On June 8, 1991, Christopher Allen Looper was riding his 1978 Harley Davidson in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina when an Air Force bus collided with him. The bus entered his lane of travel near the intersection of South Ocean Boulevard and Springmaid Pier Road. He was struck by a twenty-eight passenger blue Air Force bus.

This case was tried in front of United States Federal District Judge C. Weston Houck of Charleston in late December, 1994. The testimony in court centered around the fact that the bus was being driven by an Air National Guardsman and first time visitor to Myrtle Beach. He and his associates had been consuming Hot Wings and beer.

Looper suffered extensive physical injuries as a result of the accident. He sustained fractures of his collar bone, the right elbow with a loss of two centimeters of bone, the left wrist and thumb, a fracture of his little finger, his right thigh, right heel and fractures of the toes to his right foot. He also suffered a fracture of his pubic bone, his sacrum, and his pelvis. In addition to the many fractures, Looper suffered a serious contusion of the kidney, multiple abrasions, and burns to approximately 3 percent of his body resulting in permanent scarring and disfigurement. Accordingly, the court ordered damages be paid by the government to Mr. Looper in the amount of $2,744,568.82.

Looper was represented in this case by Aid to Injured Motorcyclists attorney E. John Daugs. Mr. Daugs is the A.I.M. attorney for South Carolina, and has been since the inception of the Aid to Injured Motorcyclists program.