razormac214
Junior Member
So I am no longer a proud owner of my beautiful FZ6 since it was totaled out this past Sunday. I wish I could sit here and go through the details of what happened and offer advice on how to avoid what happened to me, but my head smacking into the pavement has erased has completely erased the few hours of my life around the accident. Like always I was wearing my helmet, leather jacket and gloves, and riding shoes. I have been thankful everyday for that gear and the protection it provided, I truly do not know what would've happened to me without it.
There were only two witnesses, but not even they saw what happened as they were turned away from the road until they heard the crashing sounds. All they did see was that there was a truck speeding off from the scene. I will never know what happened for sure but I can tell you what my gut is telling me. Since I was making a right-hand turn off of one highway onto another one would assume that if speed or road debris caused the crash then all of the damage and injuries would be on the right side, but all of the damage was down the left side and all the major injuries occurred on my left side. So everything is telling me that something caused me to dodge back to the left too quickly for myself or the bike to handle. The direction that the truck would have been coming from has a very sharp curve right before the point where they would have gotten to where I was coming onto the road. So as I was saying the only people who can tell me what happened did not stick around to share the knowledge, but my gut feeling is that they crossed the center line just in time to cause me to dodge to the left. All I can say is that I am much better shape than I would've been if I had gone into the front of that truck
. I went to take pictures of the bike at the yard to post on here but when I got there right before they took the bike away for good the batteries in my camera were dead :disapprove: .
But what I can post were the last shots taken of me and the bike in action. These were taken just hours before the crash by the guys at RidePics.net.
There were only two witnesses, but not even they saw what happened as they were turned away from the road until they heard the crashing sounds. All they did see was that there was a truck speeding off from the scene. I will never know what happened for sure but I can tell you what my gut is telling me. Since I was making a right-hand turn off of one highway onto another one would assume that if speed or road debris caused the crash then all of the damage and injuries would be on the right side, but all of the damage was down the left side and all the major injuries occurred on my left side. So everything is telling me that something caused me to dodge back to the left too quickly for myself or the bike to handle. The direction that the truck would have been coming from has a very sharp curve right before the point where they would have gotten to where I was coming onto the road. So as I was saying the only people who can tell me what happened did not stick around to share the knowledge, but my gut feeling is that they crossed the center line just in time to cause me to dodge to the left. All I can say is that I am much better shape than I would've been if I had gone into the front of that truck
. I went to take pictures of the bike at the yard to post on here but when I got there right before they took the bike away for good the batteries in my camera were dead :disapprove: . But what I can post were the last shots taken of me and the bike in action. These were taken just hours before the crash by the guys at RidePics.net.
