How did this happen? A tragic accident dissected...

[guitar guru]

Seems to me like one of those freak accidents where a bunch of little things add up to one big mess. If any little detail were altered, it would have been prevented. That's a major bummer.

[Kaiser Soze]

It wasn't a BMW?

Yeah, you shouldn't be on the road unless you have the right bike and the right amount of money to spend. (<- a joke)

You're right man, it IS a joke when people do that.

[Lion_Lady]

Supposedly this really did happen to the friend of a member of one of my other forums.

It got a pretty lively discussion happening, mostly following one or the other of two different points of reasoning:

a) the guy shouldn't have been riding a bike he couldn't flat foot.

b) he should have paid better attention to what he put his foot down on/in.

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[BRUMBEAR]

well I don't know but it seems to me it could have even been a ten speed bike I can't flatfoot that either, I just hope and pray and take precautions but I want to RIDE so I put that stuff away in that little spot in my head and do not dwell on it cause one thing that will kill you for sure is FEAR

[High_Side]

Flatfooting is not a requirement of an experienced rider. The crew on the other forum is barking up the wrong tree with that one...

[307T]

I'm voting for too close to the adjacent vehicle. Sometimes that ain't yer fault though. I agree that the fact that he couldn't flat foot it shouldn't have been a major factor. Everyone can flat foot a bike on at least one side, eh?

[Kal]

He screwed up and an accident that would have bruised his pride and made him the butt of his friends jokes for a while if it had occured anywhere else killed him.

The truck being there at exactly the wrong time was tragic.

[Shiv]

What other forum is this? I'd like to read what they've come up with.


Personally I would say it's the riders fault. You should always be able to flat foot your ride on one foot, if not both.

[sharpmagna]

I'm voting for being too close to the truck. The width of a lane is pretty wide. In the MSF they teach you to split a lane into 3 separate sections and use whichever lane is best for the situation. If the biker in your scenario was able to fall off his bike at a very very slow speed and fall into the path of the truck, then he was too close to begin with. I mean how far can you fall if your close to being stopped? Either that or the guy was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[xsyamahadg]

Maybe he couldn't get his foot down because his boot lace was hung up on the shifter ? If that were the case, he would fall to the left.