The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2

General Category => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: Frank_M on October 08, 2007, 07:38:13 AM

Title: Safety Consideration
Post by: Frank_M on October 08, 2007, 07:38:13 AM

Very recently there was a terrible interstate accident. Three motorcycles stopped in the emergency lane so riders and passengers could put on rain gear. Unfortunately, they pulled off just the other side of a rise. What happened next was not entirely clear from the news reports, but it seems a pickup was getting squeezed at the rise by other vehicles and had to use the emergency lane. There was no time for the driver to react when he made the downside, and he plowed into all three bikes. A husband and wife from Oklahoma were killed.

The lesson here for us defensive bikers is to pull off at a spot that allows for a long section of visibility both for other drives and yourself. And an extra recommmendation is to NEVER take your eyes off the traffic, especially that which is headed in your direction.

Title: Re: Safety Consideration
Post by: Rob Valdez 79 R65 on October 08, 2007, 05:57:40 PM

Thank you for that story, Frank.    I will definitely analyze the situation more closely next time I stop along the road.

I'm sorry this had to happen.  I'm going to pass it along.

Title: Re: Safety Consideration
Post by: msbuck on October 08, 2007, 07:59:20 PM

Wow.  A terrible story.  Definitely worth taking note and paying extra attention when pulling off for any reason!

Title: Re: Safety Consideration
Post by: Justin B. on October 08, 2007, 09:42:19 PM

This sounds like a somewhat distorted (by multiple re-tellings, you all know how that works) report of an incident that happened here in Ft. Worth not to long ago.  Two bikes pulled under an IH-35W overpass on the north side of Ft. Worth during a storm.  From the way I understood it Granny was on one bike and her daughter and her young (I remember hearing both 6 and 8 years old) son were on another.  They were on the shoulder of the interstate and an SUV or something, for some reason, came over onto the shoulder and took them out and I believe it was the Grandmother that was killed.  I think the cops just chalked it up to being a "weather related" accident...

Title: Re: Safety Consideration
Post by: richard_t on October 08, 2007, 09:48:51 PM

these people were from Okarche and Kingfisher Ok  I have been on local rides with 2 of them

Title: Re: Safety Consideration
Post by: Rob Valdez 79 R65 on October 08, 2007, 11:27:08 PM

Distorted or not, fiction or not, it is a very valuable lesson to keep in the forefront.

Title: Re: Safety Consideration
Post by: Frank_M on October 09, 2007, 06:06:57 AM

This accident happened on I-64 in Kentucky just last week. It's where I live. My wife drove through the horrible scene soon after it happened. Here's a link with a brief summary of the tragedy...

(http://www.kentucky.com/471/story/195451.html)

Title: Re: Safety Consideration
Post by: Justin B. on October 09, 2007, 08:22:29 AM

The incident I described happened here 2-3 weeks ago.  Kind of creepy to have two such similar incidents happen in different parts of the country at around the same time...

Title: Re: Safety Consideration
Post by: Ed Miller on October 09, 2007, 12:23:26 PM

I guess over the weekend there was a multi-bike wreck not far from Salem:

http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007710080307

Usually it's non-riders who always tell me about this stuff....

Title: Re: Safety Consideration
Post by: thrang on October 11, 2007, 02:38:14 PM

Unfortuantely that sort of accident is all to common over here in rural areas where there are no pavements. Sure its not usually riders who ae getting splated, its usually brain dead pedestrians walking on the wrong side of the road with their backs on the on coming traffic and then they step, stagger lurch into the road in front of the car they have not seen, or heard becaue its exhaust is so dammed quiet its dangerous.