 Rider Down- Bad One
Don't usually pass these on but this one was off the charts.
A motorcyclist went down in Vancouver yesterday around 3:00 pm.
The article goes on to say that the rider was in the curb lane heading south, when he was struck by a left turning cage. Two vehicles stopped for the cage turning left, yet the rider kept on going down the curb lane...to his death.
What the article didn't report (for obvious reasons) was that the rider was severed in half, which was witnessed by several riders on one of our local MC forums.
This one could have been avoided with a little more attentiveness.
Let's keep our heads on a swivel people, and in the game when we're doing what we love to do.
Atlas
Motorcyclist killed in accident
Staff Reporter, The Province
Published: Sunday, August 10, 2008
A 22-year-old man riding a motorcycle died in a two-vehicle accident on Oak Street near 31st Avenue in Vancouver Sunday.
Const. Jana McGuinness of the Vancouver Police Department said it appears the motorcyclist was southbound in the curb lane when the driver of a northbound car attempted to make a left turn onto Connaught Drive and struck the motorcycle.
"The two collided in the intersection and that caused the bike to mount a curb and go into a pole," said McGuinness
"That killed the [motorcycle] rider right at the scene there."
The car driver, a 78-year-old woman, was not injured and is co-operating fully with the police investigation, said McGuinness.
A police officer on the scene following the accident said it appears traffic in the other two southbound lanes of Oak Street had stopped for the car turning left in front of them.
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