Posted on 01/22/2022 4:34:00 PM PST by LibWhacker
How far did he fly I wonder?
Other than his shoes coming off, it looks like his riding gear held up pretty good.
He should have had boots on.
You can’t even see where he lands in the video. several hundred feet could be a football field length.
I didn’t notice his pants came off. Must have hooked them going over the handlebars.
See my post 33. The video is on Twitter. But i would guess less than 200 feet.
I’m just glad he didn’t get someone else killed, even though that poor person he hit will be traumatized for a long time by that. God help whoever that is. I don’t feel much for the dead guy, I admit. He surrendered any consideration when he drove like that.
Instant karma.š¤
I was driving east on the Overseas Hwy in the Florida Keys years ago and a bike with two guys on it came blowing past us. Sure enough, just down the road a car pulled out in front of the bike and the bike hit it broadside. They were maybe 300 yards ahead of us I saw them get launchedā¦ the guy on the back ended up a long ways down the road but the driver simply vanished. This was before cell phones so I knocked on a door nearby and before I had ran back to the guy on the road, the ambulance and police were there. The fellow on the road was unconscious and in bad shape and everybody was busy with him but I grabbed a cop and told him āthere were two on the bikeāā¦ couldnāt get their attention so I decided Iād have to hunt for the guy myself. Took me about 10 minutes but he had been launched into a dense jungle and was up against a small tree. He had all kinds of broken bones and wounds that defy description but he was conscious and after seeing that he wasnāt going to bleed to death, I left him and finally was able to get the attention of some additional medical folks that had arrived. An hour later, we had him on a stretcher pulling him out of there.
I have no doubt the second guy survivedā¦ not sure about the guy on the road.
Happens all the time. There are many cases where a motorcycles and the rider violently broadside cars, impacting them with such force it results in fatalities to the occupants of the cars, totally the cars as well. Some cases of head on collisions, the MC rider will enter the vehicle through the windshield, and exit the rear window, killing the occupants of the car.
Does the owner of the motorcycle get his bike back? Would he have to bring his own basket?
Well,actually he did.HARD!š¤
Yah beat me to it.š
Iāll bet it was fun before the collision.
He landed head first.
—”How can that be? He was wearing a helmet.”
He needed an aid bag...
Full credit goes to my airbag for keeping me injury-free.
Three weeks ago today, I got hit by a car while testing a bike for a future comparison story. While on a two-lane canyon road, I was approaching a left-hand bend. In the opposing lane the car driver misjudged his speed for the right turn, crossed over the double-yellow lines, and nailed me. Airborne I went ā over the hood of the car, doing my best Superman impression.
https://www.motorcycle.com/editorial-2/why-ill-never-ride-without-a-motorcycle-airbag-again.html
Well he did steal the bike....doubt it was his first theft. Sometimes these criminals inadvertently take themselves out and saves us from further tolerating them in society....thus people don’t die because of them.
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