An E-mail sent to me, NOT for the SQUIMISH

[renegade_xs11g]

This was sent to me by my boss......
Really hits home, for 2 reasons
1st, obviously, I ride a motorcycle
2nd, I drive a semi

If you have a sensitive stomach.......DO NOT SCROLL DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




Subject: Wear Your Helmet!

Unbelieveable !

Read the very last line after the photos.

A truck was traveling down the highway at around 1 o'clock in the morning near Tulsa , Oklahoma .

Motorcyclist was traveling at ~120mph and ran into the back of the moving semi-truck.

Truck driver said he felt the impact, and it took almost a 1/4 mile for him to pull over.

This is what he found...

















HE LIVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!

[skipt]

That's unreal. I drive a Gasoline Tanker- glad he didn't
hit something like that.

Skip

[oseaghdha]

No, he did not live.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/tulsacrash.asp

[XJOK2PLAY]

That's 2 for Tulsa

Renegade, that's unbelievable! As a Tulsa local, that's the 2nd bike accident in Tulsa today. I just posted earlier about one on the news this am in Tulsa where the biker took an offramp too fast, lost control and went down, and got ran over by the following truck. He didn't make it.
Can't imagine being drug for a 1/4 mile... looks like it removed his boots.

[DGXSER]

Don't take this the wrong way Renegade, not a dig at you. Only been on this site since November and this is about the fourth time this has been posted.

Yes it is a bad scene no matter how you look at it. Nope, he did not live. Glad he did not have a passenger on the bike.

[renegade_xs11g]

I stand corrected

notice at the bottom of that link, the passage about false info saying he had lived....

No offense taken.....I'd not seen any of the other postings

[XJOK2PLAY]

Oseaghdha, I just read your thread and visited the site that had further info and see that this crash in fact happened on 4/17/07, not recently as I first presumed. But there was a fatality bike wreck in Tulsa today, as I previously mentioned.

[DJinNH]

I was thinking....If he lived, why the heck isn't someone working on him instead of taking pictures?

Don

[madmax-im]

I read and saw pics of this 2 years ago and the rider did not survive... in that pic he is already dead.... Killed on impact...prolly broke his neck...

[DJinNH]

I read and saw pics of this 2 years ago and the rider did not survive... in that pic he is already dead.... Killed on impact...prolly broke his neck...

I'm guessing that bottom edge of the trailer didn't do his chest/heart/lungs any favors either.

Don

[barberad]

When I went thru MSF on KAB back in '93, they were just about done trying to use the "Scared Safe" concept. They had a bunch of pictures in the back of the classroom with heads in helmets and feet in shoes scattered all over the highway. Really made you think.
I guy I work with just lost one his best friends when he pulled his bike out of the garage during a warm spell here and decided to take a jaunt around the block without his helmet on. Young wife and family. What a shame.

Hopefully, the guy in the picture didn't suffer.

[DJinNH]

Hopefully, the guy in the picture didn't suffer.

I know....unfortunately, I'm pretty sure his family and friends did.

Don

[79XS11F]

That's an ugly sight to see but I must ask ...How the hell do you run into something that big. With the truck also moving along at the speed limit the total difference is about 60 to 80 MPH.
Rob

[DGXSER]

Possible explanation

Rob,

I looked at and figured he was trying to pass tight, maybe even be one of those idiots that try to go between two vehicles since the bike is so small. We all know how the turbulant winds around a large truck like that can pull you over if you get to close. JAT

[DiverRay]

IIRC, This picture was one week after his "best friend" was killed, same way, same road. The truck was doing about 55, and the bike was at 120 plus. Truck driver saw the bike parts go past his truck, but didn't even feel the impact. There was a BIG writeup in the Tulsa paper, I think.