Accident, motorcycle, fatal

March 23, 2026, 04:33 PM

6guns

A naive question to the bikers here. I owned a bike for years, but rode very conservatively. How does something like this happen? Did he not see the stopped car? Or saw it too late? Because of his speed? His buddy was in the other lane...was he trying to pass him? Was he drunk or high? I know these are all speculative and silly? questions, but the stupidity just amazes me and it's hard for me to relate to.

March 23, 2026, 04:43 PM

sigmonkey

Light grey car, no taillights in his lane approaching a green light, he may not have perceived the car.

At those speeds, time takes on some weird characteristics, and somethings seem faster and others seem slower. Some things appear sharp and clear and other things take a knee.

It's not always the same either.

You get in a zone, and if you have good skills, reflexes and muscle memory, you may be faster in some areas and have fine motor skill control, or you may perceive you do and you don't.

Some days at the track I was wicked, and other times, I put the car on the trailer early, wither by elimination, or by realizing that I was off and simply burning fuel and wasting the car.

I have never driven a motorcycle at the speeds being realized today.

They appear to be running the same speed, and he had the other bike by about 6-8 inches.

March 23, 2026, 04:44 PM

fischtown7

Anybody else notice the car he hit did not appear to have any brake lights or lights other than the blinker. He might not have ever even seen it.

March 23, 2026, 04:58 PM

6guns

monkey, thanks for your thoughts. The incident is mind boggling.

March 23, 2026, 05:15 PM

sigmonkey

And running up on an intersection at that speed. That's far beyond the stupid they were already stupiding...

March 23, 2026, 05:26 PM

.38supersig

To be fair, at 0:17 it shows him in the lead.

At 0:18 it shows that he got passed.

At least they can't charge him for running the light.

LOSER!

March 23, 2026, 05:27 PM

6guns

Damn stupid! Such a waste...

March 23, 2026, 05:30 PM

YooperSigs

My take is that if he saw the car at all, it was at a point where he was not able do anything about it. Any type of emergency action at that speed could have caused a loss of control and a crash. I once took a spin on a friends Hayabusa. Even though I had ridden since I was 13, it only took one trip to tell me that my skills were not adequate for that bike. Watch some YouTube videos of the Isle of Man TT for some insight on what it takes to ride at that level.

March 23, 2026, 05:33 PM

RichardC

Target fixation.

He looked at the threat, not where be wanted to go.

March 23, 2026, 05:43 PM

Chowser

At least his friend came back to check on him.

This is another reason why I still stop cars at night to tell them to turn their lights on. They think their lights are on because their DRLs are on.

March 23, 2026, 05:48 PM

two-two-niner-romeo

quote:
Originally posted by Georgeair:
Cue Leonard McCoy

He's dead, Jim

March 23, 2026, 05:57 PM

trapper189

quote:
Originally posted by RichardC:
Target fixation.

He looked at the threat, not where be wanted to go.

I don't believe so because soundwise there is no indication he backed off the throttle which says he failed to see the vehicle before his window to react closed.

Could be as simple as not switching to a clear visor at night.

Could be as complicated as spending his $10 attention budget, thank you Keith Code, on things other what was in front of him. The car that pulls up a few seconds after the crash in the right lane for example. No doubt they went screaming past him, maybe they went around him as they did and didn't see the next car.

March 23, 2026, 06:11 PM

lyman

quote:
Originally posted by Mustang-PaPa:
Damn he never knew what he hit.

I was in my girlfriend’s driveway one beautiful Sunday afternoon. Her parents home was the first house on a side street to the main road going through our small west Texas town.
A couple of cars were stopped in the road waiting on a car to pass so the first car could turn left. The car passed and the stopped car turned left when a guy who jumped on a friends bike for a ride came hauling ass up behind them and couldn’t stop in time and instead of going to the right into the ditch he went left into oncoming traffic and hit the side of the turning car going about 35mph. The bike was embedded into the side of the car and the rider went flying over the car and landed in the ditch. His drunk ass got up and walked away without a scratch.
That was probably 50 years ago now and I can still remember seeing him flying through the air and landing in the ditch.

worked with a couple guys that had crotch rockets,
they thought they were invincible,
both dropped bikes at an intersection avoiding accidents, and had a lot of road rash, but nothing broken but the bike,

when I was a kid, a guy passed us on a 4 lane rd, came back in front of the van dad was driving, managed to hit the curb, rolled the bike over in the grass and he kept going when the bike hit the side street, until his helmet his the curb on the other side of the street,

DRT,

March 23, 2026, 06:36 PM

FrankMoses

Oh look Boris, the wodka didn’t break!

March 23, 2026, 06:44 PM

PGT

Looks like the car he hit didn’t have functional brakelights. Silver car and no lights probably blended in to that road and green lights above obscured it further.

Lighting at night even at moderate speeds can play tricks on your eyes.

(No excuse for street racing of course)

March 23, 2026, 06:56 PM

darthfuster

YOU CAN’T PARK THERE!!!

March 23, 2026, 06:58 PM

Nismo

quote:
Originally posted by PGT:
Looks like the car he hit didn’t have functional brakelights. Silver car and no lights probably blended in to that road and green lights above obscured it further.

Lighting at night even at moderate speeds can play tricks on your eyes.

(No excuse for street racing of course)

Full tuck looking through a dirty/tinted windscreen, and possibly an equally dirty/tinted face shield. Can't see shit.