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Title: Things you never want to ride up on Post by: sroberts152 on November 08, 2009, 02:31:10 PM Did 150 miles today. Coming down 9 I roll up on an accident that just happened. Pull over, take off my helmet, help get the bike out of the road, get the injured rider stabilized and call 911. Almost 30 minutes later, I got back on the road.
Guy on a Honda coming up 9 from Saratoga, about 3 miles from Skyline lost control and low sided. Both he and his bike went sliding over the double yellow and took out a guy on the BMW. BMW was riding solo, Honda rider had at least 1 guy with him. Both bikes are totaled. The Honda isn't even close to being salvaged. The Honda rider was in jeans, boots, leather jacket and cloves and a full face. BMW rider wearing 2 piece leather suit, gloves, full face helmet and boots. Honda rider was walking and talking, BMW rider was talking, never lost consciousness, but had bad pain in his right hip, leg and back. He had to go to hospital. The Honda rider, when I asked him, said he wasnt going that fast, freaked out when he saw the other rider riding near the double yellow and dropped his bike. I think he was going faster than what he says - he slid for maybe 25 feet before the collision, and was square in the middle of the other lane where the accident occurred. Also, his bike ended up another 40 feet UP the hill, over the lane and into the bushes. I can not believe this guy was walking around after this accident. There were parts of his bike all over the road and bushes. His pipe was almost 10 feet from where the bike ended up. The subframe was snapped. The BMW has bent forks - really bent forks, bent rim and destroyed plastics all over the place. The Beemer was so bad we couldn't push the bike. It took 4 of us to drag it by the back and drag it off the road and just drop it. Ride safe everyone. This could have been a much different result today - much like the LDD accident. Beemer: (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj71/sroberts152/IMG_0259.jpg) Beemer forks: (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj71/sroberts152/IMG_0271.jpg) Honda: (http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj71/sroberts152/IMG_0264.jpg) Title: Re: Things you never want to ride up on Post by: sroberts152 on November 08, 2009, 02:36:52 PM Here is the Honda again. Can you spot the pipe?
(http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj71/sroberts152/IMG_0263.jpg) Title: Re: Things you never want to ride up on Post by: desmoquattro on November 08, 2009, 02:58:53 PM Crap...glad they're both relatively OK. It's getting colder, slicker, and darker, with more debris on the road. Slow down and mellow out, people.
Title: Re: Things you never want to ride up on Post by: mostrobelle on November 08, 2009, 04:24:37 PM Yuck. Bad situation for them and you.
Title: Re: Things you never want to ride up on Post by: Michael Moore on November 08, 2009, 05:14:41 PM Crap...glad they're both relatively OK. It's getting colder, slicker, and darker, with more debris on the road. Slow down and mellow out, people. +11ty billion. There are shady spots all over the place that never dry out now, even on a warm afternoon. Plus the occasional patch of moss :o to liven things up. We should all take it down about 5 notches. Title: Re: Things you never want to ride up on Post by: Popeye the Sailor on November 08, 2009, 07:21:12 PM We should all take it down about 5 notches. So like...Neponi (sp?) speed? Title: Re: Things you never want to ride up on Post by: somegirl on November 08, 2009, 07:30:54 PM sroberts, thanks for helping out. [thumbsup]
Title: Re: Things you never want to ride up on Post by: Michael Moore on November 08, 2009, 08:20:39 PM So like...Neponi (sp?) speed? ??? I meant speed. No idea what Neponi is. Title: Re: Things you never want to ride up on Post by: Popeye the Sailor on November 08, 2009, 08:24:41 PM ??? I meant speed. No idea what Neponi is. How about who? Think 5MPH and upright...in all corners.... Title: Re: Things you never want to ride up on Post by: sroberts152 on November 08, 2009, 10:03:06 PM sroberts, thanks for helping out. [thumbsup] As often as I can. I hate to see stuff like this, I would hope others would do the same for me. I got out of there as soon as I got my jacket off the guy so I could clear room for the emergency guys. Title: Re: Things you never want to ride up on Post by: velocess on November 09, 2009, 07:06:32 AM Happen to follow the rescue truck down from the station. The road was completely dry in both directions and had I heard that story from the Honda rider, I would be instrumental in his legal prosecution. I was behind the LDD accident and came up on the death of a Monster rider on 35 last spring. I've seen more than enough first hand and I could have easily been the BMW guy minding my own business, or the Norton rider. I was less than ten minutes from those three "avoidable incidents." Which is THE legal term in California, there is no longer such a thing as an "accident."
Accountability for Stupidity Title: Re: Things you never want to ride up on Post by: sroberts152 on November 09, 2009, 07:54:07 AM That is one thing that really got me about this one - even more so than the LDD accident because I wasn't going that direction at the time.. I stopped to talk to 2 monster owners and spent just a few moments longer than I wanted to with them. If things had been a little different, that very easily could have been me. I took a mellow ride the rest of the way down and really reflected on that.
I don't know what I would matter about prosecution. I'm not the investigator. He didn't seem like he was going to run, he couldn't really deny it was his fault - and he didn't. He was a green-ish rider, made a huge, huge mistake and someone else has to pay for it. I don't think the Honda rider is ever going to ride again. He will end up paying financially and the other guy will |