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Re: Bike Week Death Toll
« Reply #15 on: March 14, 2006, 09:17:54 PM »
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Sorry to hear about your friends family misfortune, and my condolences go out to you and there family.

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Re: Bike Week Death Toll
« Reply #16 on: March 14, 2006, 11:40:26 PM »
Unfortunatelly, it's not only the elderly drivers that are causing the bike accidents.  It's all ages ....  young drivers talking on cell phones, eating, etc. or just in a hurry blowing through a stop or yield sign.....or the soccer mom w/ the kids fighting in the back of the SUV who runs over the stopped bike at a intersection or the  road-rage cager that just gets pissed at all the traffic jams caused by the thousands of bikers jamming up their neighborhoods.  And you can go on and on.  I've personally witnessed a couple get run over by a safety vehicle in Daytona that was responding to a call w/ red lights on and pulled right out into the bike.  I watched another couple die as a delivery truck turned into the bikes path and they were going too fast to stop.  My friend had a SC state trooper on I-95 almost cause him to wreck on the way back from Daytona this year as the trooper just pulled right in front of two bikes in the right lane running 75mph w/ no where to go.......luckly a truck in the left lane pulling a bike trailer saw what was happening and swerved just enough to open a hole for the bikes to make it by.  Maybe the real problem is too many people/vehicles.  ????  One accident is too many, but when this many people start dying at one bike event, it'll cause you to question the potential cost of attending.  We all ride w/ the knowledge that accidents can and will happen, but it's sad to see the numbers increase.  :( spyder
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Re: Bike Week Death Toll
« Reply #17 on: March 15, 2006, 05:35:40 AM »
It's not just the bikers talking about it. See the Daytona paper;

http://www.news-journalonline.com/  
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Re: Bike Week Death Toll
« Reply #18 on: March 15, 2006, 02:10:28 PM »
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Start charging them with vehicular manslaughter and they'll start looking for the motorcycle.


Interestingly enough, in this morning's Sacramento Bee I read where a young lady was charged yesterday for running over a guy on his bike and killing him instantly, last month.  The article said that she's "beleived to have been under the influence of alcohol"........whatever that means, a month later? [smiley=nixweiss.gif]
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Re: Bike Week Death Toll
« Reply #19 on: March 15, 2006, 02:10:37 PM »
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Unfortunatelly, it's not only the elderly drivers that are causing the bike accidents.
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Re: Bike Week Death Toll
« Reply #20 on: March 15, 2006, 07:03:10 PM »
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Re: Bike Week Death Toll
« Reply #21 on: March 19, 2006, 08:32:59 PM »
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Sad to state, however we have some local folks that were affected by these events.
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Re: Bike Week Death Toll
« Reply #22 on: March 19, 2006, 08:37:00 PM »
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Just got word, wife did not make it...


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Re: Bike Week Death Toll
« Reply #23 on: March 19, 2006, 10:21:07 PM »
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Just got word, wife did not make it...

Sorry to hear about your friends Jock.

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Re: Bike Week Death Toll
« Reply #24 on: March 19, 2006, 10:39:21 PM »
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Just got word, wife did not make it...

Sympathies to your friends Jock....do you know any particulars?
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Re: Bike Week Death Toll
« Reply #25 on: March 20, 2006, 08:56:45 AM »
My condolences Jock,sorry to hear that Bro.
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Re: Bike Week Death Toll
« Reply #26 on: March 25, 2006, 10:21:01 AM »
This was my tenth time to Daytona out of the last twelve. I think there were as many bikes as in the years past. I also think that since the event is getting more spread out so are the riders. While I like the spread out format it does allow for some hammering between stops. I tend to do the Daytona stuff early week while the crowds are still thin. As the bikes roll in I roll out. I rode up A1A to Jacksonville passing through A very nice St. Augistine. I took a trip to Orlando one day just to look around. Another day I ventured down towards Melbourne. I stay in Palm Coast at a buddies house so I have a 30ish mile ride in and out of town each day.

It's sad to hear when someone knows one of the fatalities as in Jock's case.
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Re: Bike Week Death Toll
« Reply #27 on: March 25, 2006, 08:02:23 PM »
Sorry to hear about your Friend, Jock.  OTIS and I have a Friend that was traveling to Key West, during Bike Week, 2-up with his Wife on an Ultra, in the passing lane, and the car beside him just pulled right into them.  They'll be OK, I hear, but that could have been fatal.  Later--HUBBARD
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Re: Bike Week Death Toll
« Reply #28 on: March 25, 2006, 08:08:08 PM »
Given they had children, it just becomes more difficult...some fund raisers are planned...they did not have the resources to plan for such an event.
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Re: Bike Week Death Toll
« Reply #29 on: March 26, 2006, 10:00:19 AM »
If there is anything we can do keep us posted.
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