Killed while waiting at a light!

[kirkemon]

  Close to my home:
https://ktla.com/2019/06/06/motorcyclist-struck-killed-while-waiting-at-red-light-in-north-hollywood-woman-detained/

[JC85]

Sad and spooky. This is why I always keep a sharp eye on my rear view, when waiting at a stoplight.

[Roebling3]

Just a few minutes ago, w/in a mile of the house, - semi rural area. A young woman was going in the opposite direction from me. W/fone in hand. She drove up a rounded earth knoll betwixt street and sidewalk and continued straight for another 40' until stopped by a telephone pole. The bag went off. She got out, w/fone in hand - at her ear, to survey the damage. The pole (old-wooden), was cut off clear through @ bumper height. Despite or due to a dead center hit both headlight buckets popped out of the fenders. Pole impression had to have squished the radiator around whatever small displacement engine was in there.  4:30pm. Lots of traffic within minutes. No apparent injuries. Except for when her brain re-engages with reality? Thoroughly disgusted I rode away. I use that roadway often.

It's sickening. I had hit the brakes hard, thinking she would swerve and I'd be in the way. 
Question: How close is the next dumbass to you? On any given day?  R3~

[Chuck in Indiana]

I dodged some brain dead bozo coming across the center line just an hour or so ago..

[Gliderjohn]

Very close call once years ago in Wichita. Stopped for a light but had left some room ahead of me. Heard hard braking behind me and just reacted by pulling ahead between lanes. When the car stopped it was a foot behind the car I had been behind. Almost always keep the clutch in with escape room at stops when around much traffic.
GliderJohn

[DougG]

Hi all,                               
Scary as hell.  Whenever I stop...sign, light, whatever I always stay in first gear and look around like someone is out there to do me harm.  If I see someone in my mirror behind me, I tap the brakes and watch for a reaction.  Stupid happens. 

Be well,
DougG

[Guzzistajohn]

Missouri adopted the stop and go law a couple of years ago. You get the stinkeye from people in cars, it's  kinda fun!   

[Moto]

Missouri adopted the stop and go law a couple of years ago. You get the stinkeye from people in cars, it's  kinda fun!   

What's that?

[Lannis]

  If I see someone in my mirror behind me, I tap the brakes and watch for a reaction.  Stupid happens. 

Be well,
DougG

Good luck with that, although there's no harm in trying.

These blind murderous maniacs smash into the back of huge yellow school buses and big red fire trucks with all their lights on.   A motorcycle .... ?

Lannis

[LBC Tenni]

Raging drug addicts who can also afford nice cars. One of many reasons to avoid that general area. A dangerous and unpredictable place.

[DougG]

Hi all,
You're right Dave...but it makes sense to take all available precautions and then stay in gear, pre-select an escape route and be ready to use it.  It really is us against them, and we are outweighed by a factor of at least six.

Be well,
DougG

[DaSwami]

Been rearended while sitting at a light, but not killed.  That's why when the light turns yellow I gun it....if I can avoid sitting at the head of line at a light I do it....

[Bud]

     Just this morning head on crash in front of my house. A neighbor/ client that lives two streets down pulled out to the 35mph road and established herself on her side of the road. She was on her way to pick up her ex-husband for chemo.  Man coming the other way crossed the yellow line and was heading at her in her lane. She tried to cross into his lane to avoid but cars hit head on on passenger sides. Man got out of car and said he was looking at his gps. Not sure if mounted or just another way of saying he was on his phone.
     Both ended up going in the ambulance and she had a broken arm. Man had no license, no insurance and no registration. That is all a misdemeanor in my great bankrupt state of Connecticut. Oh and I forgot, no green card.
     So now I hope that her uninsured motorist insurance will pick up most of the bill but she will be stuck with her deductible, an undervalued settlement on her car and an increase on her car insurance. Misdemeanor.
     And now who do you think paid for his ambulance ride and emergency service? When you got nothing you got nothing to loose I guess.

[twowheeladdict]

Today I left work (in the car) and a white camaro blew a stop sign and crossed right in front of me.  I didn't have to kick in the ABS, but I hit the brakes and the horn hoping to wake up whoever was behind the wheel. 

My sister and her husband were hit by an ATV last weekend while cruising down a country road. 

[Guzzistajohn]

What's that?

@ a red light make a full stop, if the coast is clear, haul ass!

[John Ulrich]

A few more reasons I've been selling off a bike a year.  Goldwing is on the block this year.

[Guzzistajohn]

A few more reasons I've been selling off a bike a year.  Goldwing is on the block this year.

Distracted driving has changed the sport dramatically. If I had to ride in the city, I wouldn’t have motorbikes

[Tom]

Last 2 killer accidents within 2 weeks.

1)  21 year old passed 5 cars at a clip.  Does a head on with County Fireman going to work at his station.  Leaves a 6 yr. daughter.  Offending driver will most likely be prosecuted for a negligent homicide rap.  The fireman had a big turn-out for him and the County Prosecutor is under pressure to prosecute because it wasn't an accident.  Electra Glide.  2 lane highway.

2)  Tourist from California does a left hand turn in front of rider going west to the ocean.  "I didn't see him."  Probably will be let off lightly.  He was on a Sporty.  4 lane boulevard.

I would be okay with both of them being tossed off a cliff.

 

[John Ulrich]

Doesn’t help when it’s a daily theme on the news and social pages.

[Bobic69]

I've been rear ended in my car waiting at a red light. That's why I always filter to the front on the bike so there are a few cars buffer.

[nc43bsa]

Back in '81 (IIRC) I was rear-ended on my Commando at the light in front of Mickey Gilley's honkytonk in Pasedena TX.  The driver of the pickup was 14 years old.

The Commando was written off by the insurance company, but I fixed it and rode it home to NC anyway.  The pickup had to be towed away because my elbow went through the radiator.

[Rough Edge racing]

Good luck with that, although there's no harm in trying.

These blind murderous maniacs smash into the back of huge yellow school buses and big red fire trucks with all their lights on.   A motorcycle .... ?

Lannis

Ha, in the late 70's construction was slow so I worked part time doing suspension work at a school bus garage....Cars were running into school buses back then. Big yellow things with red flashing lights.."I didn't see the bus".................
   Very few traffic lights were I normally ride.On occasions when I ride into the city it's side roads all the way..I NEVER make a left turn in a high traffic situation..

[kballowe]

We got rear-ended at a stop light in 2018.  The light was red and we were stopped, as was the car behind us.  The light turned green and the car behind us just mashed the accelerator.  That sorta sling-shotted us forward, and down we went.  Then he hit us again and some people ran up and grabbed the car gear shift.  He took off but there was a cop that saw him.

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fast forward..... we just got back in town from a week motorcycle vacation to the Smoky Mountains. 

It was lunch time on the 4th of July on a rural Missouri road with clear skies and sparse traffic that was moving approx 55 mph.  No one speeding because the Police were keeping an eye out.

We're 2-up,  150 feet behind a car, when a car from the opposite direction pulls directly into the path of the car in front of me.  Words cannot describe it.  We escaped injury by a foor and a half

Went back the next day and measured the skid mark from the bike at 103 feet.
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