Biker killed in freeway road-rage clash

Fox 5 San Diego ^

[DemonDeac]

"CAMARILLO, Calif. - A motor home struck and killed a motorcyclist, dragging his body about 75 feet on U.S. Highway 101 in a bloody conclusion to a Ventura County road-rage encounter.

The motorcycle was impaled on the motor home.

Witnesses and motor home driver Michael Antoine told the California Highway Patrol the biker made obscene hand gestures and pulled in front of the motor home before braking suddenly Monday afternoon."

[Talisker]

What the hell are you talking about?
There was no bicyclist, it was a motorcycle.

Whoops.

I plead familiarity with California bicyclist jerks.

I don't suppose a 57 year old motorcyclist was presumably operating under the same deranged liberal compulsions as a California bicyclist, either?

No, I guess not.

In the immortal words of Rosanne Rosannadanna: "Never Mind."

(I'm going to get another cup of coffee...)

[taxtruth]

Something doesn’t “+” up.

[Seruzawa]

I wonder if the witnesses were passengers in the motorhome, i.e. the driver’s relatives. They’d have plenty of time to make up a plausible story.

I have so many bad experiences with those old coots in their rolling barges that I suspect any story dealing with them. If I were king I would ban the dammed things. At the very least the driver’s should be required to have commerical licenses. If we demanded true competence form the drivers we’d lose about 3/4ths of those road hazards.

[Redleg Duke]

It sounds like the media is building a case for health care rationing to get the evil, RV-driving geezers off the road.

Maybe a stretch, but that is what we have come to in this age! We cannot trust the media to even report a traffic accident without bias.

[Dan(9698)]

old coots in their rolling barges

Guys who drove a Volkswagen all his life so he could retire and become a bus driver.

[trisham]

Sounds like suicide to me.

[kerosene]

When I first saw the headline, I thought the name of the RV driver would be Lloyd Bonafide, and Harvey Wireman's Senior Chat would revisit the topic of "How Long Have You Driven With a Person Under Your Car?"

I was wrong.

(You have to be a listener of the old Phil Hendrie Show to understand the references).

[Shooter 2.5]

I can’t think of a single time I have had a problem with an RV. They usually drive slower than the rest of the traffic in the right lanes. They do have a problem if they are switching lanes. I usually look out for that.

A couple of days ago, a couple of bikers ran a stop sign in front of me. The guy was trailing a pickup truck as he made the left hand turn. I was making a right and almost hit him and his female partner who was trailing a little behind him.

He pulled a wheelie in front of me after the incident.

I hope the RV driver is going to be ok. I hope he realizes he’s not responsible for other’s stupidity.

[HerrBlucher]

In the immortal words of Rosanne Rosannadanna: "Never Mind."

That was Emily Latella.

[Seruzawa]

Yeah, well I live and drive in a place where probably 1/2 of the motorhomes in the USA come each year, so admittedly my results are probably a bit skewed. The mountains are literally littered with these bloated tanks.

And I’ve also run into more than my share of idiots who shouldn’t be on motorcycles either.

I’ll bet that the truth of this incident is somewhere between.

[b4its2late]

Yes, very true.

[badpacifist]

I have had many instances where I saw motorcyclists acting like idiots which left me thinking that guy is going to get himself or someone else killed. Never seen or thought that once about a RV driver yet. Big rig yes but not RV yet.

[Talisker]

That was Emily Latella.

LOL - I give.

(although I'd love to hear someone say, "Chris, you ignorant slut" to Matthews).

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

“That had to be a dramatic shift in perspective for the motorcylist. “I’ll show that sumbitch” ...very rapidly evolves to..”Oh Sh*t.”

Kinda like some poor sap who voted for Obama so we could get past all this racial stuff.

[mbynack]

I had a very similar experience in North Georgia. I was pulling my 5th wheel trailer on a four lane highway and came up on a slow moving pickup. I signaled, checked the mirrors, and pulled into the left lane to pass. I was about halfway into the left lane when I saw a motorcycle coming at twice the posted speed limit. He had come up directly behind me in the same lane and had pulled out into the left lane the same time I did. He tried to continue passing on the shoulder, but decided against it at the last minute.

When I cleared the pickup I tried to move back into the right lane to let the bike go around, but the biker had swerved into the right lane and raced up next to the cab of the truck. He was screaming at me and giving me the finger and yelling for me to pull over. I returned the finger gesture and continued driving. He then tried to kick the front of my truck. When that was unsuccessful he swerved in front of me and hit his brakes. Apparently his single working brain cell kicked in at the point and he changed his mind. I could not have stopped or swerved in time to miss him if he hadn't swerved out of the way at the last moment.

People don't seem to realize that I can't see anything directly behind me when towing. It also takes about twice as long to stop when towing the trailer.

[OB1kNOb]

...the biker made obscene hand gestures and pulled in front of the motor home before braking suddenly Monday afternoon."

Well, I guess he taught that RV'er a lesson......the lesson being that bikers spread thin on pavement.

[Pistolshot]

Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I guess he forgot how these things work.