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**87gsxrnut** · 08-26-2007, 07:08 PM

While driving home from my birthday gig last night, we crest a hill and see a bunch of people slamming on brakes. My designated driver commented on it. I saw some plastic in the road. Then she commented on the shoe in the road. I immediately thought, "this is not good". She is an EMT, and said something in the right lane looked "meaty".

I couldn't see very well, so I opened the door as we were crawling along. A right arm severed at the elbow was lying about 2-feet from me as we passed by. I shut the door as we snaked passed the still uncovered body. Wearing dressy "club" clothes, the twisted and contorted body was bent in ways a human should not be. Kid had on a helmet. At least they will be able to have an open casket funeral. The "ick" drag marks were at least 100-feet long. The bike was another 50-yards down the road, headlamp still on. There was no plastic left on it. Kawasaki something or other.

Video link:

Motorcycle wreck

Witnesses say the guy was riding too fast, whipping in and out of traffic. He hit a retaining wall and was dead before medical personnel were at the scene. We got there less than 5-minutes after it happened.

That road is dangerous as hell in a car, let alone a bike. A lot of construction in that area. I jokingly call it "dodging the drunks" when I drive through there after playing gigs a couple of times a week. It is bad. Don't know if the guy was drunk or not, but irresponsible riding behavior ended his life. Whether better gear would have saved his life or not I couldn't tell, but at least his body would have been in one piece.

Add to this a good friend of mine's nephew was killed Thursday morning on his bike by an under-age drunk driver makes this a crappy motorcycling week here in SA.

- Nut