Posted on 05/19/2010 9:33:31 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Dallas police say a traffic accident Tuesday night involving a pedestrian and a motorcycle rider doing a wheelie at 70 MPH left both men dead.
Police on Wednesday identified the fatalities as 45-year-old Paul Bellard and 38-year-old Lashon Hudson.
The crash happened in the 6200 block of Bonnie View Lane.
Sr. Cpl. Kevin Janse says witnesses reported that at about 10:30 Tuesday night Bellard was attempting cross the street, but did not use the crosswalk. Janse says Bellard failed to yield right of way to Hudson's motorcycle and was hit.
Janse says the motorcyle had "the front tire off the ground" when the wreck happened. Police on the scene of the wreck estimated Hudson was going 70 MPH in a 35 MPH zone.
After the impact, Hudson lost control of the motorcycle, crossed the median twice, hit a speed limit sign and then slid underneath a bus which was stopped at a stop sign.
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To be fair to the pedestrian, if you are crossing the street in a 35 zone and someone is coming up at 70, you would have to be hyper conscientious about looking and carefully calculating speed to not get hit.
With my street crossing MO, I’d have died too.
I notice a Crotch Rocket in the far right travel lane fly through the traffic doing a wheelie. He never put the front wheel down for over the mile I saw him speed up the highway and disappear over a rise in the road.
Since I was driving over 30 miles up 95 I never did see him splattered across the highway like I was expecting.
I actually had a very similar experience a few years back on my bike. I was riding in a residential area (speed limit 30mph) when I noticed a man in a car waiting to go across. He looked right at me, then promptly pulled right out in front of me.
I remember slamming on both brakes and damn near dumping the bike. I missed his left front fender by about two feet.
And what does he do? He looks at me like ‘where did YOU come from??’
Inattentive drivers are a biker’s worst enemy.
I did only one stupid thing when I was young. I borrowed a friend's big high-powered motorcycle and took it out on a freeway. At 65 MPH I gunned the engine RPM's and the bike took off - it popped a wheelie, and the handlebar grips pulled away from my hands. It was doing over 80 as I was frantically trying to reach the handlebar and not fall off. Extremely lucky I didn't splatter all over the freeway!
Oh man, you are really lucky. God bless.
RIP.
On 2 separate occasions I’ve come close to wiping out motorcycle drivers, on both occasions they were coming out of the setting sun on a road I was about to pull onto.
I try to be careful but sometimes they are very hard to see.
Several years back my 83 year old uncle was killed in the same manner, a garbage truck came out of a side street and didn’t see him. Unk used to ride that Harley regularly between his home in Florida and his home in Indiana. Yep, 83.
I agree with you. Before you step off the curb you look both ways however if you can not see a motorcycle at night because his headlight is pointing UP due to a wheelie while traveling TWICE the legal speed limit then liability is far less for the pedestrian.
If you want to stunt then do it in an area when you are not going to hurt innocent victims, friggen idiots.
Wow, pretty neat, you can do accident reconstruction over the internet without even seeing one photo.
My money are on the professional ON the scene.
Bears repeating. To any moron who blames the pedestrian.
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Remember how fast 70mph is.
Chances are this guy was in the middle of the street before the noise from this invisible blind lunatic could be registered.
Lacking radar or night-vision goggles, the poor pedestrian probably only had the chance to think “what the hell is that noise” before being mown down.
36 posted on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 12:04:25 PM by agere_contra
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Third thing: don't get on motorcycles. They are unbelievably dangerous, and besides, there are much better alternatives to transportation.
If you cannot suppress your obsessions, stay off the bike
Oh Yes, I'm a biker
Do you find it impossible to believe that she might have gotten the actual details of his fatal crash from the actual accident report, prepared by actual on-the-scene professional investigators?
(Silverleaf, you are a she aren't you?)
I know an ER doc who said he loves it when bikers crash without wearing helmets and die. “Our collective IQ as a nation goes up,” he said.
>>- The edge of the envelope has razor blades<<
My favorite line. :)
Yeah, I’m a biker too. The best advice I ever got before I bought my bike was to assume you are invisible. It literally saved my life at least three times.
I have to be honest, I’ve always wished I had that level of control on a bike. Even though I’d never use it, just knowing how to handle a bike that well would, I believe, be beneficial to accident avoidance. That said, riding a wheelie in heavy traffic is just asking for trouble.
The defensive driving instructor calls helmets brain buckets and motorcycles crotch rockets. Back in the 80s when we lived in NW Austin, there was a motorcycle rider who came down our street.
Our house was about 1/4 mile from the nearest street to the west. The responders said he was probably doing over 90 MPH when he lost control. Hios helmet hit the rear bumper of a car. DRT.
It’s definitely crazy to do that on the Interstate, but I have to admit it is pretty cool to get passed in your car by someone doing a wheelie.
Tombstone will read: "he failed to yield the right of way"
Biker's tombstone will read: "he had the right of way"
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