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madjestikmoose
·I know someone who also lost a leg, and many who are no longer with us from riding motorcycles. That's why I've always been partial to vehicles with 4 wheels...
So you think you’ve had a bad day?
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Archer
··Omega Qualified WatchmakerI’ve never met anyone who’s either owned or owns a motorcycle who hasn’t been hospitalised whilst riding it in one capacity or another. I’m sure there are a great many careful riders out there in the world but here in the UK the statistics are staggering - something like ‘motorcycles make up around 5% of vehicles on the road, yet are involved in 75% of road traffic accidents.’ They scare me; if that’s the state of his Rolex I shudder to think what injuries the OP’s rider sustained.
The problem is, no matter how careful you as a rider, your are only ever half the equation. The amount of dumb stuff I see people doing in cars is bad enough when I am somewhat protected by my car. All it takes is a fraction of a second of inattention by some teenager looking at their phone, and you are toast.
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madjestikmoose
·The problem is, no matter how careful you as a rider, your are only ever half the equation. The amount of dumb stuff I see people doing in cars is bad enough when I am somewhat protected by my car. All it takes is a fraction of a second of inattention by some teenager looking at their phone, and you are toast.
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JwRosenthal
·He is still in there. You can see his arm. And I’m pretty sure that’s blood splatters on the back of the truck.
That seems like a Long Island type of accident
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JwRosenthal
·Father was a surgeon, rode a bike while in med school as cheap transport- that ended when an 18 wheeler turned left in front of him at night. He dropped it, slid under, truck ran over bike, he luckily let go and kept sliding. He always referred to them as “donor-cycles”. I’m not bold enough to trust the idiots with whom I share the road to not hit me...so I just admire from the curb.
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MRC
·I’ve never met anyone who’s either owned or owns a motorcycle who hasn’t been hospitalised whilst riding it in one capacity or another. I’m sure there are a great many careful riders out there in the world but here in the UK the statistics are staggering - something like ‘motorcycles make up around 5% of vehicles on the road, yet are involved in 75% of road traffic accidents.’ .
We'll have to meet, I've been riding motorcycles since 1971, several periods of time as my only transport. Been to A&E for bicycle crashes, sticking a sharp piece of steel into my hand, taking off my leathers while standing in the kitchen [*] having an electric kettle blow up in my hand, but never from riding a mo-bike.
[*] I believe the root cause was moving heavy computer racks at work, anyway it meant I couldn't keep one knee bent for more than a few minutes and that ended my motorbiking days.
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Stripey
·The problem is, no matter how careful you as a rider, your are only ever half the equation. The amount of dumb stuff I see people doing in cars is bad enough when I am somewhat protected by my car. All it takes is a fraction of a second of inattention by some teenager looking at their phone, and you are toast.
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gostang9
·I drive about 30,000 miles annually. When I buy a car, the safety features and the crash test ratings are the first thing I look at. I don't drink and drive, I don't text and drive, I wear my seatbelt, I pull over when I'm tired, and I drive defensively and not aggressively. Sounds boring, I know, but I've driven past too many horrendous accident scenes. At highway speeds, all it takes is a few seconds of distracted driving for a tragedy to occur.
I'll never forget one traffic accident my parent's passed when I was a child, I saw a child-seat with a lone teddy bear laying on the ground beside the wrecked vehicle in the ditch. No idea what injuries or fatalities may have resulted, but the image has always stuck with me.
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SkunkPrince
·You see morons all the time in the summer with shorts, t-shirts and flip flops cruising the highways on their bikes, often with mama hanging on dressed the same way.
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rcs914
·He is still in there. You can see his arm. And I’m pretty sure that’s blood splatters on the back of the truck.
That seems like a Long Island type of accident
There is also the temporary black curtain to block further viewing BEHIND the car. I'm not really too curious about what is there 😲
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rcs914
·In the EU (and the UK for the time being) trailers must have crash bars that stop this happening. A car can't go under the trailer like this.
Unfortunately in the US the under-ride bars are completely inadequate and have been forever. As a kid, probably 30 years ago, I remember ABC News PrimeTime Live doing a piece on how the under-ride bars were completely inadequate and should be corrected, and how the ones in Europe were specifically designed to prevent this type of accident. The trucking companies and probably the Teamsters were all against it because it would "cost too much". This despite the fact that they could have just made it a regulation for all trucks going forward, rather than retrofitting exisiting trucks - by now everything would have had them. But no, nothing was done and we still have these utterly ridiculous solid bars that act more like a guillotine than an under-ride preventer. Utterly ludicrous, but far from the most ludicrous thing in the USA.
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