[RunningWolf]

I know someone that survived a crash on a public road at 170 mph and it was on a motorcycle, the Suzuki Hayabusa. This was the summer of 2004.

I saw him at the hospital about 30 hours after it happened. He was in a coma and it looked like he would not make it. Then it looked like he would be brain damaged forever, he could not remember anything for more than 30 seconds. But after a few weeks he started coming around.

I went and saw the crash site. He had failed to negotiate a uphill turn at that speed and left the road, his crash path paralleled an exit lane leading up to a T stop. The length of the crash path was 270ft/approx> It was all in grass etc., although the first part of the path went thru the carved ravine off the freeway shoulder.

You could see where the front wheel exploded and the forks gouged in, then about every 35 ft or so the turf would be torn up where the tumbling bike impacted, ending finally with one long gouge.

Fortunately no one else was hurt.

What was left of the machine looked like a crumpled up soda can.

W.

[taxed2death]

"I know someone that survived a crash on a public road at 170 mph and it was on a motorcycle, the Suzuki Hayabusa. This was the summer of 2004."

I screwed my Ducati into the center of the Earth at 155 mph in
Pocono's a few years back.


looked like a yard sale.

Not fun.