Motorcyclist dies in apparent road-rage crash (Darwin Award ?)

A motorcyclist was killed Monday in a collision with a motor home on Highway 101’s Conejo Grade after he slowed rapidly in front of the recreational vehicle in an apparent road-rage incident, authorities said.

The motorcyclist, a 57-year-old Ventura man, was killed about 12:22 p.m. on southbound Highway 101 near Camarillo Springs Road when he collided with a roughly 30-foot motor home driven by Michael Antoine, 68, of Thousand Oaks, said Officer Terry Uhrich of the California Highway Patrol’s Moorpark office.

The motorcyclist and Antoine were both traveling about 55 mph when the collision occurred in the right lane, authorities said. Witnesses and Antoine later told authorities that the motorcyclist had made obscene hand gestures, pulled in front of the motor home, then slowed down dramatically, Uhrich said.

Antoine did not have time to react and struck the back of the low-slung custom motorcycle, causing it to become stuck under the front of the RV, authorities said. The motorcyclist was thrown from the bike, run over by the motor home and dragged underneath for about 75 feet, Uhrich said. Unable to steer, Antoine continued about 500 feet and hit the center divider, Uhrich said.

You are one ignorant individual if ya think you can avoid a collision with a vehicle that blows a red light, or left turn in directly in front of your direction of travel at an intersection, once *you* have reached the limit line.

Are you so damn stupid or ignorant ya don't realize there is no time to react?

It's physically impossible... The limit line is the freaking first line reached at a crosswalk, or where the two curb lines intersect.

The grave yards are full of highly skilled, very experienced bike riders, that were killed in intersections, that never had time to blink, let alone brake or maneuver.

Here is an example of your ludicrous comments below.

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You'd have as much "luck" avoiding a bullet fired point blank.

Point blank range is simply the range a bullet can travel and not deviate from some predetermined, arbitrary vertical distance.

LOL!!

Ya see what I mean? Look at your above response about the bullet. Instead of allowing that concept or scenario to sink into your thick skull, you instead make an asinine, juvenile comment, in a really weak attempt to impress someone.

Didn't work slick.

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