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Posted on 07/16/2009 8:24:22 AM PDT by Federalist Patriot
Here is raw video from an Oregon State Police Dashcam showing a motorcyclist taking a fall on the highway. You see the motorcycle sliding down the highway with the rider tumbling across the pavement. He then gets up, stunned, and is helped by an officer.
The rider was wearing a helmet. (Watch Video)
(Excerpt) Read more at freedomslighthouse.com ...
In a commensurately severe car crash, your skull is going to be cracked just as bad.
That's why race car drivers wear -helmets-.
I think all car drivers should be required to wear helmets and 3-point seat belts because massive head and chest injuries are the leading causes of car crash fatalities, just like motorcycles.
Anecdotally speaking, my skull was massively injured by a horse while I was merely standing *still* beside of him.
My dad's life was spared during a horrendous car crash because he was *not* wearing a seat belt when the speeding psycho bitch in the other car actually went airborne and landed on top of his truck, crushing it.
If he'd been strapped in and hadn't fallen sideways into the passenger seat, he'd be dead.
The state trooper who flew him to hospital told us that.
When it's your time, it's your time, no matter *what* you do....or don't do.
I’ve witnessed plenty of auto TCs — more than motorcycles and some quite nasty.
And I get to see reports and photos for auto TCs also. Death, blunt force trauma, limbs and heads off, crush injuries, paralysis and even immolation can all happen to you in your car.
You are right — people are not nearly as safe in their autos as they think they are. Most people drive way too fast and are inattentive.
And I know there are FReepers who chafe at the idea of mandatory seatbelt laws. But unbelted drivers (and passengers) are as foolish as anyone who takes to the streets on two wheels. Getting ejected is a bad thing. Getting partially ejected is a bad thing.
Of course even careful drivers are taken from this world in an instant by something as out of their control as debris kicked over the median barrier from traffic going the other way.
I’ve witnessed plenty of auto TCs — more than motorcycles and some quite nasty.
And I get to see reports and photos for auto TCs also. Death, blunt force trauma, limbs and heads off, crush injuries, paralysis and even immolation can all happen to you in your car.
You are right — people are not nearly as safe in their autos as they think they are. Most people drive way too fast and are inattentive.
And I know there are FReepers who chafe at the idea of mandatory seatbelt laws. But unbelted drivers (and passengers) are as foolish as anyone who takes to the streets on two wheels. Getting ejected is a bad thing. Getting partially ejected is a bad thing.
Of course even careful drivers are taken from this world in an instant by something as out of their control as debris kicked over the median barrier from traffic going the other way.
Then I’m really going to disappoint you by telling you I always wear a helmet and leathers, ride a trike, always watch EVERYTHING going on around me at *least* a half mile ahead and won’t drive past the end of my lane without my seat belt on and have done so since I was 15, *many* years before my state made it mandatory.
[I also wouldn’t budge an inch until any/all passengers were strapped in as well]
Just as my driver’s ed manual instructed me, I decrease my speed by 5-10 mph after dark and during inclement weather.
I am an obnoxiously attentive and careful driver.
After 33 years of driving and nary even a paint chip, I must be doing something right.
1) Right before the spill, a car sped by the officer's cruiser about 70.
2) The officer was already out of his car when both the car and bike went by. This is obvious as the there was absolutley zero movement from egressing the car - the video was perfectly still.
3) The few words that were not edited out of the recording indicate that the biker was surprised by something - "Christ!....I look up and....."
4) The road forward of the officer's car is perfectly straight.
The officer was likely radaring vehicles. The car just in front of the bike may have just clipped the bike while passing or slammed on the brakes when he saw the officer/radar. When drivers slam on the brakes, each vehicle behind them has a progressively shorter time to react.
If there was a bend in the road or other obstruction that the officer was hiding behind, motorists could be expected to react by slamming on their brakes in their surprise.
If the biker doesn't realize that 95% of braking is by the front wheel, he won't recognize that slamming on the rear brake while the rear wheel is barely touching the ground due to the weight bias redistribution will result in the rear swinging out until the forks hit the stops, resulting in a split second splatt.
