Are you as horrified as I with the young people being slaughtered on the highway in motorcycle accidents?

[Bricealan]

Another young person killed in this crash

I dont' think the horror of this kind of thing is as glaring to us up until it happens to someone we know. The real horror is brought home to us in glaring detail when you see the broken, destroyed body either in a hospital emergency room or worse yet in a coffin at the funeral home.

As some of you already know, (Coach and Sage2021) I recently "lost" a very young lady friend (she just turned 21) in a single vehicle crash in Seal Beach, California. She has not yet died, but she is so horribly injured, I do not expect her to ever be restored to the young woman I once knew and very much admired.

To my further horror, her accident was fueled and probably caused by alcohol, which seems to play a part in many of these kinds of incidents. I say "incidents", because they are not truly 'accidents,' because alcohol plays a large part in the cause because it alters our judgment, and allows us to make decisions we would ordinarily not make.

Up until recently, I was an avid cyclist, and used to ride Pacific Coast Highway from Huntington Beach to Newport Coast to Pelican Hill, and one time to Laguna Beach and back. I gave that up after seeing a fatal cycle accident, and myself being hospitalized over a weekend with a severe leg injury after being thrown off the bike, face first onto the pavement. The accident could have ended my life had I landed on my head and broken my neck or severed my spine.

That incident brought home to me the danger of riding anything, bicycle or large motorcycle in such a danger place as Pacific Coast Highway. I was basically 'naked' with only a cycling helmet protecting me from a fatal injury, with my entire body exposed to a horrific injury, that would be unavoidable in a collision with another vehicle.

In one such incident, I accidentally hit an SUV in the rear bumper while trying to avoid the rear end when they stopped quickly at a lighted intersection at Beach Blvd and PCH.

All this is to say, that a two wheeled vehicle is so very vulnerable and at risk, no matter how careful a rider can be, and to be hit by a drunken or otherwise impaired driver may often be fatal or life altering.

The highway slaughter is not, as we all know, limited to motorcycles, and I recently read of a Cyber Truck crashing and catching fire, after jumping a curb, at high speed and hitting a wall and tree, burning to death three of the 19 year old kids inside with one badly burned survivor.

Please be careful my friends over the upcoming dangerous holidays and don't become a victim of highway slaughter on our streets and highways.

Bruce

[Texaskid1]

I am sorry for your loss.

I rode a motorcycle once and only once in my lifetime. Five minutes was enough for me.

Where I live I see all these young dudes riding around with no helmet and I think how easily they could die even at low speeds. People don't seem to realize how even a slight blow to your head at say 5 mph against pavement could put you six feet under.

I may be a crazy middle aged dude but a death wish I have not.

[Bricealan]

@Texaskid1. I don’t think I can bear to go to the hospital to see this pretty young woman crippled as terribly as she is. She has lost part of her left leg below the knee, her left kidney had to be removed because so badly damaged, her left arm is broken. She is paralyzed on her left side. I am told her head was shaved almost all the way around because of head injury and I don’t think I could bear to see her like that and I know you understand how I feel terrible terrible tragedy for a 21-year-old woman Thank you for your response, sir

[sage2021]

What scares me in when we are driving on the freeway and a motorcycle goes in between cars driving really fast.
If just one car would decide to switch lanes and didn't see him racing up on them he would be toast and cause a horrific accident on the freeway

[sage2021]

Thank you for the MHO 🙂🧁🌷

[ohsheeT]

I raced dirt bikes for many many years I am flown off cliffs I have raced in trees rocks sagebrush dirt fencing Barb wire dreams

And the high that I would get from it would just flying through the air as fast as you possibly can flying through the rocks and trees and sagebrushes fast as you possibly can looking 500 yards ahead of you because it comes up within a second knowing what to do in that moment that you just seen 500 yards back is crucial you have to be able to take it on. Be prepared and not doubt yourself if that moment arrives more throttle more speed keep your feet on the pegs hold on tight and twist your throttle hand
Pull up the front tire jump the whole bike whatever it takes to get through it and then more throttle .

It's the most beautiful feeling the most high high and highs and then either you have seven more laps or you have 400 more miles to go just like that.

The best part about it and the only reason why anybody can do it it's because there's no other vehicles on the road that you have to watch out for or they have to watch out for you you're dressed in leathers boots gloves gloves shoulder pads kidney pills goggles helmets


I love bikes motorcycles
I love racing
I have probably had 8 or 9 dirt bikes

I've had one street bike I had it for about 2 hours

20 minutes after I bought it
I parked it and never got back on it
I'm not disciplined enough to ever get on the street bike
I love the power too much I love that throttle I love to speed I love the excitement I love doing everything to the street bike can do

I also love my life

I sold the bike because I was not disciplined enough nor mature enough nor smart enough to ride on the street with other cars I might see where I'm going but they don't know which way I'm going they don't know what I'm doing especially if I'm doing the wrong thing

Will you have the street bike you can't write it the way you write a dirt bike and even then you have to still watch out for cars vehicles on coming to everything and 50 to 60% of those people don't even see you

I'm a very good rider and very cautious
When you're in doubt of a situation give it more throttle pull yourself out of it you have to take it on this s in the dirt you can do the exact same thing on the street. Thing is with the street is you have moving 3 to 4

[exitseven]

When I met my future wife I was in the process of buying a motorcycle. My wife is a Physical therapist and hasseen plenty of guys all busted up from motorcycle accidents. She told me up front that if I bought a bike it would be a deal breaker.

[Quigly]

If we had better public transits courts could take drivers licenses away for life for drinking and driving. Being a society totally dependent on cars has a steep price tag. Our DMV's hand out drivers licenses to many people that should never have one. People with mental illnesses, people with medical conditions, Alcoholics. They all get drivers licenses since we are such a car dependent society.

[MisfitsLover92]

Yes that is horrible! Happened to someone I know, I'm never going to let my kids ride those da** things!

[Jennz6]

Eww I didn’t want to see that

[ilkeerol28]

Antidote.