In this case the rider and his lawyer should be pushed off the cliff.....

What a terrible canard the tort bar is. Remember that when you vote.

The fact that he claimed his passing another rider was what caused the crash until the video footage surfaced should be enough to shred any credibility the guy has left.

Why are you being so ridiculous? First you are talking about cinder blocks, now you are talking about 100's of dumpsters and bulldozers. If you have nothing to add to the discussion, you don't have to post anything.

The more I look at this, the more I think the guy crashed on purpose for the payday.

i'm with you.

i can barely inject myself with a needle. i couldnt plan my snapped FEMUR for any payday. you cannot calculate the long term implications..hell, a blood clot could ruin everything.

we thinking he was hoping for a more gentle get-off?

No, this wasn't planned. He crashed, because of his own stupidity and while recovering decided to try and collect a big fat check.

What does that have to do with anything?

His lawyer's record included this nugget taken from the article on page 1:

lawyer named Sarah London, who has a record of exacting big payments from powerful opponents. (She got a $3 million judgment from RJ Reynolds Tobacco for the family of a Florida smoker who died of lung cancer.)

I would imagine that verdict was given over the label warnings on cigarette packs, which would be similar to the track waiver.

This is exactly why I don't practice in the tort law arena. When you know what you are getting yourself into but do it anyway and blame someone else, your payday should be zero and a swift kick in the behind.

He was not on a race bike. I have seen people that have done all sorts of things for money, cut off digits, shoot themselves all sorts of things. I would cut off my thumb to get disability, shoot myself or crash a motor vehicle on purpose. Just because I would not do so, it does not mean I don't believe someone else would not.

What makes you think that just because you would not be able to do it, no one else could? How do you know? Have you asked these other people if they would do it to cash in for millions of dollars and save their failing business? People have been murdered over a little bit of money, you do realize that, right?

Jalopnik ran a story on this today. Here is a quote from Kim in a Lit Motors memo:

On a personal note, I have difficult news that I wanted to share with the Lit Motors community. Recently, I was involved in a motorcycle track accident. The accident was a high speed (75-80 m.p.h.) collision with a misplaced sandbag as I came off the track. Though I broke both my legs, very thankfully, I did not suffer any brain or spinal damage.

We all know motorcycles are dangerous and not for everyone. In retrospect, if I had been driving a C-1 in that collision I would have been safer and likely incurred far fewer injuries. This event has further galvanized my dedication to bringing the C-1 to market. Creating a safer ride for millions of people and making dangerous two-wheeled vehicles with no gyroscopes a thing of the past. I have decided not to return to the track unless it is with an AEV C-1 platform with similar performance and greatly increased safety.

https://jalopnik.com/this-track-day-crash-lawsuit-could-be-bad-news-for-trac-1824270453

Greg all(wo)man bragged about how he shot himself in the foot to keep from serving in the military. he and his friends even planned it out and drew a target on his shoe so he'd miss the bone and wouldn't do much permanent damage.
I'm surprised a coward would have the guts to do that.

Peter, I would not say it if I did not think it possible, even likely. Why do you find it so hard to believe? Again, what makes you think that just because you would not be able to do it, no one else could? He was not really gong that fast. Pretty much everything he has said and done since certainly makes it sound plausible.

I'm frankly not grasping it either. I went off on the street at lower speed and was almost a permanent quad. Your cervical spine is a fragile thing, and anyone who has tracked bikes knows that.

BTW. 15 mill for bilateral fractured femurs? Man, I shoulda been a Cali PI atty (ducking as I say that).

Video of an airborne big willow T8 off hitting the wall.
No where there I'd care to go off.

https://youtu.be/PuVgkSIuouY

You need to go easy on the guy you are arguing with, he's not very bright. There is no way that the guy crashed into the sandbag on purpose @ 70mph, that would take the balls and skill of a stuntman and not even they would do something that would cause an endo at that speed on a bike. There are things that you just cannot force your body to do unless you are committing suicide.

The comparison to shooting yourself in the foot is a non-sequitur. There is exactly zero chance of winding up a quadriplegic or dead from shooting one's self in the foot. It would be 1000 times easier than crashing a motorcycle intentionally at speed.

I think that the real issue of this story has to do w the power of waivers like the one the guy signed. Most waivers are not worth the toilet paper they are written on and mostly exist to fool unsophisticated people into thinking that they have signed away their legal rights. I hate to say it but he might have a case regarding the hazard of the sandbag. It sucks.

And he never shies away from proving it time and again. :)

Perhaps?? You don't think he's trying to cash in big time??? And you argue like an idiot that there's no way he would have deliberately crashed??