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Motorcycle rider beheaded after riding into wire stretched across the road...

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April 13, 2017, 10:16 AM
Bigboreshooter
Motorcycle rider beheaded after riding into wire stretched across the road...
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.






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April 13, 2017, 10:22 AM
ScorpionBoy
awful
April 13, 2017, 10:23 AM
Balzé Halzé
Good Lord. Sounds like a scene from "Final Destination."


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April 13, 2017, 11:03 AM
cparktd
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.



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April 13, 2017, 11:07 AM
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April 13, 2017, 11:08 AM
wishfull thinker
What an awful thing to happen. We just got reminded, life is uncertain.


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April 13, 2017, 11:27 AM
downtownv
Wow! What a freak accident... RIP young man.


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April 13, 2017, 12:51 PM
C-Dubs
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.



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April 13, 2017, 12:59 PM
Rightwire
Wow, talk about bad timing or wrong place wrong time. Sympathy to his family.




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April 13, 2017, 01:15 PM
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Prayers for Fabian...


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April 13, 2017, 02:32 PM
cjevans
... horrible.

Prayers for his family ...



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April 13, 2017, 02:33 PM
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.


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April 13, 2017, 03:48 PM
Ken226
quote:
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"
April 13, 2017, 04:09 PM
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. Not that the outcome is any better, but at least it was an accident instead of intentional.
April 13, 2017, 04:25 PM
slabsides45
Wow, sounds like the opening scene to a 'Supernatural' episode.


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April 13, 2017, 04:57 PM
Prefontaine
quote:
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.



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April 13, 2017, 05:14 PM
FlyingScot
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.





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April 13, 2017, 05:32 PM
Aquabird
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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April 13, 2017, 05:56 PM
sigfreund
quote:
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.




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April 13, 2017, 06:33 PM
Sig2340
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.





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