The joys of doing a runner

[quickbuck]

Height too...

Indeed... More proof that it isn't actually the speed that gets you, it is the sudden stop at the end.....

[Freakshow]

Who ever it was must have been lost, RIP

[imdying]

Hope he was either a bike their of involved in bike theft, bit of a waste otherwise.

[Fatjim]

ISO 9209 standard for measuring speed (visual estimation by Burger King Employee) was used

[The Stranger:Me]

Just because he did something stupid doesnt mean he deserved death....

No it doesn't, however sometimes when you do something stupid it just happens.
Point is, deserved or not, you pay your money, you take ya chances - deserved has nothing to do with it.

[motor_mayhem]

Hmmm just said Johnsonville on the news and now I see that it is Newlands.

Really bad start of the year for bikers - that said at just after 9am this morning there was an MX bike (no license plate) riding into central wellington today on SH1 doing about 85 in the outside lane, I passed him just before the ateo quay exit. That bloke needs his head looking at.

Slightly off the track but my mate's MX bike was stolen in exactly this manner, they broke it out of his garage and rode it down SH2 to the hutt and then it was never heard from again. I hope that wasn't someone else's bike being stolen.

[Hoon]

Just because he did something stupid doesnt mean he deserved death....

Debatable but he made his choice and deserves whatever the outcome may be which in this instance was death.

Sympathy = 0

The only good that can come from this is that others learn from his stupidity and if faced with the same situation man up and accept responsibility for their actions instead of choosing to risk their lives for something so insignificant.

[Movistar]

Roll on winter.

Amen to that.
Best time of year to enjoy riding I reckon. Far less tourists and far less wannabe's...

[crazyhorse]

Regardless of what he rode, who his familly were, who the cop was, he obviously had his reasons for running and thought he could get away with it ! Perhaps licenceless, perhaps he'd had a few, who knows !
He made his decision and paid the ultimate price ! He didn't committ deliberate suicide, so if i know him, or those close to him, i will attend his funeral and comfort those around him !
Won't bag the cop, wont bag the rider, wont bag those who choose to do either !

15 meters is a long time to be falling !

Well said

[RC1]

no sympathy from me, you decide to run and avoid a minor ticket you deserve to suffer the consequences imo

[Mikkel]

Heard on the news this morning that he was going at 120kph on the motorway. What's that ... a $120 fine? Must have thought he was going to be pinged for other behaviour surely!

Someone else mentioned something about the guilty conscience of cops. Maybe they were mostly right, just slightly off-target.

[Taz]

Hope he was either a bike their of involved in bike theft, bit of a waste otherwise.

What ? .

[imdying]

Dyslexia is cnut.

[Naki Rat]

"Strange. I've done it heaps of times on Playstation and almost never have to restart" Ain't reality a bitch!

Seriously though I suspect there could well have been more than a traffic infringement to avoid in this case.

[Babelfish]

From some serious analysis efforts amongst my colleagues and I, given the actions, location of runner and location of accident, we have so far concluded there are complete numbnuts out there. RIP numbnut.

Stay tuned for more stunning media level analysis as more facts come to light (or not)