Posted on 03/16/2022 10:01:07 PM PDT by BraveMan
DAYTONA BEACH, Florida — A motorcyclist caught on a drawbridge as it began to rise jumped off his bike just before reaching the edge, leaving the bike dangling over the water.
Mark Hagen, 50, of Metter, Georgia, tells police he was cleaning water from the face shield of his helmet during a rain shower as he approached the Main Street drawbridge last weekend and did not see the lowered gates and flashing red lights indicating the bridge was about to go up, according to the News-Journal.
Video of the incident shows the motorcycle smash through a lowered gate. Hagen then leaps from the bike onto the bridge deck as the bridge rises. The bike, which was hauling a small trailer, continues on and gets caught on the edge of the bridge.
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You Gold Wing guys are cray cray . . .
It’s good that the rider was OK but good heavens, man, let’s keep our priorities straight - what about the bike?
What about warning signals?
Right! Where is the video of the bridge closing again?
BS he didn’t see it. If he didn’t, he shouldn’t be riding. He thought he could make it. Yeah. I ride bikes, a lot. For decades.
Car accident straight out of Dukes of Hazzard…
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/car-accident-straight-out-of-dukes-of-hazzard/
The video on the link is well worth watching. A serious WTF moment . . .
Wouldn’t he have felt a G-force too from the increasing incline?
I agree he knew. He just thought he could make it.
“Is it me? Or is the world ... rising?”
Kinda looks like he broke right through the guard rails ignoring the red flashing lights and didn’t notice that the drawbridge was in the process of raising as he was driving over it.
He thought he was having an "Inception" flashback!
Regards,
agreed, bones will heal....
IDK that he was ignoring...more that the weight and rain ..compiled by the grating ..I suspect he thought he couldn’t stop safely so decided to power through it.
He drove right by them.
Every draw bridge I drove across as many bells, whistles lights.
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A serious case of driving with head where the lights do not shine.
Not sure what he was thinking. You can run drawbridge red lights anytime, but once the gates go down you stop. After a few seconds, the bridge starts to operate.
What isn’t shown in the video is how long the gates were down before he basically crashed them. He either didn’t see them (which makes no sense because he ended up straddling the 2 lanes), or he thought he could still beat the bridge w/out clipping a gate. Either way, he acted stupidly.
Just another idiot biker who pushed the envelope
Whatever the root cause, you have to drive for the weather conditions. It’s a stretch of my imagination to think that he couldn’t stop in time to avoid plowing through the crossing gate that was lit by red flashing lights. And he didn’t stop until he got to the very edge of the drawbridge. Some heavy rain on the windshield doesn’t quite explain it to me. Meanwhile, the car behind him was able to stop just fine.
Exactly!
...agreed, serious cranial disconnect going on there.
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