Coat hangered by power lines

**TonyB** · 27th January 2005, 13:13

Fuggen Hell! Scary stuff, you're lucky you weren't decapitated, or electrocuted, or some other 'ted'. Amazing your kneck wasn't broken- you're not a prop are you?

**crashe** · 27th January 2005, 13:16

Holy shit.....
I hope your insurance company paid up in full....

I have never heard of this happening... but shit you are one lucky person..... and to be able to stand up to tell the story...

Hope you went and brought a lotto ticket after that...

Oh yeah and welcome to the site....

**jamietzr3ma89** · 27th January 2005, 13:23

Originally Posted by TonyB

Fuggen Hell! Scary stuff, you're lucky you weren't decapitated, or electrocuted, or some other 'ted'. Amazing your kneck wasn't broken- you're not a prop are you?

lol would have be decapitated as it was a 100km zone for some reason, being
3am in the morning I was only doing about 75-80kms when I hit the lines a local who was hiding in hes car when I hit did nothing because the lines were still live

you're not a prop are you? lol not sure what a prop is lol, but yes somethink looking out for me at the time

**TonyB** · 27th January 2005, 13:55

Originally Posted by jamietzr3ma89

lol not sure what a prop is lol, but yes somethink looking out for me at the time

prop as in rugby player- strong neck... or no kneck: just shoulders, then head

**jamietzr3ma89** · 27th January 2005, 13:57

lol I see no not a prop

**カワサキキド** · 27th January 2005, 14:14

Will you be fitting ape hangers to the tzr now to prevent future accidents?

**TonyB** · 27th January 2005, 14:16

Originally Posted by カワサキキド

Will you be fitting ape hangers to the tzr now to prevent future accidents?

So THATS what they're for

**jamietzr3ma89** · 27th January 2005, 14:32

Originally Posted by カワサキキド

Will you be fitting ape hangers to the tzr now to prevent future accidents?

haha na just wont be in a hurry to ride late at night

**Roadrash** · 27th January 2005, 15:00

bloodyhell, sometimes the most straight forward things become the most complicated, suggest you talk to Cruzer just read his other thread and sounds like he's your man.

**Motu** · 27th January 2005, 16:22

Originally Posted by Paul in NZ

How has this affected your insurance?

Sounds a little like the case I got into a discussion with Oscar about.

ie The drunk actually caused the accident but legally, he didn't (if you get my drift)

Like one up the road a couple of years ago - he had a heart attack and hit a parked car....but seeing as he was unconsious at the time it was not consisered his fault,at least by the insurance company anyway.

**bane** · 27th January 2005, 16:59

wow, not sure if your lucky or not... bloody scary though

the same sort of thing happened to my uncle. Riding off road on the side of the Waimak river, came a cropper when some bastard put a line of #8 wire head height across a track. Luckily he was up on the pegs at the time and caught him in the chest - that bruising lasted a looong time.
apparently somone was protecting a plot...

**Monsterbishi** · 27th January 2005, 17:21

On a lighter note, shouldn't it be "Clotheslined" not "Coat hangered"?

**spudchucka** · 27th January 2005, 19:51

The difficulty is that the drunk driver didn't "intentionally" place the lines across the road and he didn't intend for a M/C rider to nearly be decapitated. Also because of the time delay it is difficult to prove that the second crash happened as a direct result of the first. Having said that though I think it would be harsh to lay the balme squarely at the feet of the M/C rider, (its pretty hard to see lines across the road at night time).

I think that all the police could do here is include some of the details in the summary of facts and hope the judge takes it into account when sentencing.

I've never dealt with a situation like this so I'm guessing a little here but on the face of it thats how I would sum up the options.

BykeyCop might be the better chap to offer an opinion on that one.

**inlinefour** · 27th January 2005, 22:14

Originally Posted by jamietzr3ma89

I was out riding me bike home at 3am in the morning when I was suddenly knocked clean off me bike, I saw nothing, got up off the road my helmet was gone, too find that a drunk driver had knock a power poll down and had put power lines across the road. I never saw that coming lol, the low down from the Five-0, was that because this drunk nutter had his crash 5mins before I did, hes was at no fault and was not charged with anythink, what would you do and is there anythink that I can do, yes this went to court and I was told unless this coat hangering had killed me nothing would have been done.

any body have anything like this happen too them?

But I sympathise. I guess shit happens and insurance is a good thing

**spudchucka** · 28th January 2005, 21:47

Originally Posted by SpeedMedic

I find it very unusual that the scene was not protected properly.. normally Fire and Police are there with lights ablaze to stop this very thing happening??
Even at three in the morning in northland, there are plenty of fire police, volley fireys and the police around.. particuly after 5 minutes or so.
I have NEVER been to an accident where there are wires down that was not OVERLY protected by those pesky fire police (who do a good job btw... just a pain in the ass sometimes).. and yes that is rural... RR would vouch for that and prolly spud and FF too.

Yup, fire police guys are awesome at controlling traffic and keeping a scene safe.