Horrific moment Malibu motorcyclist is struck by flying truck in three-vehicle fatal crash: Driver of speeding stolen SUV dies in fiery collision

Daily Mail ^ | 27 November 2022 | SOPHIE MANN

[artichokegrower]

A petrifying video from a motorcyclist stopped at a traffic light in Malibu, California showed footage of a pick-up truck flying into him after being slammed into by a black SUV.

The horrifying crash took place on November 14 and was a fatal incident for the driver of the black 2017 Lexus NC - a stolen car, according to the Los Angeles County police.

In the clip, the unidentified motorcyclist, who survived the crash, calmly waits to make a left turn off of the busy Pacific Coast Highway in southern California

[Bikkuri]

I had a thick leather jacket (before I got the full body protective gear), and I remember at around 90mph and above, grasshoppers felt like bricks 😣. Don't want to imagine what they would have felt like without the heavy leather on..

[Tijeras_Slim]

I wore an Aerostitch Roadcrafter suit. Pricey but fantastic. My co-workers called me “Right Stuff” because I looked like an astronaut walking across the parking lot with my helmet under my arm.

I eventually quit riding when I felt like the bike was getting ahead of me (Ducati Monster). Bought a Honda S2000, about the same amount of fun but a lot more comfy.

[Fai Mao]

I had hornet hit, and sting me several on the left eye while commuting by bicycle in Hong Hong while on a dedicated bicycle road. Different vehicle but similar issue. I looked like I had lost a fight.

[Verginius Rufus]

Life is not being fair to the owner of the Lexus SUV. Will the insurance company find a loophole to avoid reimbursing him or her for the cost of the destroyed vehicle?

[Bikkuri]

Ouch!
Eye damaged?

[Eccl 10:2]

“I know you can see the truck bed, but that ladder scares me the most.”

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Not the former?

(too soon?)

[Wilhelm Tell]

I’m glad you enjoyed your years with motorcycles and had a safe time. My father had a motorcycle he almost never used and a few times he let me ride it on a rural road. It was quite an experience to learn the rudiments of it but I quickly realized that riding it on streets would be something I probably could not do well. So in my case it was a few pleasant outings in a safe environment and I checked it off my list. It did help me be a safer driver just briefly seeing things from a motorcycle seat and knowing it isn’t easy.

[vespa300]

Thank you! And you too.

[vespa300]

Yes, they are very dangerous on the street. I got tired of having to concentrate all the time, always on the look out, always on the defense. Off road is probably the best way to go...for just fun. Thank You.

[peggybac]

PCH is so fricking dangerous. People drive crazy at all hours of the day/night, though it is a beautiful drive early Sunday mornings. Getting out of Gladstones4Fish was often quite scary.

[vespa300]

Wow...hope you weren’t seriously hurt. No surprise on the cell phone. When riding I noticed half the people I passed were looking at their phones. thanks.

[ConservativeMind]

When I was a kid, I rode with my father one time on his 700 cc engine motorcycle. We were only a 1/4 mile away from the house and he either tried to do a wheelie or, as he instead claimed, “hit a rock,” and I fell off. He fell off, too, but ripped his knee cap somewhat badly.

I did eventually get very proficient as a teen on a motorbike, but always preferred cars, due to safety.

Imagine putting either 3-point seatbelts or airbags on a cycle!

[telescope115]

I always give motorbike riders more space in front of me. I surely don’t want to hit one of you guys for ANY reason.

One of my wife’s cousins was killed when he wiped out on his bike, and I almost lost one of my cousins when another biker slammed into him.
And a very good friend of mine, a fellow conservative, wiped out on his over 30 years ago, and today he can hardly walk because he injured his back when it happened.

[Keyhopper]

Hit a pigeon once, ran my bell

[VTenigma]

That and the big screen TV on the dashboard.

[Zuriel]

A deer almost got me back in 97, while coming home from work in NW IL. That was the end of night riding for me. In 03 a 19 yr old offered me a few bucks more than my bike was worth, so I let it go. I wasn’t farming anymore, and it was my also my quick way to check the cow herd and mend fence. It wasn’t missed that much, so I never bought another.

6 yrs in Tennessee, and seeing idiots crossing the center line on all these twisty roads, and 3 deer strikes with the suv, has me convinced to stick with the cage night or day.

[VTenigma]

Riding through the orchards in the San Joaquin during pollinating season was always fun. At least a hundred honey bee strikes an one our two in your helmet for good measure.

[Bikkuri]

Lol.. I miss the good ol’ days :D

[matthew fuller]

I will never forget catching a red wasp in my mouth when riding my bicycle when I was a kid. I was spitting and sputtering for a while, but I was not stung.

[central_va]

We need more SUV control. SUV violence is worse than gun violence.