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

    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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!
    1980 XS11 Special aka The Monster
    "My life used to be a Soap Opera, until I realized something, I own the network."
    My Photo Bucket

  • #2
    That's unreal. I drive a Gasoline Tanker- glad he didn't
    hit something like that.

    Skip
    1979 XS1100SF
    2005 VTX1800S3 ( Dailey ride)

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    • #3
      No, he did not live.

      http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/tulsacrash.asp
      XS1100SF
      XS1100F

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      • #4
        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.
        '82 XJ1100J Maxim (has been sold.)

        '79 F "Time Machine"... oh yeah, Baby.... (Sold back to Maximan)

        2011 Kaw Concours 14 ABS

        In the warden's words from Cool Hand Luke;
        "What we have here is a failure to communicate."

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        • #5
          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.
          Life is what happens while your planning everything else!

          When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

          81 XS1100 Special - Humpty Dumpty
          80 XS1100 Special - Project Resurrection


          Previously owned
          93 GSX600F
          80 XS1100 Special - Ruby
          81 XS1100 Special
          81 CB750 C
          80 CB750 C
          78 XS750

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          • #6
            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
            Last edited by renegade_xs11g; 03-05-2009, 10:14 PM.
            1980 XS11 Special aka The Monster
            "My life used to be a Soap Opera, until I realized something, I own the network."
            My Photo Bucket

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            • #7
              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.
              '82 XJ1100J Maxim (has been sold.)

              '79 F "Time Machine"... oh yeah, Baby.... (Sold back to Maximan)

              2011 Kaw Concours 14 ABS

              In the warden's words from Cool Hand Luke;
              "What we have here is a failure to communicate."

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              • #8
                I was thinking....If he lived, why the heck isn't someone working on him instead of taking pictures?

                Don
                currently own;
                1980 Yamaha XS1100 SG
                2009 Yamaha Star Raider

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                • #9
                  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...
                  1980 XS650G Special-Two
                  1993 Honda ST1100

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by madmax-im View Post
                    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
                    Last edited by DJinNH; 03-06-2009, 10:52 AM.
                    currently own;
                    1980 Yamaha XS1100 SG
                    2009 Yamaha Star Raider

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                    • #11
                      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.
                      Current Rides: '82 XJ w/Jardine 4-1's, GIVI flyscreen, '97 Triumph Trophy 1200
                      Former Rides: '71 CB350, '78 400 Hawk, '75 CB550/4;
                      while in Japan: '86 KLR250, '86 VT250Z, '86 XL600R, '82 CB450(Hawk II), '96 750 Nighthawk, '96 BMW F650

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by barberad View Post

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

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

                        Don
                        currently own;
                        1980 Yamaha XS1100 SG
                        2009 Yamaha Star Raider

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                        • #13
                          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
                          KEEP THE RUBBER SIDE DOWN

                          1978 XS1100E Modified
                          1978 XS500E
                          1979 XS1100F Restored
                          1980 XS1100 SG
                          1981 Suzuki GS1100
                          1983 Suzuki GS750S Katana
                          1983 Honda CB900 Custom

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                          • #14
                            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
                            Life is what happens while your planning everything else!

                            When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

                            81 XS1100 Special - Humpty Dumpty
                            80 XS1100 Special - Project Resurrection


                            Previously owned
                            93 GSX600F
                            80 XS1100 Special - Ruby
                            81 XS1100 Special
                            81 CB750 C
                            80 CB750 C
                            78 XS750

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                            • #15
                              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.
                              Ray Matteis
                              KE6NHG
                              XS1100 E '78 (winter project)
                              XS1100 SF Bob Jones worked on it!

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