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mangell6

23rd March 2004, 08:50

There have been reports of a rider who came off his bike early this morning at Petone. The body was on the road and bike was not seen, may have been on the overbridge. I have heard that a truck was involved.

Does anyone have more accurate information - Linda?

Mike

White trash

23rd March 2004, 09:20

Heard the same but not who it may have been. :eek5:

Hope the rider's all right!

wari

23rd March 2004, 09:49

... body on the road ... doesn't sound too hopeful !!

hope ya wrong

fzr400rr

23rd March 2004, 10:00

Ah that always sucks to hear... Keep us people up north posted....

mangell6

23rd March 2004, 10:43

Saw orange marks sprayed on the road. Looks like the person was heading to Wgtn.

24th March 2004, 05:43

I haven't heard anything, but saw the marks, looks like the bike may have been heading into town and the truck hit into the back of it? Never good when they paint the road.

Have put some feelers out to see what I can find.

Lou Girardin

24th March 2004, 06:47

The cops always mark the position of the vehicles.
Lou

riffer

24th March 2004, 08:43

The cops always mark the position of the vehicles.
Lou
Yeah but this was a person shaped outline. Looks like the guy was shunted from the rear by the truck and went flying over the bridge into the traffic underneath, where he was hit by oncoming cars. Not good.

25th March 2004, 05:36

Have made some enquiries, but still not able to find anything out. I'm still on the case.

Ms Piggy

25th March 2004, 07:47

Yeah but this was a person shaped outline. Looks like the guy was shunted from the rear by the truck and went flying over the bridge into the traffic underneath, where he was hit by oncoming cars. Not good.

Apparently this is what happened. Although I'm not sure about the shunted part, I was talking to someone yesterday who had heard it on the news. Poor guy/gal! :disapint:

Wenier

25th March 2004, 07:53

Well thats not gonna have made someones day. :( but we still dont have a 100% on that is it?

Slingshot

25th March 2004, 09:08

I drove over the Petone overbridge yesterday afternoon and this is what I saw:

Going over the brigde heading into wellington, the two lanes merge into one and then the bridge turns to the left as it's about to merge with SH2.
Just on that corner there was a single skid mark about 2 metres long, then marks on the barrier.

What I'm guessing has happened, the biker hasn't taken the corner, locked up and gone into the barrier and then has been flung over the barrier and onto SH2.

White trash

26th March 2004, 10:15

Saw the same thing. Total agreement.

Us Gixxer riders gotta stick together ya know.