[nfldgirl]

How fast could the motorcade have been traveling? For the life of me, I can’t imagine they would be going so fast for the officer to have lost control, swerving into an enbankment. How utterly tragic!

[penelopesire]

“How fast could the motorcade have been traveling? For the life of me, I can’t imagine they would be going so fast for the officer to have lost control, swerving into an enbankment. How utterly tragic!”

It does sound strange. I am sure more will come out as time goes by.

[boxerblues]

How fast could the motorcade have been traveling?

Hitting a concrete embankment at any speed will do serious damage to anybody

[Renegade]

Ask Corzine, ( Gov. of People’s Republik of New Jersey ) how fast motorcades go and what happens if you don’t wear a seatbelt .

[StarCMC]

Actually it’s more difficult to ride slowly on those bikes than to ride fast. :-(

Prayers for the officer and his/her family.

[Ramius]

How fast could the motorcade have been traveling? For the life of me, I can’t imagine they would be going so fast for the officer to have lost control, swerving into an enbankment.

The way motorcades are managed means that motorcycle cops end up driving a lot faster than the VIP vehicles, even in town. If you watch one sometime, the lead bikes will run ahead to block intersections before the motorcade gets there, then they hold traffic while it passes, ending up in the back... so then they run up fast past the motorcade again to the front. The bikes will leap-frog like that all the way to the destination.

Then of course at highway speeds they do the same thing blocking on-ramps and overpasses and such. Gotta really punch it to get back ahead in that case.

[Designer]

"How fast could the motorcade have been traveling?"

That's a good question. I don't know, but:

Sometimes the motorcycle officers will race ahead to the intersection so they can dismount if necessary to direct traffic.

Then they must race again to catch up and pass the motorcade to beat the lead auto to the next intersection.

Another pertinent question is; how much experience did this officer have?

Was she/he cut off by the motorcade?

Was the bike inspected recently, and in good repair?

Where was Hillary when all this happened?

Where was Bill?

Where was McCauliffe?

[Churchillspirit]

For the life of me, I can't imagine they would be going so fast for the officer to have lost control......

I wonder about that too.

Prayers for the officer and his family.

[UglyinLA]

Maybe he was too busy watchinbg Hillary and Huma in the back of the limo.