Posted on 08/12/2009 5:41:25 AM PDT by DemonDeac
My experience with motorcycle drivers and a hard look at safety data can be summarized as follows:
1. Most motorcycle drivers never come close to having an accident.
2. There are a number of motorcycle drivers who are drawn to motorcycles for their perceived higher risk. The purchase of a motorcycle is, for these characters, a death warrant.
3. Most motorcycle drivers who die in accidents have had at least one major automobile accident in the last five years.
4. Most deaths on motorcycles involved people who do not have the motorcycle endorsement on their drivers license.
I think the guy in the motorhome is without fault and he had the unfortunate experience of running into a number two.
Darwin award for the motorcyclist seems to me to be appropriate. At least an honorable mention, perhaps.
Motorcycle not bicycle. However, your general premise is correct. The motorcycle rider was at fault. I sounds to me as if he was trying to cause the RV to lose control and crash. This actually worked but with some unforeseen consequences to the motorcyclist.
I gotta say I get SO PO’d when cages do stupid things that put my life in danger but you gotta remember who you are and where you are. I do admit that when folks do stupid things around me I figure they are mostly driving the same routes so I look for ‘em later in my F-350. I call it the “Iceberg”. Folks respect that.
OOOOO, I’ve seen something like this happen on the way to work on day. This kid in a Mazda 3 was weaving in and out of traffic, not looking, detriot lean, oblivious to everyone else. In my rear view mirror I saw him cut a guy off in an older red pickup truck. Next thing I know I see the kid (now ahead of me) get run into the jersey barriers by the red truck - the truck kept going. I was so happy that day to see the little f@#$%^ got what he deserved.
Read the article, the witnesses say that the biker did exactly that, pulled in front of the RV and braked suddenly. This was after flipping the RV driver off for some unknown(at least to us)reason. It sounds to me as if the biker wanted to cause the RV driver to lose control and didn't figure on being the bug on the windshield. As I said to another poster, unforeseen consequences. Apparently you are a motorcycle rider and for some reason don't want to believe what eye witnesses said. That is your prerogative.
Not much relaxing at Camarillo in this incident.
Apparently you didn’t read the entire article:
CHP Officer Terry Uhrich says the 68-year-old motor home driver was traveling about 55 mph in the southbound lanes in Camarillo and couldn’t avoid slamming into the bike.
I didn’t get the impression at all that the article author was blaming the Motor Home Driver, I got the impression that the Biker was mad about the slow speed of the Motor Home, and tried to piss the poor MH drive off (who did not), but couldn’t react to the Biker’s Childish games..which eventually killed him.
You have a very active imagination.
Uhmm...what?
You divined from a 124 word article that not only was the biker a liberal, but that the RV driver was conservative and the media was trying to make him loo bad to protect the biker.
Did I get that straight? I hope not.
Uhmm...what?
You divined from a 124 word article that not only was the biker a liberal, but that the RV driver was conservative and the media was trying to make him loo bad to protect the biker.
Did I get that straight? I hope not.
A relatively small percentage of the population is willing to kill. That's what these idiots depend upon. Occasionally, they guess wrongly.
I was commenting from my perspective as a truck driver with a better than average field of vision, comparing that field of vision with an RV driver ... two more than young men with something to lose and .... well ... I DID read the article ... I just have a hard time believing the outcome.
55MPH is not that fast, the biker was dragged in gravel (obviously the RV driver had enough where-with-all ... and space/time) to get over to the berm .... and I know too that if I rearend someone, my immediate reaction is to lock 'em up and pray I didn't kill the guy.
Nope .. the RV said, "Up mine, huh ... how about phuque you, a$$hole" ... and killed the biker.
The visual the eyewitnesses saw could support that account.
See my Post #21. I misread it as bicycle, and went from there.
The artilce did not say he was drug in gravel. It said he was drug until he came loose in the travel lanes.
My bad .. you’re right ... travel, not gravel.
P.S. ,, Hwy 101 ... what is it? .. 4, 5, 6 lane?
4 lane divided freeway.
Goes to show you that you can ignore the laws of physics But it is real hard to ignore the results of ignoring the laws of physics.
Dumb. RIP.
“Uhmm...what?
You divined from a 124 word article that not only was the biker a liberal, but that the RV driver was conservative and the media was trying to make him loo bad to protect the biker.
Did I get that straight? I hope not.”
The FBI should hire that poster.
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