Today another one.
Myself and one of our works supervisors were called out to an motorcycle accident involving one of our tractor spraying crews, on the way to the scene my workmate (who is the national registrar for Ulysses) told me that it’s getting more frequent to see the “born again bikers” come to grief, he said they fall behind in the twisty bits then take chances trying to catch the group again. He also told me they tend to buy very flashy bikes which don’t handle the cornering duties too well, in fact had one that was on a group ride recently was killed overtaking on a corner.
As we drove to the scene we passed maybe 30 cruisers on this backroad, all flashy and new looking, mostly two-up.
We got to the scene and three police cars and an ambulance in attendance, supervisor stated gees, they’re quick as we got it over the radio before the ambos were called, turned out the ambo was on a trip to Brisbane and came across the scene basically before the bike stopped sliding down the tar.
Pillion was lying in neckbrace and prone, had been knocked out, wearing a open faced mirror finish helmet, rider lying on ground with torn jeans talking with police, my bloke looking like a ghost and his crew undertaking traffic control. Turns out he was finishing for the day and was turning down a side road, checked rear vision and saw the bike was a fair way behind so indicated and started to turn, next thing he knows a bike has hit the rear of his front right wheel and everything went cartwheeling down the tarmac, another car coming the other way saw it all.
Facts of the accident
A lodged workzone with correct signage
Speed limited to 40 kph
Traffic controllers at either end in full visual and radio communication
Double white lines for the entire workzone
Brand new Triumph 1600, with lotsa aftermarket bling and full custom wheels
Rider and his good lady in brand spankers gear open faces and polished boots
Apparently the bloke came roaring past the traffic controller, went to pass the tractor and collected it, the car coming the other way was doing 40kph and was still concerned the bike was going to hit them.
Contributing factor, apparently our operator didn’t check the indicators in the morning and the rear right was blown, so he copped a fine for that.
The motorcyclist told us he had fallen behind the group, interestingly enough it was a good 45 minutes befores his “mates” discovered he was missing despite being 6 minutes from town where they were having coffees at the café’.
I’ll leave the conclusions to your good selves
BC
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