Posted on 06/16/2020 5:39:51 PM PDT by matt04
A five-year police officer was killed Tuesday afternoon while off-duty and riding her motorcycle with her twin sister in Connecticut.
Angela Santiago, who most recently served as the Chicopee High School police resource officer, died in the crash at about 1 p.m. on Interstate 91 in East Windsor. State Police are investigating the crash, Police Chief William Jebb said.
During a press conference he announced her death and said he was devastated at the loss. He asked for a moment of silence.
“She was young and very energetic and very involved in her community,” he said. “She was everything you would want in a police officer.”
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Details about the crash are limited. Jebb said he understands that for an unknown reason her bike went down on the highway. Her sister, who was riding a separate motorcycle, is not believed to have been injured
Prayers up. Officer Santiago also had 8 years service in the US Army.
Riding a motorcycle on the highway kind of has the same risk as smoking 3 packs a day.
RIP, officer Santiago.
He says from behind his mask.
They aren’t called donorcycles for nothing.
Unlike smoking, your experience, skill level and situational awareness can greatly mitigate the risk.
That’s what they all say. Only part of the risked is mitigated by skills.
Sort of like life.
Physics has a lot to do with it too.
“Unlike smoking, your experience, skill level and situational awareness can greatly mitigate the risk. “
Unlike smoking, tragedy can come in an instant, even to the most skilled.
If you think that a really skilled motorcycle rider who is constantly scanning the road area looking for that car about to pull out in front of, or turn in front of him or change lanes, someone who is totally aware of the entire situation doesn’t mitigate the dangers of riding a motorcycle you don’t know what you’re talkin about.
The stretch between Springfield and East Windsor is a sh*t show, even on the best of days. Rode the Duc through there more than a few times, and it was like an acid trip carnival ride through crazy land very time. And situational awareness won't make you more visible or protect you from a-hole drivers and gang bangers making runs between Springfield and Hartford. It's a stupid place to ride. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
1 out of 6 motor vehicle deaths are motorcyclists. I used to love riding, but then cell phones entered the picture.
That said Rest In Peach and prayers to her family
I know what I’m talking about. I can assure you.
I don’t care if you’re the best rider on the planet, if you’re proceeding through an intersection say at 40mph and someone in the left turn bay on the opposing side of the highway makes a left turn directly in front of you, you’re going to get launched, busted up or possibly not survived it.
Well perhaps you know what you’re talkin about, but you don’t know what I’m talkin about. Go to a bookstore and buy a book called A Twist of the wrist by Keith code. And he will explain to you how you mitigate stupid people because if you’re an alert driver you see the idiots coming. I’m 74 years old and because I had a stroke and lost my vision a few years ago I can no longer ride but I rode from the time I was about 13 or 14 years old until I had my stroke. In 1990 r91 perhaps I read Keith Codes book and until that point I didn’t know what it took to really drive and be alert! so read the book and then come back and tell me you know what you’re talkin about.
You might see them coming for 1/2 a second, but in the scenario I posted, you can be the most alert person on the planet, and have read all the books, and it won’t do zip to save you from impact. There is simply no time to react. It’s why those who know understand intersections are death traps.
But not eliminate it. I lost a cousin in 1969, when he and his buddy were riding up from the Naval Base in San Diego to attend my sister's wedding. His buddy riding behind watched a vehicle suddenly change lanes and knock my cousin under a bus. They say he was killed instantly.
Still grieve his loss.
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