I knew a fellow truck driver that lost his wife in 2011(?) to a motorcycle accident. He was lead bike in left position with friends riding pack style in Iowa when a car crossed the centerline on a curve, just enough to side swipe him, and send him and his wife tumbling, and a couple other bikes behind him off the road trying to avoid them. Of course, being IA, they weren’t wearing helmets.
He lost his wife, and his left leg below the knee. The others were minor injuries I think.
Thats why I never rode in a pack, and if in a pair, the right bike led by at least a couple bike lengths. Never lead with the left bike, (except for making a left turn at an intersection). If it has to move right, there nothing in the way to do so.
As much as six bikes in the space of one tractor-trailer rig? That’s simply dangerous.
True enough. A few years ago a fella drove his vehicle into a pack of bike riders- can’t remeber the details now, cant remeber if he did it deliberatly or not, but it was a major scene.