Saturday, 24 August 2019

Saw another rider die today, I think


Note - Maybe I'm being over sensitive about this, but I feel like I need to talk about it to get it out of me. It's been killing me all day.I took my 14mo baby today to see my grandma today. She recently started having severe episodes of dementia so I wanted to bring him by because I know she always remembers him and gets happy.On our way back, we were riding towards a ring road that has a couple of malls in it so traffic gets bad. I was stuck at a T junction, maybe 3 cars from the guy giving way to other traffic as we were in a stand still. There's a lady wanting to cross the street so I wave for her to cross (no jay walking here). As she starts to walk in front of my car, this guy in a R3 comes flying past all the cars (on the wrong side of the road while at it), so I stick my hand out signalling him to slow down because of the lady crossing in front of my car. I kinda see him want to slow down (you could see his suspension come down a bit) and then he straight up floors it. I honked at the lady and she stopped and the guy just flew by.I keep my eyes on the guy in the R3 and not 3 seconds later a car coming out of the T junction everyone was giving way to, comes out into the lane he's riding opposite direction on and straight on clips him. He had a lady as a pillion and I see her fly out of the motorcycle and the driver literally goes flying over the car and hits a side rail.I heard a loud scream (guessing the pillion) and see everyone running over to both of them. I had my baby in the car so I couldn't just leave him there, but a lot of people start running towards them, so I knew people were getting help for them.After a few seconds everyone starts going to the side and traffic moves forward. I couldn't do much and there must have been a good 10 people there helping out so I pull forward to get past the accident. As I go by I see the motorcycle, both forks snapped but what hit me the most was seeing the guy. He was face up with a MX type helmet, both eyes open, not moving with blood coming out of his mouth and nose. The pillion had gotten up and was screaming on top of him.As I kept driving my baby, who is starting to blurb out words kept saying "pa pa" (dad in spanish) and all I could think of is the image I just saw and something like that happening to me and leaving my wife and baby behind :/.I kept thinking to myself the entire drive home, how everything would've been so much different had he slowed down or stopped when I waved at him to slow down, how I could've done more. It's killing me on the inside.Please be safe. I've been riding for 9 years and always drive on the defensive side of things. Think about your family at home and how a decision you make or someone else makes can end things just like that. via /r/motorcycles https://www.reddit.com/r/motorcycles/comments/cv1g74/saw_another_rider_die_today_i_think/?utm_source=ifttt

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