Just yesterday I was on I70 eastbound and a bronze Jeep was hauling ass and passing heavy Sunday going-back-home traffic every which way but loose.
About 7 miles from the time he passed me on the right, I came around a curve, only to have to slam on my brakes because there was the bronze Jeep, halfway in the middle of the fast lane, in front of the small car containing a mom and kids smashed up in the middle of the fast lane.
Pieces of her car were still flying and spinning on the road as I was stopping.
Judging by the extreme damage to the front/right of her little car, it wasn’t hard to see what had happened.
His “hole shot” fell a bit short, that time.
“After all, if you kill someone and there aren’t any witnesses, you can probably lie your way out of any conviction.”
Every year, here, we have least one or two bikers who die on back roads in “single vehicle accidents” when their bikes “went off the road for no apparent reason”.
Yeah.
Sure.
If only Holsteins could talk.
I saw a similar incident on I-25 SB in downtown ABQ a few years ago. Some kid in a Hyundai was doing the speed racer thing and miscalculated a lane change, and suddenly everyone was slamming on their brakes.
The car ended up facing against traffic, and he must not have had his seat belt on, as he was in the passenger seat when the car came to rest. That certainly took the wind out of his sails.
I was one of those unexplained single bike accidents, that lived. I was run off of the road when a car came around a blind curve on my side and traveled in my lane. He drove for at least 100 yards before I finally had to leave the road and my bike went down on the sloping berm. I slid on my back quite a ways and tore my hand up grabbing a road sign to keep from sliding into the roadway on the blind curve.
A Township Police Officer happened by as I was examining my bike. It was damaged, but was able to be ridden home. He made sure I didn't want to go to the hospital and advised that it'd be a waste of time to do a crash report unless I was turning it into my insurance.
I was young and dumb, so I went on my way. Finally figured out that he was just saving himself a couple hours worth of paperwork.
If I'd have been a fatal, it would have gone in the books that I left the road on my own accord. No witnesses.