headgear, with a narrow exception for some riders who are at least 21. That chapter is a traffic-offense statute. It does not, in the official text, write a separate civil rule about how a jury must treat the absence of headgear. Fault in a civil case still has to be analyzed under Chapter 33.

The motorcycle guide on this site explains those rules. Get the crash report from the department named on the officer’s card, and use the official TxDOT purchase path when that path applies. A later Bexar County case is often filed with the District Clerk at the Paul Elizondo Tower.