Motorcycle-Accident Video

[VALKETEER]

This is what happens when a motorcycle travelling 155 mph collides with a car. :(

http://media.putfile.com/Motorcycle-Accident

[Crazy Al]

That's the trouble with riding at 'silly speeds' on the street - people can't judge how quickly the rider is gaining on/approaching to them. And the rider as well doesn't have a good 'sense' of how quickly he is approaching - which is why race tracks have brake markers.
Ugly, but quick.

:22yikes:

[Jeff K]

How did we determine that he was speeding?
I saw nothing in the video that would indicate the rider was speeding or did anything wrong.
What did I miss?

[Jeff K]

OK, if we are just throwing out opinion and wild guesses...
I'm going with the theory of... the motorist pulled out in front of the rider at the last second. The rider was driving at posted speeds. during the impact the added weight of the riders helmet snapped his neck. Had the rider not been wearing a helmet he would have been very sore but he would still be alive.
There, that’s my interpretation of the video. And it's just as factual as yours at this point.

[Crazy Al]

You're right Jeff!

:pepper1:

I would add that if he had LOUD pipes, the car would have heard him and the accident could have been avoided.
Also....
Back in the days when I was ripping and running we had what we called 'originals and I think present day riders are missing out on another great safety practice - 'Be safe, be smelled!'

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[Ga Mike]

I don't understand the video either. Seems to me if the rider hit the car at 155mph, he would be part of the car, and not in one piece laying on the side of the road. JMHO

[Maddog]

I think had I been there I would have had a piece of the person that was filming it all, just my humble opinion on what fasinates some people, especially if it was my riding partner laying on the road
maddog

[Jeff K]

I was thinking the same thing. There seemed to be a real lack of any kind of emotion, with anyone. Lots of people just standing around.

[obwhann]

Do you think?That he would have landed a little farther than he did, if he was going 155mph. Unless him hitting the car fisrt decreased the force to throw the rider only as far as he was.

[HAWK88]

Jeff;

As an EMS Pilot for over 10 years, I noticed that (lack of visible emotion) more often than not, unless a friend or family member was involved, or called to the scene.

It used to really irritate me, some of the snide, uncaring remarks "Looke-See's" spouted, when the first responders were trying desperately to help someone.

Darn near got me fired a couple of times, I had no shame moving unnecessary *&^holes from a scene.

Ride Safe!
HAWK88
Jack Phillips

[VALKETEER]

I don't know for sure how fast the biker was really going or that he was not alive. I do hope he survived.

This is true as people seem to have a service lack of compassion for anyone but them selves or those close to them these days. The one thing I’ll never understand is the infatuation some people have with the ‘faces of death’ movies. I work with a few that seem to talk about these videos to no end. I have never seen one of these death videos nor do I care to ever and I don‘t understand those who wish to view them.
This discussion has brought back an ugly memory from back in my twenties. A buddy of mine had a crash with a drunk driver on his Honda 350. He was laying in the middle of the road with broken ribs, a broken right hip and pelvis, a broken sternum, a ruptured spleen and a lacerated liver. I was not there but he told me later that apparently he was disappointing the onlookers as he did not die in the accident. With the sound of the ambulance siren in the distance and worry about there entertainment one of the onlookers walked up to him and said, "Come on man hurry up and die before they get here. I've never seen anyone die before".

[HAWK88]

John;

That's the type that used to get my back up.

Had a father once, bitching about a broken nose from the airbag, otherwise uninjured, who's UNRESTRAINED child had blown through the windshield!

Fortunately the child landed in tall grass with only a couple of broken "this and that's", but I was really disgusted with the parent!

I would have happily "reset" his nose, after vigorous manipulation, but saved my job by not confronting him. I really spanked the ZZR on the way home that night!

Rather like the old saw "you got'ta have a license to fish, drive, etc., but not to take care of children".

Ride Safe!
HAWK88
Jack Phillips