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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: lucydad on August 30, 2015, 07:24:10 PM
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All,
Son of very close friend of my wife. And my wife had the young man in Sunday School when he was in junior high. My wife saw his mother today at church, but can't make funeral due to teaching church pre-school, funeral is Thursday here in Sugar Land.
http://www.click2houston.com/news/motorcyclist-killed-in-wreck-on-north-freeway/34991440
Want to know why I won't go to the World Guzzi celebration in Houston? Evening, traffic, Saturday, and terrible location for congestion and lethal intersections between here and there.
Sheesh....
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I feel for the family and your wife. As bad as Houston traffic may be, speeding is not a good mix. Not to make light of it, but sliding 150 ft. w/o a helmet is a cocktail for head injury. I'm sorry for this outcome and for his being in a hurry. Condolences to his family.
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Condolences to all.
Spud
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I'm sorry to hear if the tragedy.
But KD is right and I'll go further and outright say this has nothing to do with traffic.
According to what little we get from the report he was speeding, without a helmet, and hit the back of a truck. Three strikes that were all easily avoidable and any one might have made a difference.
If the area is full of traffic that just makes each of those poor choices even worse.
I say this having ridden plenty in some of the worst traffic in this nation including: NYC, Philly, DC, as well as occasions in LA and Atlanta. You don't have to ride like a maniac around traffic, you can stay in the slow lanes and slow everything down that happens around you. Hell, if the traffic is that bad you're probably already at much more manageable (slow) speeds in the first place.