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Idiot Driver, you wont believe this
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Edgar Ponce was killed in that accident.
 MEXICO CITY (Hollywood Reporter) - Mexican television actor Edgar Ponce died Thursday after a car plowed into a motorcycle he was riding during the unauthorized filming of an advertisement. Ponce, who has appeared on numerous telenovelas, died early Thursday morning in a Mexico City hospital; three other actors, also riding motorcycles at the time, sustained injuries. The accident occurred during the filming of an advertisement for "Solo Para Mujeres" (For Women Only), a live male striptease show. The ad was to air on Televisa variety show "No Manches." According to a statement released from the Mexico City police department, the shoot took place on a main artery in southern Mexico City. The police report said a speeding vehicle slammed into a caravan of moving motorcycles used for the plug. Producer Sergio Mayer "did not request police assistance" for the filming, the department said. A spokesman at Mexico City's attorney general's office said the driver had alcohol on his breath yet it still hasn't been determined if he had passed the legal limit. He added that the driver and the producer could be held responsible for the actor's death. Mayer acknowledged at a Thursday press conference that he did not have permission to film and said that Televisa had nothing to do with the production. Televisa declined comment.
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06-11-2005, 09:36 PM
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I was hit Monday night in a similar fashion ; atleast that what the police report and witnesses tell me. Thank God for Arai helments and his grace. I hate this man or any other rider losses his or her live do to anothers insane actions. Thanks for sharing this with us. Now I'll lick my wounds and be grateful I only have to replace my bike.
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My father was a career Optomotrist. He would tell me all the time about different patients (no names) and the visual impairments they were navigating the world with. It's made me hyper-aware of people with "no depth-of-field" problems, and that's during the daylight. This was at night, riders properly staggered, possibly caused a visual "illusion" for the cage driver.
Another reason I don't ride at night unless absolutely necessary. Certainly a terrible loss. I wonder if helmets would have made much of a difference seeing how airborne he became.
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06-12-2005, 05:28 AM
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I would't be here if not for the helment, also I would be chinless and toothless if I had not been wearing a full coverage hat. This whole scene is tragic. I 'am curious to know how the law in Mexico will handle this one? DRINKING and DRIVING OR RIDING don't mix. Sorry for everyones loss that was close to Edgar Ponce.
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06-12-2005, 08:25 AM
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I presume the rider that went up and over the car was Edgar Ponce, and he had no helmet on? I think he'd be alive, like Dee, if he had one on. Really sad.
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