http://www.latimes.com/local/l...-20170412-story.html

A motorcycle rider has been decapitated in a freak accident in San Bernardino.

Authorities say 27-year-old Fabian Zepeda was killed Tuesday morning when he drove into a wire stretched across a road from a snapped utility pole.

Police told the Riverside Press-Enterprise that minutes earlier, a driver had lost control of a Ford Taurus, which hit a mailbox and ran across a lawn.

Coroner's officials say the car then hit a wooden telephone pole that snapped in half, and a wire fell across Macy Street.

Zepeda drove into it and was beheaded.

Police say the Taurus driver didn't appear to be intoxicated and wasn't immediately arrested, pending further investigation.

awful

Good Lord. Sounds like a scene from "Final Destination."

Damn, and just 27 yr old. Wonder if he had a family. At least it was quick and done.

Talk about bad luck and long odds.
If the wire would of been hanging a foot lower and caught the handlebars or a foot higher and maybe clipped his helmet he might have lived.

Man you get up in the morning and you just never know whats coming your way, for better or worse, or way worse.

What an awful thing to happen. We just got reminded, life is uncertain.

Wow! What a freak accident... RIP young man.

No matter how careful you may be, dangers can lurk anywhere. Far too young.

Reminded me of another...6 years ago, during a heavy storm, and only 2 blocks away from my house, a motorcyclist died when a tree uprooted and fell on him. He was a couple blocks from home.

Wow, talk about bad timing or wrong place wrong time. Sympathy to his family.

Prayers for Fabian...

... horrible.

Prayers for his family ...

Just after sunrise, I was cruising a rural lane on my beat when I saw a brand new Sportster lying in the ditch. A short distance from the bike was the biker, dead. No skid marks. Perfect weather. Good roadway. Little traffic.
It was a mystery until I saw a small bit of brown fur stuck to the headlight. A soccer field was next to the crash site and lying on the field was a dead Whitetail Deer.
Mystery solved. Deer strike.

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
Just after sunrise, I was cruising a rural lane on my beat when I saw a brand new Sportster lying in the ditch. A short distance from the bike was the biker, dead. No skid marks. Perfect weather. Good roadway. Little traffic.
It was a mystery until I saw a small bit of brown fur stuck to the headlight. A soccer field was next to the crash site and lying on the field was a dead Whitetail Deer.
Mystery solved. Deer strike.

I had a very similar experience, doing a similar job.

I'm in the Cascade Mountains, go around a turn in the highway and see a black Sportster laying on the side of the highway, in about 1ft of water. It still had steam rolling off the engine.

I found the rider, sitting on his butt, all disheveled and scuffed up, about a hundred yards down the highway.


I asked if he was ok, and he looked up, laughed, and in a heavy Russian accent said " I go very very fast yaa" "road wet, too fast, not so good"

When I saw the thread title, I thought it was going to be a story about someone deliberately stretching a wire across the road. Not that the outcome is any better, but at least it was an accident instead of intentional.

Wow, sounds like the opening scene to a 'Supernatural' episode.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Good Lord. Sounds like a scene from "Final Destination."

Actually a scene from the Counselor, although in hatfilm it was intentionally done.

Very sad.

That is horrible, and more than a bit chilling. When I was kid I remember a comic book that stuck with me - was "weird tales" type about a WWI motorcycle messenger on a Harley that had the same thing happen, but continued with his mission despite losing the head. That story gave nightmares for a long time so this story seems especially gruesome and sad.

Back in about 1986 a guy I worked with, who I knew pretty good, was riding his Gold Wing right a dark. He did not see a farmer who pulled out in front of him on his tractor, pulling a farm wagon.
My friend drove up under the back of the wagon and the bed decapitated him.
That guy told me one day, Don't wear denim pants while driving a motorcycle. He said, when I did, and laid my bike down, I slide down the road for quite a ways, then I picked denim out of my hide for a long painful time....wear leather pants.

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Originally posted by MNSIG:
When I saw the thread title, I thought it was going to be a story about someone deliberately stretching a wire across the road.

The word “stretched” in the title does give that impression of deliberate action.

You'd be amazed at what appears in front of motorcyclists and tries to kill us.

For me it was a 1978 Mercury Marquis.

Suddenly there. Wham!

Faster than that even.