And the driver was far too daft to tow a trailer
That was all because of stupid loading. It's easy to tell from the video.
my training came from motorcycle track days. I clearly remember a video where a rider went down in a curve and slid to the right. the following rider with the camera followed the downed bike to the right and ran right into it. target fixation.
In 2018 our daughter Danielle (24 at the time) was living in Lima, OH. She bought a car from a dealership "back home". Kim and I along with our other daughter and her boyfriend drove out to deliver it to her and bring her old car home. Once we got there, the five of us drove down to the Newport Aquarium just over the river from Cincinnati in Kentucky. Danielle was driving her new car for the first time. On the way, we were in the left lane - I75 with 4 lanes of traffic. A Ford Explorer in the right lane just ahead of us blew a tire, spun out, and skidded left across the highway. I just said "brake, brake, brake, stay in your lane, stay in your lane". She managed to calmly follow my directions until the last minute when the Explorer hit the concrete median and started to come back into our lane - she only had to swerve slightly to miss it. Luckily there was nobody right next to us! We still had about 45 minutes on the road. We got to the aquarium, she parked, and handed the keys to me, LOL.
I used to ride a Harley. 19 years ago, this July, a woman in a jacked up older model Suburban was stopped at a stop sign. Wheels stopped, I always looked. It took her 2 (two), seconds to hit me from a dead stop. I timed it 3 months later when I got home from physical rehab and could drive my truck again. The police paint was still on the street. I’m only alive because I was wearing a helmet. Second impact was my head on her hood. Still have the helmet, it’s cracked. I’ve got lotsa surgical stainless in my lower right side. Drive defensively and hope for the best. No more bikes for me.
I went down on a curve on wet asphalt at high speed on my time trial bike 8 or 10 years ago. The back of my head slammed onto the road with tremendous impact. Were it not for the helmet I’d have suffered a minimum of a severe concussion, more likely worse.
Everyone that has ridden a bike for any length of time has either a helmet with a crushed star in it or a headstone. I finally threw my busted helmet in the trash.
