Drunk driver kills government employee sitting at stoplight

[mitt]

this is what happens when it is 10 bikes at a light and a dump truck driver on meth...






























story

http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=36371.0

mitt

[sbrguy]

Pathetic story, horrible work on the scene.  Hope the family sues and takes every dime the dirtbag DRUNK DRIVER has and will ever get. They deserve their day in court

[ducatiz]

The pneumonic phrase to remember them is "All Good Kids Love Milk."

ohhh

mnemonic.

[Lor]

An ahole driving a Suburban tried to squash me once. I honked - no response- I knocked on his window while we were going 35 and he was still moving on top of me - no response...

Fist to his side mirror, taking it off the door, he swerved away.

It's amazing how polite people get when they realize it's not a video game and they are in easy access of armourd gloves.
   

Nice, I'm curious did you take off his driver or passenger mirror?

[krolik]

ohhh

mnemonic.

d'oh

[ducatiz]

Nice, I'm curious did you take off his driver or passenger mirror?

i assumed it was the rearview mirror

[orangelion03]

The 5 Seeing Habits will save your life.

I got this from UPS, they constantly drill us on this. UPS didn't come up with them, but they do work.

[moto]
http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Five-Seeing-Habits-of-Safe-Driving&id=1751763

Good stuff!  My father drilled those same habits into us when my bro and I learned to drive back in the 70s.

[He Man]

If you ride in enough bad situations, you will begin to automatically do things that normal riders dont do. I say this because it should be part of normal riding. Out of now subconscious fear and habbit, i do 3 things.

1) I check the rear view mirror, sometimes cars come in really hot and slam on the brakes, and if you catch a car coming in hot, atleast you are aware and can do whatever you would normally do. Yes you take your eyes of the car in front of you, but you should be good enough to know where your bike is going to stop in relation to where the car ahead of you is. Eitehrway, its out of habbit and its good practice just to do a rear check.

2) If i'm braking suddenly to stop, such  as teh case where the vehicle in front of me is being operated by a retard, ill always aim between cars. Better i end up between 2 cars the right way then the wrong way. right way being between the driver side door of one car and the passenger side door of another. Wrong way = the front bumper of one, and hte rear bumper of another.

3) the last and final thing i do is only when im in the front. I will stop the bike like normally, but i aim for about a cars length before where you would normally stop, so once i get all my brakign done, im pretty much just coasting. This is good time to do a rear check via mirrors, your still moving so all you need to do is coast left and let him pass, or you coast more foward if it looks like hes not going to stop in time.

All these things happen without effort once you start doing it and it just becomes habbit to look at your mirror  while your braking. Saved me from rear ending someone who stopped short.

call me neurotic or watever, but if you commute in the city half as much as I do, you develop a habbit of trying to know whats going on around you as much as you can. You can never account for everything, but you can always try to look out for as much as you can and save the rest for <insert your diety here>.

Ive wanted to put those windwo shattering hammers into my knucles. man i would be such a hooligan if i had that!

RIP for this. Some of us have driven with one to many beers in our system, im not saying anytong on that other than you gotta be able to be smart enough to not drive when your hammered like that. Weaving in and out of traffic? Come on man...

[ROBsS4R]

If I can't lane split and I am exposed at nighttime when I see a car coming up from me at a stop sign I normally pump my brakes.

I don't know if that helps or not but sometimes a flashing light versus a solid color will get the drivers attention.


Of course this happened during the day but I thought I would mention this tip if no one does it.

[He Man]

motodynamic sells a flashing tail light for $80 bucks. its really noticeable.

[somegirl]

motodynamic sells a flashing tail light for $80 bucks. its really noticeable.

Flashing lights are illegal in California, have no idea about other states.

[ducatiz]

Flashing lights are illegal in California, have no idea about other states.

Modulated Headlights are legal in all 50 states under federal law

Modulated Taillights are 100% legal in California (provided it does not flash more than 4 times in four seconds)

http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d12/vc25251_5.htm

Deceleration Warning Lights
(c) Any stoplamp or supplemental stoplamp required or permitted by Section 24603 may be equipped so as to flash not more than four times within the first four seconds after actuation by application of the brakes.
Amended Ch. 410, Stats. 1983. Effective January 1, 1984.

[derby]

Modulated Headlights are legal in all 50 states under federal law

Modulated Taillights are 100% legal in California (provided it does not flash more than 4 times in four seconds)

http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d12/vc25251_5.htm

Deceleration Warning Lights
(c) Any stoplamp or supplemental stoplamp required or permitted by Section 24603 may be equipped so as to flash not more than four times within the first four seconds after actuation by application of the brakes.
Amended Ch. 410, Stats. 1983. Effective January 1, 1984.

saw a police moto w/ a flashing brakelight the other day and was impressed with how well it caught my attention.

[ducatiz]

saw a police moto w/ a flashing brakelight the other day and was impressed with how well it caught my attention.

noticing flashing lights is a primal survival response :  think in terms of a small mammal noticing the sunlight temporarily shadows and then comes back.  good way to notice an overhead predator.

[duccarlos]

noticing flashing lights is a primal survival response :  think in terms of a small mammal noticing the sunlight temporarily shadows and then comes back.  good way to notice an overhead predator.

Or a bird getting ready to shit on your head.

Do you have to replaced the whole tail light?