Bad Crash
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Sam Mac_imp
Running like a top
Here is the link. GoFundMe Pages For Bike Victims, Funeral Set - Ride CT & Ride New England
Something odd with this one. I used to live only a few miles from this area and route 63 is a pretty straight road. All I can think of is texting, impaired or deliberate.
Something odd with this one. I used to live only a few miles from this area and route 63 is a pretty straight road. All I can think of is texting, impaired or deliberate.
dsan1964_imp
Been there
Very sad. You just never know. Ride safe
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nhawk7504_imp
Been there
Awful. Group rides are often not safe. A friend on a group ride got startled by a woman with little experience, riding too fast up the right side in the breakdown lane. She swerved into the woman by mistake, who never should have been racing up the right side of the group. I read about a woman in Mass on a group ride killed the same way as the woman in this article. Two staggered lanes of riders and she was in the left side of riders in the right lane of the road. She couldn't get her Harley out of the way of the oncoming driver who came across the yellow line. People are texting. They're looking at the radio, looking in the mirror, looking in the glove box and so on. I've had people come across the divided line into my lane and pull out in front of me from the right and the left. Yes, they will come across the road and yes, they will pull out. Please take an extra second and assume they WILL do something stupid.
Ulvetanna_imp
Road warrior
Group rides prevent individual riders from being able to take evasive action. But they're popular. No matter why someone cuts into your lane or space, if you have some room (which is the real benefit of a motorcycle if we can exploit it) you can often save your skin.nhawk7504_imp said:
redbirds_imp
Road warrior
I did a charity group ride last week and felt tense the entire ride. I rode at the very end of the column (about 30 riders) and left at least 150' clearance ahead. It was for a very good cause and would not have participated otherwise.
ClassicVW_imp
Road warrior
Jesus, that car just didn't cross the yellow lines, it went all the way across the lane and impacted with the bike on the outside edge of the lane.
clearviewx
Been there
nothing you like reading about
Sent shivers down my spine (broken in 3 places due to a recent accident, also caused by a cager).
The driver of the car just finished 18 months of probation for criminal mischief 3 weeks before the accident. Maybe she won't escape jail this time.
Pease be super careful out there. Our population of riders are rarely the cause of bad accidents.
The driver of the car just finished 18 months of probation for criminal mischief 3 weeks before the accident. Maybe she won't escape jail this time.
Pease be super careful out there. Our population of riders are rarely the cause of bad accidents.
Randy B
Road warrior
I found her FB page and she runs a horse farm in CT and has all of these nice pics about the farm and her girls that are in HS and college.CB4ME_imp said:
There obviously was nothing eluding to her conviction there and just nice warm and fuzzy thoughts.
People don't usually set out to destroy someones life like this, but the careless nature of this incident exemplifies why everyone needs to pay attention when out on the road. Riders and drivers alike need to be aware of their surroundings at all times, but in the day and age of 16,000,000 distractions inside the vehicle it is becoming harder and harder to keep your focus on the task at hand.....driving.
IMHO vehicular manslaughter NEEDS to be on the table with this one because of just how bad it went. Unless she had a seizure while she was driving, she was otherwise distracted and not paying attention to the road.
She has some money from what I can see, but weather of not she is willing to use it all to keep herself out of prison is another story. I'm sure that her girls love the horse farm and would be devastated if it were to be sold for her defense. There again having a felon for a mother that went to jail for killing people doesn't sound all that of a rosy prospect either.
Whatever happens it's gonna hurt, but she needs to go to jail for this, and I think the families should sue her for everything she has because they will never get back what she took from them.
My $.02
Elipten_imp
Road warrior
Yep too many jerks driving and using the phone. I as coming home Friday from volunteer work and a man was weaving all over the place and driving well below the limits in the far left lane of a 6 lane expressway. I went right and passed him for my safety.
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emptysea
Road warrior
Ummm this crash has nothing to do with the (incorrect) assertion that group riding is dangerous. Unless I missed something, the driver crossed the line into the bikes. If it had been one bike, only one bike would have been damaged. There is ZERO evidence presented in the article to support the argument that the riders could have avoided the crash had they not been in a group. This crash is about driver error period. I'm not even sure why this post was made; we all know, or should know, that there is an inherent risk in riding. I already know with whom I share the road, thank you, and I always try to be sure that I have room to maneuver my bike whether in a group or not. However, I assure you that neither I nor the most skilled and experienced rider reading this will be able to avoid some idiot that suddenly veers fully, suddenly, and with out any type of warning. into our lane.
