Motorcyclist crashes and falls
CTV has some striking video of a motorcyclist speeding on a ramp, hitting the side railing and flying over it. He didn’t die but he’s probably not feeling great this morning.
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Blork 14:34 on 2020-04-30 Permalink
“Speed may have been a factor…” Yeah. And dumbassery was most definitely a factor.
Alison Cummins 14:38 on 2020-04-30 Permalink
I love that the bike just kept going as if nothing had happened. Like a horse that goes under a low tree branch to scrape off its rider.
MarcG 14:59 on 2020-04-30 Permalink
They’re lucky they didn’t hit that sign. Does anyone have a psychological profile for these people? Death wish? Need attention? Some chemical imbalance that makes it hard for them to find excitement? I can’t relate.
Blork 15:12 on 2020-04-30 Permalink
Actually, if he had hit the sign he might be less injured because it would have ba-doinged him back onto the road instead of going over the edge. (I think those signs aren’t very rigid so there’s a high boing factor.)
Kate 15:17 on 2020-04-30 Permalink
If you keep watching, you’ll see one of the cops hop over the barrier not too far past the spot where the guy went over. So he must have hit hard, but he didn’t have too far to fall.
Alison Cummins 15:18 on 2020-04-30 Permalink
Yeah, need for stimulation seems to be there. Lots of young men get really antsy. I don’t begrudge it them: it takes all kinds. That’s why humans stated doing so well when we started living in larger groups and could pool our strengths.
Possibly also a reaction to confinement. And if someone’s taking their bike out for the first time in the spring they may not realize how out of shape they are.
Blork 15:32 on 2020-04-30 Permalink
Kate, where he went over it was high enough for there to be a lane passing under. But the second part of the video is from about 30-40 metres ahead, where the embankment comes up to the same level as the road he went flying off of. But were he went off was definitely farther back, over a road.
Blork 15:34 on 2020-04-30 Permalink
According to the article the guy had no license or registration for the bike, so this was higher on the dumbassery scale than just Covid-cabin fever.
Jack 17:07 on 2020-04-30 Permalink
I always crack up when motorcyclist complain about how much their insurance cost.
Kevin 22:50 on 2020-04-30 Permalink
No licence, unregistered bike. Jack it’s your taxes paying for his recovery, not the piddly $300 a year I spend insuring my motorcycle.
dwgs 07:53 on 2020-05-01 Permalink
My first thought was ‘stupid young guy’ too but in the report they say he’s 35. No licence, unregistered bike tells me that there’s a very good chance that he was inexperienced. I drive that ramp regularly and the curve on it is not well designed, it’s pretty sharp and the roadbed isn’t banked into the curve as you would expect. Changing lanes from the inside to the outside on any curve can be tricky as well. I’m also not convinced he was trying to cut the truck off, I think he went into the curve with too much speed coupled with inexperience and he just missed the turn. He’s lucky he wasn’t a half second later, he would have driven into the semi.`