ride safe

[NesquikNinja]

Just today, a friend was hit by a drunk driver who fled, a local wiped out, and a friend of a friend died. 3 motorcycle incidents in one day. I'll elaborate tomorrow. Ride safe out their guys.

[Kijona]

[NesquikNinja]

Alright, incident number 1

Good friend of mine, Preston, weve been friends for going on 7 years. He just got a bike a few weeks ago.  Him and another friend of 13 years, Jon, were headed to Jons house early Sunday morning around 2:30 am. Preston should not have been riding at this time being so new, and hes had a talking to from everyone that cares...but he definitely didnt deserve what happened.

Driving down the road, doing 35ish, a car pulls out and clips the back end of his bike hard enough to bend the shock, frame, and rip the bumper off the car- the car promptly gassed it and sped off.  The man who called the police gave them a bs discription of a car and said he had never seen it.  Luckily, other witnesses gave them an accurate discription and told them the man was the drivers boyfriend. The car was towed from the boyfriends home.

Preston made it out alright, but his bike is TRASHED.  The bars went through the tank, hole in the block...too much to even list.  The driver turned herself in, and is facing felony hit and run charges I believe. That should make her boyfriend accesssory to a felony.  They didnt catch her soon enough to test if she was drunk, which sucks.  I wish the worst to her, she is the lowest of the low.

Next, the minor incident of the three.  A man was cut off in broad daylight and laid down his bike. Very slow...5-10mph but NO ONE on the busy road stopped to help as he pushed his bike from the center lane and off in a parking lot.  The car that cut him off again sped off.

And lastly...the worst of all.  A van backing out onto a two lane highway was struck by a motorcyclist who was killed.  I believe the passenger is amazingly still alive.  Here is the picture of the bike and tribute video to the rider.  I never met the guy, and from what I understand that is a damn shame.  Really cool fellow...too young for this.

Ride safe guys.

http://youtu.be/NX3oy0EtR5s

[fraze11]

Very sorry to hear that.

It's been a rough season so for riders in my part of the world.  There have been close to a dozen rider deaths since March in my surrounding area, most of them collissions with other vehicles (some rider error some not). 

This one just happened the other day not far from where I live;

http://www.brantnews.com/news/motorcycle-crash-sends-man-to-hospital/

[SAFE-T]

I pretty much stopped riding in the city a few years ago

[SAFE-T]

You should see the traffic fatalities in a place like Asia or India where people get killed off like bugs on your windshield

[Formori]

They do say abstinence is the safest 

But seriously, I've seen too many accidents like this lately around, and I know that a lot of them were rider error (squids on highway doing 200kph), but a lot of them were just plain idiotic cagers that shouldn't have a license!

Keep your head on a swivel and stay safe!

[jdoorn14]

This one happened near me just this weekend.  http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/local...ar-44th-street  This ranks near the top of my list of worst-case scenarios.

I have seen more moronic cagers over the last week than I think I have ever seen before. (Not to mention a few moronic riders...like the one this morning who was going 65mph in a 70mph--in the fast lane, where most traffic cruises at ~75mph. Then he changed lanes without turning his head, forcing the cage in his blind spot to slam on his brakes and swerve into the lane he just vacated. Luckily I was far enough back to only be a witness.) 

If you can't spot the hazard on the road, it's most likely you.