Motorcycle wreck on Dallas tollway

[joseephuss]

[youtube]URDaZSPkO2o[/youtube]

http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/042511-video:-motorcyclist-survives-tollway-crash

 

[YosemiteSam]

Saw that the other day. Crazy. I think he only ended up breaking a couple of bones too.

 

[CowboyDan]

Man I'm glad he's ok. Anybody wanna take a bet that the driver behind him was texting?

I've been in 2 motorcycle accidents in my life.
1st one I was cut off by a Ford F250 and it ended up parked on top of my calf muscle.
2nd one an Acura Integra pulled out in front of me.....THEN STOPPED! thus taking away my escape route around the back of her. I took her back bumper off and Supermanned over the car for about 70 feet. Sprained my right hip, broke my left hand, busted up my left knee (20 stitches) and tore my left rotator cuff. Fun times.

I haven't ridden in about 10 years, but I'm getting the itch again, especially with the current gas prices. Anybody know how much a solid cafe racer is going for these days? Used of course.

 

[joseephuss]

I didn't link to youtube because of some of the cussing in the comments section, but it sounded as if some people knew more information about what happened. Someone said the guy in the car tried to flee the seen at one point. No way to know if that is true or not.

 

[Maikeru-sama]

Thanks God he is okay.

According to a link posted in the Youtube comments, the driver had no driver's license and no insurance and was only given 3 citations and let go.

After driving 140 miles a day from November to mid-April of this year, I found out just how dangerous some of these highways are. Just before my horrendous commute ended, a drunk driver went the wrong way on I-30 near downtown Ft. Worth, smashed into a tanker and it blew up, killing the driver of the tanker.

I would only take the Tollway if I absolutely had too.

 

[big dog cowboy]

I saw that the other day and couldn't believe the guy lived.

 

[vta]

Oh that's just wrong. Poor guy. Number one reason I'll never ride a motorcycle? Other people. No one really respects them.

 

[joseephuss]

Oh that's just wrong. Poor guy. Number one reason I'll never ride a motorcycle? Other people. No one really respects them.

I get that in general. In this specific wreck the guy driving the silver car doesn't seem to respect anyone on the road. If you removed the motorcycle from the equation the silver car would still rear end the car in front of him.

 

[CowboyDan]

It's disappointing to see that the rider appears to be only wearing a short sleeve shirt. That's a big no-no in my book. Leather gloves and jacket (or comparable), no matter what the weather.

 

[Rynie]

Thanks God he is okay.

According to a link posted in the Youtube comments, the driver had no driver's license and no insurance and was only given 3 citations and let go.

After driving 140 miles a day from November to mid-April of this year, I found out just how dangerous some of these highways are. Just before my horrendous commute ended, a drunk driver went the wrong way on I-30 near downtown Ft. Worth, smashed into a tanker and it blew up, killing the driver of the tanker.

I would only take the Tollway if I absolutely had too.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and bet that said driver should have been deported instead of ticketed.

 

[Vtwin]

The biker was locking up his rear brake apparently trying to avoid running into the quickly slowing traffic in front of him.

In no way trying to blame the biker for this but I would have been aiming to the left of the car in front of me expecting to have trouble from behind on that fast moving, congested road.

I've had cars slide right up next to me in similiar situations.

 

[vta]

I get that in general. In this specific wreck the guy driving the silver car doesn't seem to respect anyone on the road. If you removed the motorcycle from the equation the silver car would still rear end the car in front of him.

That's true, but you're so much more vulnerable on a bike to this kind of jerk. He's a lucky guy, thank God. I seem to have a lot of stories of motorcycle tragedies and beyond riding in the dirt with motocross, I never bothered with a street bike.

 

[vta]

Looking at it again, it's pretty amazing that he managed to pop out the side of the wreck and not end up under it. And not get run over by someone else.

 

[CowboyDan]

The biker was locking up his rear brake apparently trying to avoid running into the quickly slowing traffic in front of him.

In no way trying to blame the biker for this but I would have been aiming to the left of the car in front of me expecting to have trouble from behind on that fast moving, congested road.

I've had cars slide right up next to me in similiar situations.

I see what you're saying, and I see what appears to be smoke plooms coming off the rear tire twice, (which indicates good braking by the rider, not leaving it locked up but trying to maintain threshold braking) but I'm not entirely sure we're seeing it correctly. If however, he did lock up his rear tire twice, the driver behind him is still way late on reacting to the braking going on in front of him. Watch the nose of the car...it doesn't dive till waaaay late. That's when the car driver gets on the brakes.
Now you and I know that bikes use half the distance to stop that a car uses from the same speed, so that car driver has to be paying attention when a bike's in front of him.....and he was not.

 

[Vtwin]

I see what you're saying, and I see what appears to be smoke plooms coming off the rear tire twice, (which indicates good braking by the rider, not leaving it locked up but trying to maintain threshold braking) but I'm not entirely sure we're seeing it correctly. If however, he did lock up his rear tire twice, the driver behind him is still way late on reacting to the braking going on in front of him. Watch the nose of the car...it doesn't dive till waaaay late. That's when the car driver gets on the brakes.
Now you and I know that bikes use half the distance to stop that a car uses from the same speed, so that car driver has to be paying attention when a bike's in front of him.....and he was not.

I agree.

It looks like his rear wheel starts to slide out to the right on the first skid and he lets up to get it back under control. They actually taught my wife to not release the brake if you lock up the rear wheel in the MSF course she took a couple years ago. This might be good advice for complete newb because you can high-side pretty easily if the back end is out to far but anyone who has ridden dirtbikes knows where that point is and how to keep it under control.

I rarely even use the rear brake on my Softail. Only in a panic stop which I practice occasionaly. On my dirtbike I rarely use the front brake.

 

[Dallas]

The motorcycle riders in CA are unbelievable and are just asking to be killed. While on vacation, I would see numerous motorcycles driving bat crazy right on the center line in heavy traffic. Im talking 60+ MPH in about 3 feet of space, and EVERY motorcycle I came across was doing it.

It was insane. 90% were little race bikes. I didn't see any harley's doing that.

Just thought....wow

"You are asking to be killed, and you scream about drivers not looking out for you?"

The traffic in LA was insane. I don't understand why anyone would ride this way.

 

[CowboyDan]

I don't understand white-lining at all. It's big down here in TX, and I think it's suicide.

 

[Cajuncowboy]

Helmet laws suck!

 

[joseephuss]

I don't understand white-lining at all. It's big down here in TX, and I think it's suicide.

It is illegal in Texas. It is also against the law in California, but they tolerate it.

 

[CowboyDan]

It is illegal in Texas. It is also against the law in California, but they tolerate it.

I wasn't sure about TX, but I thought it was legal in CA. When did that change?