My boss sent this to me and I was mortified. And just recently I witnessed two guys on bikes pulling wheelies up 212 in EP going over 80-100 or so. they were flying. Anyways, these photos and the accident were real. Just thought about the bike thread we recently had and decided to post it up as a reminder that speed, whether in a car or on a bike can kill. Tulsa - A Broken Arrow man was killed early Tuesday morning after a motorcycle accident on Highway 169 near 81st Street. Witnesses say the cyclist was going faster than 100 miles per hour when he crashed into the back of a semi truck between 81st and 91st Street at about one o'clock Tuesday morning. Investigators say evidence shows the cyclist was going about 120 miles per hour at the time of the impact. It took the truck driver more than a quarter of a mile to come to a stop. When he did, he stepped out of his rig and found the motorcyclist dead at the back of the truck. "The truck driver was not hurt," says Captain Matt Kirkland. "He said that the impact was so strong that he thought he was hit from behind by another truck." Officers said there was no indication that drugs or alcohol played a factor in the accident. </B></STRONG></SPAN></B></STRONG></SPAN>
I saw this one on Nasioc a while back. Not a fun way to go at all. Still, it could've been a lot worse, he's pretty intact and there's not a lot of obvious trauma save for some chest wall deformation and it looks like he broke his neck too. Be careful out there guys
You can get killed just as quick in a car, bus, plane or bike...it's just the risk we take in living life.
seen it on MNSBR....this was in oaklahoma, not MN, and honestly, he screwed around and payed for it. RIP indeed.
WOW, that is mortifing. I am still kind of amazaed that the rider was still rather intact. you would think motorcycle + semi = puddle. geez.
It's amazing the amount of trauma a human body can go through without going to pieces, plus even though he was doing 120, it sounds like the semi was moving as well, figure 60-70ish if it was on the highway so it was a 50-60mph impact rather than a 120mph impact. I think it would've been a lot messier had that been the case.
damn...just damn I remember seeing this guy flying off his bike, when I was working at the mobil station off of valley view rd in ep a guy was riding his bike and hit the curb right in front of the station, and flew about 9 feet into the air, he landed on his back and knocked the air out of him...but it could've been worse for him
^no kidding. Honestly, the guy above got lucky. The poor guys who break tons of bones, lose hands, have tons of skin grafts to even look human again... I pity. He was blessed with a quick and most likely, painless death. I've heard it many times, and will gladly repeat it. A motorcycle is nothing but a magnifying glass for selective process if its user abuses its power. I ride my bike a lot. In fact, Ive done over 2700 miles just since the weather got warm this year. Pictures and stories like this dont scare me, because I dont ride like an idiot, am very cautious around cars, only ride with those with experience. On a bike your legs are wrapped around your ability to avoid an accident, or the ability to create a bad accident very quickly. Regardless of what you hit on a bike, you will always loose. People need to think about that every time they get ready to crank their right hand.
last month I visited some cousins in Tulsa, OK and they told me about this accident. if you think the import scene is big here, you need to go down south. In Tulsa especially..........i see kitted cars all the time revving at each other at stop lights.............i was amazed there were so many sport compacts, bikes, and performance cars around. Even the red necks were driving Honda S2000's and RX7's......I aint lying to you. anyway, careful or not.....bikes are a big risk. I once drove by a bike accident scene w/o helmet...........the guy was walking around and his head was bleeding all over his face.
Yes and no. Sometimes it all comes down to a sequence of seemingly inconsequential events that on their own don't mean a whole lot but when combined can either make or break your day. The extra metal and reinforcements you're surrounded by in a car can work against you sometimes. The old Gran Prix/F1 cars actually didn't have seatbelts, the reasoning at the time being that it'd be safer to be thrown out than stay in the car. Still, anytime you're doing triple digits on a public roadway, your margin of error is very, very slight indeed.
so if you look at the pic of the young blonde in the porsche at teh toll booth you wont buy another car either??? I am guessing the jacket would be on ebay...
and no I aint heartless... just not upset by it... it is a waste of a human life and very tragic but I have seen worse stuff... good thing we cant see pics of Rowanda and other african nations... and they dont have a choice to enjoy toys.. they just get killed for being alive.... ANy half intelligent person who rides a bike should always be conscious of this stuff... I do silly stuff, try to pop a wheelie here and there... but I always think about my kids and wife... so I have slowed down a lot.. even in my car... and the margin of error is different but people in cars, drinking sodas/coffee, smoking, talking on cells or to the other 4 people in the car lessen that margin of error and safety for any motorcyclist...
I'm with you on this one nate. The difference between someone who operates a motorvehicle and doesnt crash and one who does crash is usually their level of alertness. Driver ability plays a big role as well when it comes down to having to AVOID the accident, but being alert keeps you one step ahead of the idiots that cause them. On a bike, our "margin of error" is helped by our ability to outbrake, outmaneuver, and flat out accellerate many potential accidents (at higher speeds). A cars margin of error is helped by the ability to maneuver in poor weather conditions, at slower speeds, and obviously, the crumple zones in the event of an accident.
