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Keeping that family safe
On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 10:01:30 -0400, Wayne.B wrote:
On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 09:50:40 -0400, Poquito Loco wrote: On Fri, 11 Jul 2014 21:13:10 -0400, Wayne.B wrote: On Fri, 11 Jul 2014 19:46:00 -0400, wrote: You can make a far worse case against swimming pools. === That's an interesting point. We must lose at least a dozen or more kids to swimming pools every year just in Lee County alone. And what about the motorcycle toll? That's probably more like two dozen a year. Yeah, but that's only true if folks ride their motorcycles. If you don't ride them, they're damn safe! But I'll bet that more than 90% of those injured on motorcycles were riding them when injured. === South Western Florida has a particularly deadly mix of older drivers, both cars and motorcycles, combined with very little helmet usage. The most common accident that I see is a car making a left turn in front of a bike that they didn't see for one reason or another. We also have a fair assortment of younger bikers who like to race their crotch rockets at 150+ in the middle of the night. That crotch rocket racing is a topic in this month's AMotorcycleA magazine. Up here they've started using the beltway, 52 miles long, as a race track. I've seen up to ten of them racing at a time. They start at one exit and see who can get back the quickest. So far none have been killed, but it's just a matter of time. They're giving bikers a hell of a bad name. The left turn in front of the motorcycle is the most common of the car/motorcycle collisions. The excuse is always, "I didn't see it coming." I can somewhat sympathize with the auto drivers. The other day I almost did the same thing. The bike was black, the rider in black, and the background was dark. Plus he was going very fast. It used to be that a headlight provided some warning, but now almost every vehicle has headlights, so they're no help to motorcycles. Luckily I saw the guy and hit my brakes at the last second. That incident kind of changed my attitude about the excuse most used by auto drivers. I can understand it much better. |
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