I'm glad to see the fellow made out ok, and dismayed that FR has so many sanctimonious pricks amongst us.
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WOW! And what the heck was the video in the ping from?
Did he mean to do that?
Your vid looks he is riding a trebuchet. freaky.
This must be your first time on biker thread. (?)
I swear, they crawl out of the woodwork just for the sole purpose of condemning, pontificating and morbidly gloating.
I find that a bit aberrant, myself.
I can assure you they do sometimes fall down, and can roll a really long way when crashed at speed!
Not the ones *we* build....:)
I’m sorry for your loss.
Good, because this is way too nice to wreck!
Yup, that's me.....just plain stupid. Over 200K lifetime miles by motorcycle, MSF certifications up the ying-yang and plenty of experience with idiots in cars and trucks that would just as soon see me dead than to spill some of that expensive latte' in their laps as that yack on their cell-phones. Must be my stupidity that's brought me this far.
I suppose you would say the same about our fighting forces that put themselves in harms way too. After all, that's a much more trauma-rich environment and we have a 100% volunteer force. Man, that must really boil your blood. What do you consider those folks? Stupid, or something worse?
I'll concede to you one thing - you have a masterful way of lumping 3.5 million people into one neat-little group that shows off your ignorance.
Maybe you should just wrap yourself in styrofoam and hide under the bed.
Oh, and I'm sorry if I sound a bit harsh.
No, your answer is irrelevant to my point. You said that the number of car accidents outstrips the number of motorcycle accidents. I mentioned that is because of the overwhelming number of cars on the road. I never said anything about the severity of either type of accident in determining survivability.
That sounds sensible until you are in the accident. Three accidents in as many years, I learned to get out of the road.
First one, I hit a spot of oil and water. Dropped the bike int he middle of the intersection. I laid there as a semi barred odown on me. I remember saying, “OK, Lord, I am ready to come home.” He buzzed by me. A van stopped and the driver got me up and helped me get my bike off the road.
The second, I am not sure what happened. At a Target Store parking lot. I think I hit a pothole then sand. The spill bruised my knee real bad and broke my foot. After the EMT checked me out, I rode the bike home and let it set for two weeks as I recovered.
The third one, a driver switched into my lane, knocking me to the ground as my bike did cartwheels into oncoming traffic. I got up with the other knee bruised.
Finally, outside a BMW dealer, an old lady slowly backed over my bike...with me on it, blasting my horn. The BMW workers denied seeing anything despite being the ones telling her to back up.
I should have sued. She was indignant and refused to accept responsibility. She broke the footpeg, front turn indicator, and the tail light. Fortunately, I leapt off the bike and suffered no damage.
Her car suffered about $1500 damage from metal bike parts puncturing her BMW’s body.
In all of these, my leather jacket, gloves, boots, and helmet kept me out of the hospital.
There was a truck (shadow of delivery truck) running perpendicular (right to left in the vid) to the main road at a rate that it would have crossed into traffic.
I don't remember the last one I saw on FR, but have a few thousand posts on numerous motorcycle websites - it was through one of them that I 1st heard of FreeRepublic.
Most of 'em were dirt bike sites, but I haven't spent much time on them lately. Degenerative Disk Disease has caught up with me, so I'm not currently riding offroad, and will probably sell my dirt bikes.
I went back to street riding a couple years ago, when I moved to the foothills of the Cascade mountain range, near the Canadian border in WA state.
It's a fine spot for a "seasoned" sportbike rider and his Ducati 1098s to semi-retire in.
So you ride a Trike. I knew a fellow down in Grants Pass, Oregon, a grizzled old biker who rode his panhead powered trike 12 months out've the year, even if he had to take a propane torch to warm up the oil. He could turn that thing much faster than should've been possible.
One day his ol' lady washed & polished his trike to surprise him, and surprised he was indeed when he whipped around the 1st turn, and came most of the way off the freshly Armor All'd seat. He barely hung on, and she hid for awhile, lol.
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