In the previous 5 pages of posts I noticed a few opinions that (to me) indicated a belief that a death or injury could have occurred just as easily had this involved 2 automobiles.
Of course each individual accident's factors will vary, but overall the figures show a fairly predictive pattern when comparing motorcycle fatalities verses automobile fatalities.
Yea stats show it all IMO...
I've witnessed a few wrecks in my time.. One was almost the same thing as this motorcycle crash..
I was sitting at a red light at a busy intersection, and a ford SUV with a bunch of teen girls (teen driver likely 16 to 17) are in the turn lane trying to turn across the traffic. There was a Big box van on the other side of the intersection tryi8ng to turn the other way. So the teens in the SUV couldn't see the traffic coming they intended to cross.
Whats the dumb girl do? Pulls out and tries to cross and gets T-Boned by a on coming car. I jumped out of my truck and went to help them almost instantly and luckily none of them were hurt. The girls in the SUV were just shaken up and the girl in the other car had a bloody nose from the air bag.
Speed limit was 45 mph on the street so it was a fairly high speed impact and they all walked away unharmed.
Another one that amazed me was a big 70's or 80's Ford LTD was speeding down a side street next to my house and didn't stop at a stop sign. The car ran into (T boned) a smaller front wheel drive import and literally ripped the whole front end off the import car (engine and all) and the big Ford LTD did about 4 barrel rolls down the street. was a crazy thing to witness.
Amazing enough the people in the compact car were unharmed (luckily the bigger car hit them on the front half). There were also 5 people in the LTD and none of them had their seat belt on but again amazingly enough none were seriously harmed. I'm betting they were doing about 50mph when they broadsided the smaller car.
So yea as others say lots of people die in car wrecks, but many walk away with almost no injuries. Yet almost no one in a motorcycle crash walks away with no injuries. Obviously people aren't gonna stop riding motorcycles, but IMO they are pretty crazy to ride them these days, with so much traffic out there.
