Be careful out there

[XV1100SE]

YES....title all in caps.

 

Over the past few weekends in Ontario, with warm dry weather, there have been a number of motorcycle accidents in Ontario, including MULTIPLE FATALITIES.

 

I don't remember previous years where there have been so many reported motorcycle accidents in Ontario. PLEASE be careful riding ! A few accidents where the biker lost control, others where the cage driver didn't see the bike, turned left in front of the bike, speed a factor as well.

 

I can't stress enough....BE CAREFUL out there. Be aware, anticipate, continuously plan your escape ! With Spring weather, drivers aren't looking for bikes so consider yourself to be invisible, NOT invincible.

 

http://www.navbug.com/motorcycle_accidents_in_ontario.htm

http://www.citynews.ca/2016/03/11/one-man-suffers-non-life-threatening-injuries-in-motorcycle-car-crash/

http://www.680news.com/2016/04/16/three-people-dead-in-car-motorcycle-crash-in-burlington/ - http://www.thespec.com/news-story/6500779-burlington-crash-victims-remembered-as-avid-motorcycle-riders/

http://www.cp24.com/news/man-dead-following-crash-involving-motorcycle-on-steeles-ave-1.2811023

http://www.cp24.com/news/motorcyclist-dead-after-losing-control-being-struck-by-ambulance-on-highway-404-1.2863035

Edited April 18, 2016 by XV1100SE

[ragtop69gs]

A long time friend of ours went down today, cager pulled out across his path and he T-boned the car. Multiple fractures and surgery scheduled for tomorrow. Broken hip, femur, arm, shoulder and occipital bone He's gonna have a long road to recovery. Please keep Carl in your thoughts and prayers.

 

 

PLEASE RIDE SAFE. Watch out for the other guy, who isn't watching.

[Flyinfool]

And to add into the hazards, it is very close to the spring silly season for deer. When the deer are ready to drop their fawns, mostly in the month of May, they will drive last years young out of their territory, so there will be young deer running all over looking for a new place to live. If they spent their firs year in an area with no or few roads, they will have no idea how to cross the street. If mom is right behind them chasing them away, they will not be looking for you.

[XV1100SE]

If you look at the pictures of the SUV (force of crash rolled it on it's side)...the impact of the bike was against the passenger side. The bike penetrated 1/2 way into the SUV.

http://www.thespec.com/news-story/6500779-burlington-crash-victims-remembered-as-avid-motorcycle-riders/

http://www.thespec.com/news-story/6502482-police-look-at-sheer-physics-of-speed-in-burlington-triple-fatal-crash/

 

"Halton Police said the preliminary investigation indicates the motorcycle was traveling eastbound on Dundas Street and the SUV was westbound on Dundas, turning left onto Eaglesfield Drive around 6:10 p.m.".

"Police said the SUV was starting to make a left hand turn onto Eaglesfield Drive, when a 2009 Suzuki motorcycle hit its passenger side. The force of the collision flipped the SUV on its side and both vehicles caught fire."

 

Dundas St is a multilane road (2 lanes each direction, no centre median) with a speed limit of 80km (50mph). They haven't released info on how fast they believe the bike was travelling but for that kind of damage they were going way too fast.

[XV1100SE]

Apparently the speed limit in the area of the accident is 60kph (40mph) and the bike was travelling at 200+kph (125+mph). The driver of the SUV may have seen the bike coming but would not have expected the bike to be be traveling that fast. At 200mph you cover a lot of distance in a second.

[ReinyRooster]

That works out to 55.56 meters per second, or 182.28 feet per second......anybody turning in front of that bike would not anticipate it moving that quickly towards them. That's just suicidal.