Posted on 11/30/2006 10:29:41 AM PST by absolootezer0
A Suzuki racing bike screaming at 80 mph in a 25-mph zone slammed into Gigliotti on Oct. 4 as she was leaving her job at Long Beach City College, igniting a fireball inside her Ford Escort.
"It is not uncommon to see these kinds of accidents with motorcycles, particularly high-powered super bikes," said Raymond Dennison, the Long Beach detective who investigated the crash. "The whole function is to go as fast as they can."
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Yeah...or one of those hated SUV's!
It's why we in the insurance claims business call them donorcycles.
I was told by someone that the police do not even attempt to catch these high speed bikes because they are so fast they can't do it. That may be hearsay.
I can say that almost every single night after midnight 2 of these bikes flash down the road in back of my house. My son says they are doing over 100 mph, and they are so loud they wake us all up. One day they are going to get in a major accident, I just hope it's not us.
If he was going at 80mph in a 25mph, he was at fault.
but the bias is against the bike, not the rider.
sure, go after the squids that ride like idiots, but leave the bikes alone.
hmmmm, my personal best 152 mph speeding ticket on route 22 in NY. It took a lot to get outta that one....
He was going 80 in a 25 zone. Yes, it was his fault. Even if she was up to speed (25 mph), he would be closing at 65 mph.
I want one.
personally, i avoid both classic roadsters (too heavy) and crotch rockets (too fast). i like my vjmc's.
Geez....I missed your post by 2 minutes.....but you got it right!
Now there's a hobby with a future!
According to a recent report by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, there were 4,553 fatalities in motorcycle accidents in 2005. Those deaths include only the operators and passengers on the bikes. Agency officials could not say how many pedestrians or people in other vehicles died in these crashes, though statisticians are trying to get the data at The Times' request.
That's because it is very rare! The vast majority of motorcycle deaths are due to car drivers not seeing the bike or the rider's inexperience/lack of training.
"I was told by someone that the police do not even attempt to catch these high speed bikes because they are so fast they can't do it. That may be hearsay."
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Wanna hear something funny?
Here in CT if ya get caught on the interstate speeding over 90 mph with a passenger you get charged with "attempted murder".
They pile on a whole bunch of silly charges in an effort to have one stick.
Having said that the roads (highways) here in CT are so crappy and congested....you'd have a hard time escaping from a cop who radio's ahead to have the exits blocked....which is common practice here.
That having been said, I can't imagine that anyone popped for 80 in a 25 should retain their license for long, or that anyone could legitimately defend actions like that as 'OK'. We should enforce the laws we have, IMHO,
It seems to me that the author is saying pretty much the same thing you are:
It would be possible to limit the horsepower of motorcycles, but not politically feasible. After all, operators can take their bikes to off-road tracks and legally test their top speeds. So, the focus should be on stopping extreme speeding on public roads.
As they passed me, I noticed the cops were from the two communities we'd just passed through. They eventually caught 'em.
That's probably lucky for them, if they'd dumped one on the freeway, they'd probably have 50-100 cars and trucks go right over top of them before anybody figured out what happened.
I give bikers plenty of room in front of me because of stuff like that. But some of these guys seem to be competing for the Darwin award.
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