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Posted on 07/27/2008 12:23:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin
RIVERSIDE A 16-year-old Riverside boy doing stunts in a high school parking lot crashed his new 2008 Yamaha R1 motorcycle into a classroom building, and died a short time later, Riverside police said Sunday.
Coroner's officials identified the teen as Austin Lee Allen, 16, of Riverside.
Riverside police Sgt. Dan Reeves said the motorcycle rider was initially believed to be a student at Martin Luther King Jr. High School, where the crash was reported at 7:22 p.m. Saturday.
Witnesses said Allen was riding the Yamaha alone in a parking lot at the school, in the 9300 block of Wood Road in the south Riverside area of Woodcrest, according to police and coroner's accounts of the crash.
Allen was doing a variety of high-speed stunts when he lost control of the Yamaha and crashed into the classroom, Reeves said. Allen was wearing a helmet, but he was pronounced dead at 8:18 p.m. at Riverside Community Hospital, Reeves said.
An accident investigation was expected to continue, and police asked anyone with any information to contact Riverside police Detective Rick Prince at (951) 353-7990.
An R1 is a serious machine. I would never trust one in the hands of a 16 year old or anyone without experience on bikes. Certainty not to perform tricks with. Those things have spectacular power to weight ratios and have more HP than a lot of cars.
16 years old on a brand new R1.
I’ll just bet his parents are rethinking their wise purchase.
RIP young man.
Why, why, WHY would you allow your 16 year old kid to buy a motorcycle that has the power to weight ratio of an F-1 car? I just don’t get it. That thing is probably capable of hitting 180mph.
I feel for the parents and its terrible, but good grief.
OMG! Who in the world would buy their 16 year old a crotch rocket of any kind let alone an R1?
I feel really bad for the family but they obviously have much more money than brains and now must contend with the death of their son.
I had dirt bikes in my early teens but my parents would not let me have a road bike and I did not own one until I joined the Air Force and was on my own.
Even then I respected my machine and did not try stupid tricks.
A 16 YO on a bike as powerful as that doesn’t require alcohol to do something stupid. Sad and tragic, but not necessarily surprising.
Not at all surprising, unfortunately. I read an article no more than a few weeks back where some kid bought one for his 16th birthday, let his older brother ride it, and his older brother lost control and ran into a house and got killed on it about 10 minutes later.
16 year old + R1 = dead
Very tragic.At my HS,from 10th to 12th grade 3 kids/students died in motorcycle accidents.I desperately wanted a dirt bike-my Dad was adamently opposed-”not while your living under my roof!”.I didn’t appreciate it at the time......
These idiots pass me on the freeway all the time doing over a hundred, some standing on thier seats, some doing wheelees, some just weaving in an out real fast. They have wrecks and die almost weekly here. I see it as a self cleaning gene pool.
Yes, No way should a 16 year old be on an R1.
Now, watch for the parents to sue someone for this!
And also watch the school ban motorcycles on the property, so that even responsible kids and adults can’t ride their motorcycle to school anymore.
Buying your 16-year-old a litre bike is a very effective way of obtaining a legal, very late-term abortion.
I ride a ZX-14 but at 42, I have enough sense of my own mortality to be sane on it. Kids have no business whatsoever riding modern supersports.
Idiots.
darwin award
It’s a shame stupidity has to kill another young person.
The stupidity of the kid can be forgiven, as it is to be expected. The stupidity of the parents is unforgivable. I guess they’ll spend the rest of their lives learning that fact.
Lot’s of posts here asking what kind of parents would let their 16 year old own a bike like this. Probably the kind that will release a pathetic statement saying how ‘he died doing something he loved’.
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