Another nasty one

[Sycophant]

Not to dwell on these things, but there was a serious motorcycle vs car accident in Symonds St outside Auckland Uni today.

I understand the motorcyclist is dead.

The Herald has this.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/latestnews...toryID=3556922

A friend of mine who was around the area shortly afterward said that the car driver did a U-Turn in a no u-turn area and didn't see the motorbike coming toward him.

I hope it wasn't anyone from here, and regardless, it's a horrible tragedy which hopefully isn't repeated too often. It's nice to see an improved campaign to "Watch Out For Motorbikes" - I only hope it has some effect.

Stay safe everyone.

[Motoracer]

I just hope its not anyone I know :disapint:

[Posh Tourer :P]

Condolences to anyone who knows this person..... A bit close to home as both me and milky were in and out of Uni along Symonds St today

[Lord Pac]

yeah just heard it now!

becareful out there people!

[riffer]

[sighs]

utterly bloody disheartening...

[Wenier]

Thats bad and sux, sorry to anyone who knew this person. Look out for those cagers everyone

[Coldkiwi]

thats a real shame. Symonds st is so dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists/motorcyclists because the lanes are not very wide and there is so much traffic on the footpaths and road. Combined with the shade from trees, it is a very difficult task to properly identify all possible hazards when riding/driving. This is often made worse by dodgy crossing from students (been there, guilty of that).

[MikeL]

My son who was there tells me the pillion passenger was trapped under the car which had to be lifted up to release him. He also gave me details about the car driver and his actions. Without prejudging the issue it would appear that the driver did a sudden U-turn and the bike was going a bit too fast to avoid a collision. Another avoidable tragedy.
In any civilised city a street that runs through a university campus would be closed off and turned into a pedestrian precinct.

[Big Dog]

Fark that they don't even know if it was a man or a woman.
No doubt it will go down in the statistics as rider error because he was going to fast to stop. Despite the sudden and illegal move by the cage.

I'm not paranoid, they are all out to get me.

[sAsLEX]

It was two third year engineers, a bit close to home as they are only a year ahead of me!!

"Without prejudging the issue it would appear that the driver did a sudden U-turn and the bike was going a bit too fast to avoid a collision."

The driver was apparently a foreign student, so how good their license was could be interesting.

[Indiana_Jones]

That's sad.
Man those cunts just pull out of no where, and 95% of the time it's just asains who don't look.

-Indy

[KATWYN]

I always like to convince myself when I hear about a "nasty"
on the road or on the track that it was rider error- so I can
tell myself I have a certain amount of control over that sort of thing happening to me on my bike and that if I do EVERYTHING right and ride defensively it "won't happen to me"

But the hardcore truth is I am participating in a dangerous passtime
and the risk factor is 50/50 of a "nasty" happening when I choose to
get on the bike. No amount of playing with the facts of accidents and how they happen will change that.

As well as rider error - Road conditions, other drivers and mechanical
failure of the bike are an uncontrollable risk as much as I try not to
think about that side of it.

Does anyone else think this way...or have any other comments?

[Motu]

Very much so,rogue events - you gotta be on the lookout for them.Sad as this situation was - like,um....riding inner city Auckland,going a bit fast...oh,some stupid bitch did a U turn in front of me an I got killed - uh...HELLO!!!

[k14]

Yeah, that totally sucks.

Dont need to be PC saslex, fucking asians.

Probably get their parents to pay some "reperation" money to the family of the person that died and get a suspended sentence or something crap like that.

Stupid fucking cagers, this pisses me off so much

[Marmoot]

wtf does that gotta do with Asians again? Ain't ya bored with same-sounding threads all the time about those stereotyping??

F*ck ya man if ya can't live with Asians go to South Pole. I don't think there will be lots of Asians down there.