I was coming from town into rural area headed home. I was making a left-hand turn onto a 2 Lane Highway with a blind hill to my right. I don't go through this intersection too often but when I do I'm always aware that someone could be coming over that hill. There's plenty of room to pull out safely even if the person is exceeding the speed limit by 10 or 15 miles an hour. Speed limit is 45.
As I made the turn, I heard the roar of a motorcycle. He had to be going close to 100 over that blind hill. I had just enough reaction to Ride the yellow line as he passed me on the right side.
Tried to get a plate number but no luck. Called 911 to make the locals aware. I didn't expect them to do anything but if he does get in an accident down the road with someone else at least there's something on the record books.
pic of the moron.
That looks like a centurion crest on the helmet which only a total squid would run.
Looks like an 02-03 Yamaha R1 in case you see him on the news.
We call them organ donors. Either he has a couple of years scared off him and he dials it back or he becomes a self correcting statistic.
Little humor....
Be funny if he started a thread on our forum...........Guy in car almost hits me.....could've been ugly.
I'll feel bad for the driver whose car he kills himself against. No one deserves the guilt of wondering if they killed another person.
In reply to GameboyRMH :
I have always used those crests as indicators to stay as far away as possible in traffic. If it isn't 80MPH wheelies, it's lane splitting gridlocked traffic going 40+.
Appleseed said:
We call them organ donors. Either he has a couple of years scared off him and he dials it back or he becomes a self correcting statistic.
I always thought an "organ donor" was somebody on a motorcycle without a helmet.
Beer Baron said:
I'll feel bad for the driver whose car he kills himself against. No one deserves the guilt of wondering if they killed another
If we made contact, I would have no way of proving that he was going double the speed limit. This intersection is the perfect scenario for someone not using proper caution before proceeding on a left turn and causing an accident. I remember telling myself as I approached the stop sign, that I need to be careful and look at the crest of the hill and pull out briskly. I don't think a dash cam would have helped. My truck was still turning onto the road.
edit: I won't be using this intersection for left turns ever again. There are safer options.
triumph7 said:
Appleseed said:
We call them organ donors. Either he has a couple of years scared off him and he dials it back or he becomes a self correcting statistic.
I always thought an "organ donor" was somebody on a motorcycle without a helmet.
My wife is a surgical nurse and she calls all motorcycle riders organ donors. The things she has seen
Driven5
UberDork
11/5/22 12:18 p.m.
In reply to rustybugkiller :
The carnage vs distance the motorcyclist had to slow down from the first head height sight line over the crest should be telling enough to any investigator or defense attorney.
Oh man, this could be one of those endless threads. One of the most compeling arguements for there being a merciful god with angels looking out for us is the fact that I haven't killed myself or someone else - mainly on the highway.
The problem is that he can kill somebody else too. Get T boned in a car or truck by a motorcycle going triple digit speeds, it's going right through the vehicle.
I knew someone whose mom and sister died that way. Motorcycle went in one side and out the other.
FloatingDoc, can't like that. Just tragic.
Worst part of squids is that they make everyone in a cage automatically hate anyone on a moto.
Ive been riding my son's ratty SV1000 occasionally, which looks/sounds like something a squid might ride. Im not sure if its part of the general decline of civility recently, or me getting older and more risk-adverse, combined with not riding every day, but I feel way less comfortable on a moto now than 5 years ago. Everyone seems to bring 110% crazy all the time now.
rustybugkiller said:
Beer Baron said:
I'll feel bad for the driver whose car he kills himself against. No one deserves the guilt of wondering if they killed another
If we made contact, I would have no way of proving that he was going double the speed limit.
A bike going 100mph has 5x the kinetic energy as a bike going 45mph. I think it would be pretty apparent.
XLR99 (Forum Supporter) said:
Everyone seems to bring 110% crazy all the time now.
That seems to just be the way things have gone since covid.
slefain
UltimaDork
11/6/22 1:31 p.m.
ProDarwin said:
rustybugkiller said:
Beer Baron said:
I'll feel bad for the driver whose car he kills himself against. No one deserves the guilt of wondering if they killed another
If we made contact, I would have no way of proving that he was going double the speed limit.
A bike going 100mph has 5x the kinetic energy as a bike going 45mph. I think it would be pretty apparent.
Haven't talked much about this in public, but this exact thing happened to us back in 2018. This is what a drunk on a sport bike doing 100+ will do to a 2010 Santa Fe that was nearly stopped:
Not a damn thing I could do either. Dude had the throttle pegged, head tucked, and just....didn't make the turn. It was the last mistake he ever made (besides drinking his lunch). I didn't kill him, he killed himself using my car. We were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Big thanks to FastAsleep for helping me get through the PTSD. Therapy helped too.
Wow, cannot like. Looks like you tried to get the hell out of the way as best you could.
slefain
UltimaDork
11/6/22 5:13 p.m.
XLR99 (Forum Supporter) said:
Wow, cannot like. Looks like you tried to get the hell out of the way as best you could.
Florida is a BS "no fault" state, and even the insurance company said no question who was at fault here. I slammed on the brakes and tried to get out of the way but dude was like a missile on auto-pilot. Autopsy report had him at near blackout level drunk.
What little was left of the bike fit in the hatch of the Santa Fe once it was swept up.
