Have you guys seen this!

[Viirin]

http://motorcycleinsuranceusa.blogspot. ... ys-to.html (http://motorcycleinsuranceusa.blogspot.com/2010/06/motorcycle-insurance-usa-it-pays-to.html)

[Sarris]

Yeah, I've seen it. It's unbelievable that the guy survived.

:retard: O_o

[Nutterhead]

wow

[GZ Jess]

So according to the story he was alive and hanging there the whole time they took pictures after they found him? Wow.......

[alanmcorcoran]

These are the kind of lovely shots I was referring to when advising re full face helmets. This one is pretty gruesome but actually tame compared to some others I've seen.

[mrlmd1]

I saw that somewhere a year or so ago, I may have posted it on here, and read somewhere that he did NOT survive, maybe from someone who answered or responded to that post. I have to look it up.
It would be hard to believe someone would survive an impact like that punching a hole into the back of the truck, without breaking his neck or severely injuring his brain or his chest from the force of that impact.

[mrlmd1]

Just looked it up, from my post April 15, 2008, same article, beat you to it, And the info was that he did not survive the crash.

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=791&p=5137#p5137 (http://www.gz250bike.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=791&p=5137#p5137)

[alanmcorcoran]

Dude was wearing all the right stuff. It's just not rated for your head going from 120mph to 0 in 0 seconds.

[mrlmd1]

We've had this discussion before, but just to remind everyone - the helmet is supposed to protect your head from the impact of a fall of about 6 feet to the ground, the distance from your head to the pavement to protect from an impact injury, not hitting a wall at 50 or 60 mph or whatever speed you decide. It may also protect from abrasion of your face and head on the road surface, but no way will protect you from something like seen in those pics. It may make you a little better looking for the viewing at the funeral, that's about it.

[dhgeyer]

I prefer the full face helmet and good safety gear, as you all know by now. Having said that, I do believe that 90% or more of surviving on a motorcycle is a matter of what's between your ears, not what's around them.

I wonder if the guy got a Darwin Award.

[music man]

No the guy did not survive, most likely he died instantly.

[patrick_777]

This happened a few miles from me. This guy is very dead.

[3-D Video]

I do believe that 90% or more of surviving on a motorcycle is a matter of what's between your ears, not what's around them.
In Baja, they used to put up crosses along the road where people had been in fatal accidents. You might be driving along, see some skid marks, and a cross or two at the edge of the road. One I found particularly striking… a cross with another cross on it's arm. Apparently where a pregnant woman had died.
There are some roads in France where they put up black silhouettes of the dead… some with bottles marked "XXX".
Laws may have their usefulness. But, the pure presence of fact sure makes one alert to the dangers of driving.

[alantf]

Over here they do something similar. They put up little shrines with a photo of the person, plus a few religious artefacts, & flowers. The relatives must spend the rest of their lives tending the shrines as they're always clean & tidy, with fresh flowers.

This is an example, in memory of a 15 year old, killed while cycling the wrong way along a one way road.[attachment=0:2t5kkxc5]view 29.JPG[/attachment:2t5kkxc5]

[3-D Video]

The relatives must spend the rest of their lives tending the shrines as they're always clean & tidy, with fresh flowers.

Man! That kind of stuff really strikes home, every time I see it :cry:

[ncff07]

I've seen that alot. Flowers or crosses at the site of a fatal accident. One particular that I'll always remember, a car of high school kids in a car were going to fast entering a really sharp turn went off the road and hit a light pole. If that wasn't bad enough it wasnt the light pole that did them in it was the transformer on the pole that fell on the top of the car. I remember talking to the medic that helped on scene he said the guy had long blond hair and so did one of the girls and you couldnt tell whose hair was whose until they pulled them out cause they were close to each other. They replaced that light pole after that and theres been a cross fastened to it since to in memorial to those kids and its been15 to 20 years ago.

[Viirin]

work better than speed signs...