really sucks that happened but I'm sure at one time or another everyone that's ever riden a bike has done something stupid that could have effected other motorists

 

If that was my family in the Suburban, they would have been wearing some god damn seat belts. Stunting is illegal, this is true, but then again, so is not wearing seat belts, both for this exact reason. I'm not laying any blame on anyone here, I just hope that both parties learn a valuable lesson.

 

And in a similar vein...
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Injured motorcyclists upgrades to fair condition
Albany Democrat-Herald

An Albany woman was in fair condition Monday after being seriously injured in a motorcycle accident near Springfield on Aug. 14. Peggy Sue Smith, 46, who suffered several broken ribs, a broken clavicle and a broken jaw, was transported to the Sacred Heart Medical Center intensive care unit in Eugene.

She was in critical condition as of last Friday. Smith and a group of four friends had been riding their motorcycles at less than 15 miles an hour along McKenzie View at 10 a.m. when several racing-style motorcycles aggressively passed them, according to her fellow rider and friend Gary Shepherd of Brownsville.

He said the group seemed to have "rattled" Smith a bit, with the result that her machine went off the road. The motorcycle, a blue 1989 Harley Davidson, went through a barbed wire fence and was damaged. Shepherd added that Smith, who received a motorcycle endorsement a few years ago, had only ridden a couple of times this year.
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Sorry, but this story's absolutely hilarious

How dare you sports bike riding bastards over take Harley riders at speeds reaching at least 30mph

 

I recognize that stunting on any public road is illegal and it's unfortunate that stunt riding may have played a part in this accident.

However, inattentive driving is also something that can be ticketed by law enforcement. How many of us have had to swerve to avoid someone talking on their cell phone or messing with the radio? How many riders every year get killed in accidents cause by lack of driver attention? This is my second season riding and I've been damn tempted to knock on someone's drivers window MORE THAN A FEW TIMES.

"Idiot" on motorcycle causes car accident = CNN covered news story

"Idiot" in car causes motorcycle accident = happends every day so its no longer worthy of a news story

It's an unfortunate accident and even more unfortunate for the sport about the step backwards it will probably take because of it.

 

see look at this, it wasn't even the bikes that caused it, it was the unatentive driver of the chase vehicle.

 

i have to say that people are not perfect and that i c both sides here, but im looking at the 16yr old in the explorer as the moron, the kid could have hit the brakes, he jerked the wheel ??? WTF? the bikes were his scapegoat and the kid knows it. i beleive hes the one who needs to own up to his wrong doing. if he made a mistake then so be it, but dont blame riders, ive never been riding and tryed to cut off any vehicle on perpose, that SUISIDE man! thats my view after reading. i feel sorry for all parties involved.

 

how can you ask me to feel sorry for some dumb a$$ who didn't put his seat belt on sorry just ain't happening i put my leg over my bike knowing damn good and well that i may meet my maker, they had a choice,and decided not to wear their seatbelts!! IMO they got what they asked for !!
my family knows i ride, and knows to watch out for bikes,

 

thats bull **** they seen the true life show on mtv and made a big deal out of it cuz they wanna ruin the sport now that they know about it but its happened a bunch of times and it was never on cnn until true life was aired

 

i like how people are so sure what side to take without even witnessing the event.

 

I'm calling If that was your mom, dad, sister, or brother, You wouldn't be saying **** like that. I agree that we all do some idiotic stuff on the roads. I'm definitely not innocent. But to say that "they got what they asked for" is one of the stupidest comments I've ever heard.

 

first off You don't know me and yes if it was my family i still would say just exactly what i just said, when you get in your car and not put your seat belt on your asking for trouble, just like i put my right leg over my sport bike and ride down the road with one wheel or at 120mph , it's a choice i have made, **** happens, and when it bites me in the a$$(cause riders who ride everyday know ) "IT'S NOT HOW I GO DOWN, BUT WHEN" and it's probly because i was doing something i wasn't soppose to be doing, oh and by the by your opinon about me is noted and i can careless that you thought it was stupid but you could have bigger and better words

 

^ I'm with this dude. Seatbelts anyone? Yeah, they actually have uses.

If they had had their belts on, they would have had minor injuries like the two smart people. They didn't, **** em. I also feel like hey...bout time a car fealt a motorcycles pain. I've seen too many of my friends, and my own brother, taken out by stupid ****s in cars being stupid ****s.

And as the one guy said, a car taking out a motorcyclist makes it on the news only to tell drivers to avoid the traffic block. A motorcyclist takes out a car...****, George Double-ya will make us part of the Axis of Evil.

 

Hey, we're all still blowing a bunch of BS around because no one knows exactly what happened. Does anyone know anymore info about it? Was there really a chase cam? Were they doing stunts when it happened? If you ask me, there's a **** load of questions to be asked still.

 

you've got to be kidding me. thats the dumbest thing i've ever heard. waa...waa...waa, CNN is trying to ruin the sport. waa...waa...waa, the man is bringing me down. quit trying to scapegoat some **** on mtv. it was more than likely just a combination of factors.

1) bikes were probably stunting down the freeway. that throws other drivers for a loop.
2) the chase car may have clipped the explorer.
3) the inexperience of the 16 year old may have caused him to freak out which, in turn, may have been the deciding factor of this wreck.
4) because of the lack of seatbelts, someone in a car acutally got hurt.

regardless of how it happened, it made CNN because of one issue:
Cars hit motorcycles all the time, its old news, but, how many times have you actually seen a motorcycle wax a freaking suburban? that's actually something interesting to report on.

 

Well said

 

they never mentioned the chase car "may have" clipped the explorer in the CNN story, I think someone added that later,,,if I swerved to miss a car, truck , moose or anything and ran into another vehicle causing it to crash, it would be my fault and my fault only,,,in this case the the "outlaw" bikers may have been the cause for the swerve so the police are looking for them,,,thats just junk,,,,,,,if the chase car hit the explorer then look for that car,,,,if the explorer swerved out of inexperience and fear, ticket him and move on,,,

best wishes to the family in the suburban,,,

 

you're right, the CNN story didnt mention that, but it was added in the story from the link at the top of this page, so I stuck it in to cover the bases.

 

well after reading mypost yesterday wow they do seem pretty harsh but i do tell it like it is,basicaly what i was tring to say was don't blame some one else for your own miss-hap, to say a motor cycle made me hit that guy is like saying a mouse rammed a bull and knocked him over, someone is at fault, its kinda like when a dog jumps out in front of you and you hit your brakes fast then the car behind you rear ends you, well they get the "failure to mantain speed " ticket,right, and i read the "Fallen Riders" section of the forum and i see people always saying "wear your gear" well i do when i ride so it's like this

wear your gear =put your seatbelt on

 

this will never end. Such bull-sh*t

 

like someone said, i don't know the whole story, but from what CNN wrote, it sounds to me like inexperience on the 16 year old's part and he swerved causing the wreck...his fault, cut and dry, that's how the law works. if someone hit him first then it's their fault, but it doesn't sound like that happened.

also, the suburban, it's a state law in missouri to wear a seatbelt (and if my memory recalls from being there a lot last year, a burban is still considered a car so yes you have to wear one). did those people without seatbelts get cited for that?