Police probe scooter-motorcycle deaths

[alans1100]

A reminder for us on corners and not just intersections.

http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2012/04/23/409911_gold-coast-news.html

[Biggles]

So it's not just the twenty-somethings who are a hazard, the guy in that major prang was 40.

A mate was put in hospital after a head-on with a bike that crossed the centre-line across the top of Mt Mee (between the lookout and Campbell's Pocket Road).  Unobstructed view, 60 kph zone!

Not a lot you can do when someone is in your lane coming at you, I guess.  Just don't be the one on the wrong side of the road.

Like this Kwaka's rider



that hit this bullbar (on the jinker in the above pic) on the Buckets Way:



The rider jumped off just before the collision and only got these injuries:
-Fractured right ankle.
-Broken right toe.
-Broken right collar bone.
-Shattered right wrist.
-Shattered right humerus.
-Soft tissue damage left & right.

[Shiney]

-Fractured right ankle.
-Broken right toe.
-Broken right collar bone.
-Shattered right wrist.
-Shattered right humerus.
-Soft tissue damage left & right.

That is a very lucky guy

[Skip]

A timely reminder that riding a motorcycle isn't about how fast you can ride it. It's just about riding it. Take care.
Skip.

[alans1100]

Rather than a new topic I put it here as it is a related issue.

We went for a shopping trip today over to Port Pirie. Whilst there some asked had we come down from Port Augusta as there had been a Motorcycle/car accident (error of judgement I say) near Mambray Creek. We'd come from the east, not the north anyway.

A motorcyclist has died following a crash with a car towing a caravan on National Highway One, near Mambray Creek in South Australia's mid-north, Friday morning.

From news link.......http://au.news.yahoo.com/sa/latest/a/-/article/13538491/motorcyclist-dies-in-mambray-creek-crash/

[Biggles]

Good grief- how do two motorcycles travelling behind a caravan crash into the back of it!?

First guess is the car and van stopped quickly and the bikes were too close behind to stop. 
Sounds avoidable, but of course, I wasn't there to know.   

[alans1100]

Depends on what happened and where.

The only logical thing was a car pulling out of a parking bay and didn't see the bikes. With traffic coming the other was there was no where else to go. That's only a guess.

This where it happened but no details has yet.

http://g.co/maps/jy3cw

[Whizz]

Before coming to QLD (10+ years ago ) I used to live in Adelaide and the roads up into the Adelaide Hills were notorious for dumb boy-racers roaring up through the windey, bendy sections. The majority of the bends were so tight that the only way to get round them at the ludicrous speeds these kids used to do was to cross the centre line, with the completely predictable results, crashes...lots of them, multiple serious injuries...lots and of them, and a significant number of deaths...far too many!

It got so bad that cage drivers started to avoid certain sections of road because they feared having a bike embedded in their bonnets, I know there were sections of the roads that I wouldn't use at any time Saturday or Sunday. I do not blame the SA Government in any way for restricting the speed on these sections of road it was about all they could do to try to stop the idiotic section of the riding community from bringing the whole lot of us into disrepute. They tried flooding the roads with cops every weekend but the lunatics still killed themselves.

Now I am NOT saying that this is what happened in here, I wasn't there so I don't know, but it can and does happen, so we need to be vigilant and watch out for loons no matter what their preferred means of transport.

Cheers
Whizz
 
 

[Biggles]

The following video has all the elements that spell disaster:
Wet road.
Steady rain.
Steady traffic.
Winding road.
Competitive riding mates...

We don't ride like this, but we could be the guy coming the opposite direction 

Fatal Motorcycle Accident