05-27-2021, 02:29 PM
(05-27-2021, 12:03 AM)EmptySea_imp Wrote: Agree with Mr. P on his points.
I won't even describe here the horrific scene that was photographed and posted on social media a few years ago of a double fatally on I-55 in or just outside of the city of Chicago; it's just too gruesome. The rider and his passenger were the fatalities and no other vehicles were involved. If I recall, they estimated the bike's speed at impact at 125mph.
There are packs of these guys riding around every summer night on the interstates near me. I can hear them starting at around 11pm. I've seen them flying past us in our car. It's nerve racking even for a driver who is an experienced motorcyclist. I imagine that it could put a driver into a panic that causes them to brake or change lanes suddenly. I don't know how I would deal with hitting a bike with my car and killing the rider regardless of my culpability for the incident. These guys don't think about such things. I'm not sure they think about anything other than themselves. That's frustrating. and sad.
My Aunt had this happen to her. She just stepped out for groceries and a 20 year old decided to see how fast he could go on a road with no traffic lights for cars leaving the busy supermarket. The speed limit on the road was 35 mph. The responding accident investigator estimated the bikes speed at over 120 mph when he struck the side of my Aunts car just behind the rear driver’s side door. It spun her Subaru Outback almost two revolutions and totaled her car. The young boy was killed instantly. She had horrible guilt about that for years, even though she couldn’t have possibly prevented it. He was going so fast that she never even saw him.