Author Topic: Bad Crash (Read 6611 times)

tacoman · « **on:** May 09, 2006, 01:55:44 PM »

Has anyone witnessed a bad bike crash right as it happened? I saw a bad one last night and it shook me up good. I've seen videos of crashes but its a whole new ballgame live. I see a kid on a sport bike in the oncoming lane, I look close because it had a cool paint job. All of a sudden, he jumps up on the pegs and pulls a wheelie. This is rush hour and there's cars everywhere. I'm thinking to myself, my god, what fu_ _ are you doing? I watch it unfold in my side mirror. He keeps the wheelie going and is accelerating fast. There is a truck stopped ahead of him. He drops the wheelie but waaay too late! What happened next was brutal and I'll never forget it. Wham! Rider flying, bike flying, pieces flying. I pull over and call 911, it rang forever. Gave all the info. I was going to go back but by then traffic was piling up fast and there was nothing I could do. Drove by this morning, big skid mark and lots of stains. I don't think its all oil and antifreeze either. Bad thing to see

Desolation Angel · « **Reply #1 on:** May 09, 2006, 02:03:37 PM »

Awful. I've been within 3-4 car lengths of one that happened on the freeway.

D@mn! What is it with the wheelie-ing and other stuff on public roads?!!! Find somewhere else to do it! Not the public streets!

Condolences to his family.

B12Power · « **Reply #2 on:** May 09, 2006, 04:56:57 PM »

I watched, in my bike's mirror, a novice rider who fixated his attention on the culvert instead of "looking through" a standard intersection left-hand turn.
The view and sounds were quite painful as he and bike slowly low sided and crunched down into the bar ditch. He was riding one of MY bikes!

dodgem340 · « **Reply #3 on:** May 09, 2006, 06:10:35 PM »

I live in Lakewood...whereabouts did this happen at?? I've come across one a few minutes after it happened, probably didn't miss it by much.

WEINERDOGBONE · « **Reply #4 on:** May 09, 2006, 07:10:59 PM »

I saw a teenager crash a moped one time. It was pretty hideous. For some reason, he locked up the brakes at an intersection and slammed his shoulder and head right into the pavement. He was probably only going 30mph when it happened.

I was going the opposite way and jumped out of my car to help him. Before I got there, he jumped back on the moped and hauled a## out of there.

The kid was wearing a helmet luckily. I never did figure out why he locked the brakes up. There was no one else around him.

Red01 · « **Reply #5 on:** May 10, 2006, 09:41:19 AM »

Practicing his mad stunta skilz so he'd look good when he got his new GSXR and goes lidless?

Red01 · « **Reply #6 on:** May 10, 2006, 09:51:33 AM »

I've seen a couple of car nasty wrecks in person, but no serious bike wrecks. I did happen across a fresh m/c accident in downtown Santa Ana, CA once. The police had just arrived on scene and were just starting to divert traffic away and I was one of the last ones thru before they closed off the block. An old white haired lady in a mid 60's Nova had rearended a kid on a CB125. The kid wasn't wearing a helmet and was sprawled out in the street in a pool of blood - appeared to have come from his head. I've never seen so much blood. Looked like someone had drained an automatic transmission in the middle of the street. Didn't look like the kid survived.

Desolation Angel · « **Reply #7 on:** May 10, 2006, 10:48:09 AM »

Quote from: "Red01"

... middle of the street. Didn't look like the kid survived.

Holy cr@p! That sounds an awful lot like you think he died!

Have you not learned any lessons on this board?

Red01 · « **Reply #8 on:** May 10, 2006, 10:56:47 AM »

OMG! Now all his friends and relatives will come along, join the board and tell me how he survived and is doing fine and is now a brain surgeon riding with paramedics to save others like himself. . . and never post again.

To save myself from this fate, I purposely left out when it happened... so it could have been ANY kid on a CB125 that got rear-ened by a granny in a mid 60's Nova and bled mass quantities of blood in the middle of a downtown Santa Ana street. They'll have to do a lot of digging around in the site to find out when I was in Santa Ana to narrow it down.

tacoman · « **Reply #9 on:** May 10, 2006, 03:23:51 PM »

For the locals, the crash happened at Waller Rd and S 72nd St. I keep looking in the local newspaper website to see if there's any story. I wonder how he did? I drove by again last night and looked again at those stains, then I read your piece Paul about the blood. Nasty. Its still in my head. I see clearly the pieces flying in the air, these things went 10-15 ft high. This is not something I need to see again.

dodgem340 · « **Reply #10 on:** May 10, 2006, 04:53:30 PM »

I'm wondering if there will be anything in the paper...the one that happened about a week and a half ago, I never saw it in the paper. I was hoping to read that he came out okay, and maybe read some details on it. There is a lot of paint on the street marking things, so I don't think it had a good outcome.

CWO4GUNNER · « **Reply #11 on:** May 11, 2006, 03:16:31 AM »

solman · « **Reply #12 on:** May 11, 2006, 03:49:53 AM »

I've seen a couple happen in front of me:

1. We were heading to Prescott, via 89 out of Wickenberg. About half way there, a few doves flew in front of the rider in front of me. He missed the first, but hit the second in the face. Luckily, he was wearing a full face helmet. His head jolted a bit and was able to maintain control of the bike. He stopped soon after and when he turned around, his face shield broke, leaving a big hole in his face shield. He somehow managed to keep from wrecking, but what a sight it was to watch. BTW, a dove was hurt in this incident(actually died).

2. A group of us went for a night run around Lake Arrowhead(Wichita Falls, TX). While following a Kawi on a left turn, a truck came around the turn(opposite direction) and I think it spooked him. He ended up going into the grass and crashed. Nothing serious, but it did scrape the bike and the rider up a bit.

3. (Worst story)Their is a group of riders and who ever else shows up on
Saturday nights to meet up and hang out. Usually sometime during the night, we usually go for a quick run around town. On this night, three of us decided to go on a quick run. The first two pulled out of the parking lot and turned right. Just as we started to accelerate(I was third), a young girl with a newborn driving a car(she was driving the opposite direction) made a left turn in front of us. The first rider hit her front right corner of her car. It was a really bad impact. This is mainly because when he hit, not only did he gain air time, his bike's rear end twisted to the right. So it spun him as well as tossing him. He ended up with some bad internal injuries and lost half a leg(above the knee). He survived it and seemed to be in good spirit when I last saw him.

Red01 · « **Reply #13 on:** May 11, 2006, 10:09:31 AM »

Quote from: "solman"

Just as we started to accelerate(I was third), a young girl with a newborn driving a car(she was driving the opposite direction) made a left turn in front of us.

What the heck was a newborn doing driving? They can't even feed themselves, let alone have the co-ordination to drive.
Some kids parents these days...

solman · « **Reply #14 on:** May 11, 2006, 11:10:29 AM »

Quote from: "Red01"

Quote from: "solman"
Just as we started to accelerate(I was third), a young girl with a newborn driving a car(she was driving the opposite direction) made a left turn in front of us.

What the heck was a newborn doing driving? They can't even feed themselves, let alone have the co-ordination to drive.
Some kids parents these days...

She couldn't of been too smart. I think she was 16 and had a newborn.