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Motorcycle Hits Pedestrian At 70 MPH, Kills 2
CBS 11 ^ | 05/19/2010

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: GeronL

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.


41 posted on 05/19/2010 10:07:10 AM PDT by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: Little Pig
A while ago I was riding my motorcycle up I-95 (VA) to work. I was in the passing lane, left lane, and going about 75 MPH (the speed of the traffic) in heavy traffic.

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.

42 posted on 05/19/2010 10:07:32 AM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: silverleaf

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.


43 posted on 05/19/2010 10:09:16 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Never trust anyone who points their ass at God while praying.)
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To: reagan_fanatic
I ride, but I don’t do stupid things on it and I always wear a helmet.

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!

44 posted on 05/19/2010 10:09:56 AM PDT by roadcat
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To: reagan_fanatic

Oh man, you are really lucky. God bless.


45 posted on 05/19/2010 10:11:36 AM PDT by silverleaf
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To: Responsibility2nd

RIP.


46 posted on 05/19/2010 10:13:06 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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To: Responsibility2nd

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.


47 posted on 05/19/2010 10:14:56 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (No Romney,No Mark Kirk (Illinois), not now, not ever!)
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To: Responsibility2nd
I don’t blame him (pedestrian) I blame the ass clown on one wheel doing 70 at night.

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.

48 posted on 05/19/2010 10:15:43 AM PDT by New Perspective (My 6 yr old son has Down Syndrome, are you going to kill him too Obama?)
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To: OldMissileer
I traveled the I-66 and I-95 corridors in Northern Va. as a commuter on motorcycle for seven years. It was my sole source of transportation. 80 miles a day. Year round. Near death traffic encounters at least twice a month. I had a full head of hair and steady nerves when I started. You should see me now!
49 posted on 05/19/2010 10:16:10 AM PDT by PowderMonkey (Will work for ammo)
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To: silverleaf
My BIL was probably doing less than 30mph when he died

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.

50 posted on 05/19/2010 10:17:34 AM PDT by New Perspective (My 6 yr old son has Down Syndrome, are you going to kill him too Obama?)
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To: agere_contra

Bears repeating. To any moron who blames the pedestrian.

__________________________________________

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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51 posted on 05/19/2010 10:19:01 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (PALIN/MCCAIN IN 2012 - barf alert? sarc tag? -- can't decide)
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To: RobRoy
Two things: 1. Look both ways. 2. Don’t do wheelees.

Third thing: don't get on motorcycles. They are unbelievably dangerous, and besides, there are much better alternatives to transportation.

52 posted on 05/19/2010 10:26:13 AM PDT by OldPossum
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To: RobRoy
Three Rule of Bikes
1) Never get on a bike without first putting on your brain
- You are going to need it
2) You are Invisible, Trust No One
- No One sees you, No One knows you are there
- If You are going to find a path,
- you are going to have to do it yourself
3) Always Drive within the limits of the bike, road, and your capabilities
- The edge of the envelope has razor blades

If you cannot suppress your obsessions, stay off the bike

Oh Yes, I'm a biker

53 posted on 05/19/2010 10:27:15 AM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: New Perspective; silverleaf
Ass. Her brother-in-law wasn't in this accident.

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?)

54 posted on 05/19/2010 10:28:02 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 482 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: silverleaf

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.


55 posted on 05/19/2010 10:29:11 AM PDT by library user
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To: HangnJudge

>>- 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.


56 posted on 05/19/2010 10:34:49 AM PDT by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: OldMissileer

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.


57 posted on 05/19/2010 10:36:49 AM PDT by Little Pig (Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.)
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To: library user

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.


58 posted on 05/19/2010 10:40:58 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Remember in November. Clean the house on Nov. 2. / Progressive is a PC word for liberal democrat.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

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.


59 posted on 05/19/2010 10:41:51 AM PDT by FTJM
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To: Moonman62
the pedestrian is going to get the blame.

Tombstone will read: "he failed to yield the right of way"

Biker's tombstone will read: "he had the right of way"

60 posted on 05/19/2010 10:42:46 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Peanut butter was just peanut butter until I found Free Republic.........)
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