DOA upon my arrival

[Rikao4]

my morning comm. at 0 still dark thirty...
he blew by me at 100+ easy...(bike)
then I saw his lights go out..
found bits of him tangled in the guardrail wires..
roads wet + foggy...

Rika

[porsche4life]

Hard to feel sorry for those geniuses....

[GH85Carrera]

Darwin strikes again.

[slakjaw]

That sucks. I am sorry you had to see that.

[crustychief]

Originally Posted by slakjaw

That sucks. I am sorry you had to see that.

Precisely.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by slakjaw

That sucks. I am sorry you had to see that.

Ditto

[vash]

ouch.

when he went by, did he look in control? sucks to have to see that. you were the first to the scene?

[Rikao4]

yes..
no to control..
he was reckless about self & others..
stupid.. nothing more..
I remember WTF and 'that won't end well'
and at that speed..
he maybe had time for one..
'oh ****..'

Rika

[Superman]

Sorry you had to see that, Rika.

[Rikao4]

seen worse..
glad I'm still not used to it..
feel for the folks answering that door..
I can't call it an accident..
that run was plain suicidal..

Rika

[Joe Bob]

Organ donor.....

[Jeff Higgins]

Jeezus - what a way to start a day. What on earth could he have been thinking?

Gotta wonder about his family. Someone out there lost a husband, brother, son, uncle... whatever. How sad. Our toys can bite back in the blink of an eye, especially when we behave foolishly with them.

[azasadny]

Sorry about that. I was a paramedic for almost 9 years and was 1st responder at many accidents, it was never pretty or easy to forget...

[Shaun @ Tru6]

I'm glad, you, personally, the right person, got to see that, and pass it along. might save someone else's life.

[ghost1001]

A similar experience on the NJ parkway finally convinced me to never ride a bike again....weaving through traffic at 4pm on ANY road in NJ is a really bad idea.

[Hugh R]

MMarsh from the Board posted this a while back. He is an LA County Deputy Sheriff who rides a bike. The accident was a few blocks from my house. This was a kid on a Ninja bike going in excess of 100 mph. The girl in the car wasn't seriously hurt. It sucks, the bike looses every single time.

[Tobra]

Rika, the good samaritan law does not apply to you

Originally Posted by Joe Bob

Organ donor.....

nope, they will be too beat up

[Rikao4]

saw,stopped,
first on the site..
had my aid-bag out..
there was nothing I could do..
divider is made up of steel cables...
parts of him on one side..
leg & arm on the other..

Rika

[Tobra]

My wife is good at that sort of stuff, does just the right thing, right now, while the other Hell's Angels are puking from the sight of it. I asked her about it one time when she was telling me about some kid burned up they brought in from a house fire.

"I am good at it and someone has to do it."

Only time I can remember her getting rattled was when they brought in a woman who was the spitting image of her grandmother bleeding out of her ears and nose that some meth head killed with his van. Granny #2 in two pieces in another ambulance, transected at the waist.

I don't ever want to see something like that.

[vash]

on a fishing trip..we were rolling up on an accident. some lady got tossed in a roll over. we scrambled to find her. my bro and i found her first. she was dead. he gently poked her beaten face..and it was spongy!! her face was broken. it was ugly. she got thrown very far. i almost vomited.

in my neighborhood back in texas. i lived near the EP airport. one intersection saw alot of bigrig traffic. (airways, for you locals). the trucks would destroy that intersection, and it would undulate regularly. some idiot in a sportbike came around the corner FLYING! he hit the imperfect pavement and lost it. he slid into a parking lot..full leathers (for safety) and hit a Wienersnitzel that was getting some remodeling done. he would have survived, except a piece of rebar stabbed through his head. i bet he rolled/slid 200 yards. it was amazing.