I really hate to hear that, that happened 3 times last year, at the exact same spot here in my town (TN). whats bad is its in town with a 35 mph speed limit. Bikes stopped at a red light and i know 2 of them women drives in SUV's just got em. Its so sad that you have to watch everyone else on the road and cant really enjoy as much as we 2 wheel riders should be able too.
The video (thank God!) isn't graphic, just hard to swallow. The reporters there are saying 5 dead and 10 bikes involved. There were two helicopters waiting for patients.
That driver will pay dearly but nothing the law can do to him will outweigh the guilt he will suffer for the rest of his life. I'm not saying he deserves any sympathy but he sure deserves a life in prison where he cannot possibly drive another vehicle again.
News like this, shouldn't be a problem passsing that lane splitting bill in Arizona anymore.
Remember, we have no crumple zones.
Not sure how easliy it would have been able to manuever out of the way when you're in a group, but whenever I stop behind a vehicle at a red light, I am always either off to one side of the lane just in a case I need to split between vehicles.
I never stop directly behind the center of the vehicle, but you see so many riders continue to do so. But I guarantee you come out of my class, you won't.
I think for now on, I'm stopping behind and to the right or left of the car in front of me -- ready to lane split if I see something coming from behind.
Dreadful accident, and so unexpected, RIP. And just read in my local paper an off-duty policeman from a nearby town killed last week on a road half a mile up the road from me, no other vehicles involved, daylight, good conditions, riding a Yamaha cruiser...all makes me ride that bit more defensively.
My thoughts exactly, what a senseless A'hole the driver is. Will he get the mandatory slap on the wrist and still be able to drive? Claiming a ban will destroy his livelihood.
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