Another Cage Turns In Front Of Bike

[txbanditrydr]

Real bad wreck in my neck of the woods.  Broad daylight too.  A reminder to all....  don't trust anyone else on the road.    

Bad Wreck Link With Picture

Two people died after a motorcycle crashed into a car on Texas Highway 110 between Tyler and Whitehouse on Wednesday.

Motorcyclist Jonathan Remedies, 21, of Whitehouse, was pronounced dead at the scene. Judeen Hudson, 71, of Tyler, was pronounced dead a short time later at a Tyler hospital.

State Trooper Richard Brown of the Department of Public Safety said Hudson was southbound at about 5 p.m., turning into an auto body shop when she drove in front of Remedies' motorcycle in a 70-mph zone.

The impact pushed her Chevrolet Geo about 30 yards, into the open bay of Quality Auto Works.

Shop owner Tim Martin heard the impact, "like an explosion, and parts flew in the shop. Small parts even flew against the back wall ... I ain't never seen a motorcycle do so much damage."

[Desolation Angel]

It always makes me think.  I wonder sometimes if subconsciously I ride less because of knowing of these incidents.

[jbrough7]

Freind of mine who used to ride all the time sold his bike and got a boat instead.  He said it was just getting too busy in this modern world to ride a motorcycle.  And we live, not at the end of the earth, but , i swear, you can see it from here!
Jim

[Jacknife]

Yer, but if you dont live on the edge, you take up too much room!

[Daytona]

When i first joined this site and disclosed i used my 1G B12 mainly for work commuting 22 miles one way, and had to park in window scratching! silica blowing! park area!! that ate my new P/Ups windows the first week! But did it on the super slab/ I95! I had folks all over me saying too dangerous, no fun, unsafe, Yep all the above! But no side roads where these older folks that are having a prescription reaction! or lack of it! can't see, who shouldn't be driving will just close their eyes and hope! ON 95 18 wheeeler merging into your lane @ 95mph no prob slow, hit the median, car dead in front of you @ break neck speed (which is why your in that position anyway) hope things are rite with all, cause your time is here!!!! Super slab much safer IMO.    

[jbrough7]

We seem to have older friends a lot.  they all drive cages and ALL have told me they came to a street and went to turn on it and looked both ways and didn't see a biker coming and pulled out right in front of him.  These are all nice, conscientious people who don't HATE bikers!

They just can't see, I guess!

  Jim

[ATC'er]

This happened a couple of days ago, about 20 minutes from where I live:

ENFIELD -- A Hartford man involved in a fatal collision with a motorcyclist who worked as a correction officer was arraigned in Superior Court in Enfield Thursday and held as an undocumented worker.

Luis Perez-Lopez, a 23-year-old illegal immigrant from Guatemala, has been charged with negligent homicide with a motor vehicle, two counts of making an improper turn or stop, driving with articles obstructing his view, operating or towing an unregistered motor vehicle, operating a motor vehicle without a license and failure to insure a private motor vehicle.

Perez-Lopez was arrested Thursday after he collided with a motorcyclist in Suffield just before 7 a.m.

Gary Thureson, a 47-year-old correction officer, was riding his motorcycle west on Mountain Road near Hill Street when he was struck by the car Perez-Lopez was driving, police said.

Perez-Lopez was driving east on Mountain Road and made a left turn in front of Thureson, striking his motorcycle and trapping him under the car. A Suffield police officer and several good Samaritans lifted the car off Thureson.

He was flown to Hartford Hospital, where he died.

In court, Judge Howard Scheinblum set Perez-Lopez's cash surety bond at $50,000, denying a request by Perez-Lopez's public defender for a 10 percent cash alternative. Scheinblum ordered that Perez-Lopez not be held at the McDougall-Walker Correctional Institution, where Thureson worked.

"Given the fact that he's an illegal alien, given the fact that he was driving a car that had no insurance ...that he has no valid Connecticut license, that there's a death - these are the facts that concern me," he said.

"There is an immigration detainer, so bond is essentially academic," Bail Commissioner Paul Maselek told Scheinblum.

A man who attended Perez-Lopez's arraignment, along with Perez-Lopez's brother and girlfriend, declined to comment.

Thureson celebrated his 16th anniversary with the state Department of Correction the day he died, said Stacy Smith, a spokeswoman for the department. He was assigned to the McDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield and had formerly worked at Hartford Correctional Center.

A man who identified himself as a colleague of Thureson's but asked to remain anonymous said that Thureson worked the third shift, from 10:45 p.m. to 7 a.m.

He said Thureson would have been headed home to Otis, Mass., just before the collision, which occurred about five minutes from McDougall-Walker. He described Thureson as an avid golfer and outdoorsman who was going through a divorce.

Information provided during Perez-Lopez's arraignment provided a brief glimpse into his life. A Spanish-speaking interpreter translated for Perez-Lopez, who appeared unhurt.

He has lived in Hartford for about a year and traveled in and out of the United States between 2000 and 2002, according to Maselek.

Perez-Lopez attended school until he was 12 and has worked steadily during the past three years, according to Douglas Ovian, a public defender who represented him during the arraignment. Ovian cited Perez-Lopez's most recent job as a cleaner for an industrial company.

But Maselek said Perez-Lopez worked for the End of Hunt Stables in Suffield and had no criminal record. A woman at End of Hunt said Perez-Lopez did not work there.