Fatal Motorcycle Accidents Shuts Down Atlantic
[nggallery id=”45290″ template=galleryview] A motorcyclist was killed this morning at around 7 a.m. when he (we assume) was struck by a taxi heading east on Atlantic Avenue between Hoyt and Bond Streets. As of 9:30 this morning, Atlantic Avenue was shut down in both directions between Smith Street and Flatbush Avenue, causing a series of…
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A motorcyclist was killed this morning at around 7 a.m. when he (we assume) was struck by a taxi heading east on Atlantic Avenue between Hoyt and Bond Streets. As of 9:30 this morning, Atlantic Avenue was shut down in both directions between Smith Street and Flatbush Avenue, causing a series of reverberating traffic jams on all the major thoroughfares in the area.
I thought about getting a motorcycle license back when I turned 30 — and then I thought about operating my motorized wheelchair with a tongue-controlled joystick for the rest of my life, and decided against it.
@Squaredrive: Sure, and most of them don’t die, but Darwin makes sure a bit more of them do than the ones who don’t. We all take risks and chances. Motorcyle riding strikes me as a stupid one. On the other hand, I had the corned beef hash AND the sweetened grits for breakfast today, and that may be taking a stupid risk, too, given my existing girth.
“Sport bikes, which emergency-room doctors call “donorcycles,” as in organ donation, are more dangerous than their less powerful counterparts.
—Alex Berenson, “Born to Be Wild, but at a Cost,” The New York Times, July 6, 2003 ”
What an idiotic comment. Please define ‘sport bike’.
“I am not blaming the individual biker here at all. I was just musing on what makes one want to ride a motorcycle given the built in danger factor. I would have the same questions about people who like to skydive, or climb Mt Everest. ”
wasder, yes, you truly don’t get it. And that’s OK too. If most drivers weren’t blind, the risk factor would go down considerably. Riding a motorcycle brings a great deal of pleasure, the kind of pleasure you can’t experience even in a near supercar like a Ferrari. It’s about being exposed, being open, about being in control of a machine that is the closest thing the average person can experience short of the race track. Bikers know the risk, but they seek the reward. The reward is great, the risk is higher than a car but then again thirty thousand car drivers die every year.
keep your wig on squaredrive
“Don’t get me wrong though I am super sympathetic to the victim here I just wonder about the desire to ride motorcycles which strikes me as irresponsible (to self).”
You are entitled to your opinion, but it’s offensive because you are making your self-righteous, blame-the-victim case on top of someone who died THIS MORNING.
You are not factoring that many, many intelligent, reasonable people understand risk, weigh it, and still choose to ride bikes or climb rocks or get on a sail boat to circle the earth at age 16. Have you never voluntarily done any activity that involves risk to life and limb? Are you really that lame?
OK, seems Wasder has shown the point I was making to WBer.
Yeah ditto. My original statement was poorly worded. Should have been something about the disproportionately high rate of donors coming from motorcycle riders.
“Wasder – given that motorcycle fatalities are about 10% those of automobile fatalities, what you have heard about organ donation is clearly urban legend.”
WBer, you’re a bit off course there. If you consider the number of drivers versus the number of motorcyclists and yet motorcycle fatalities are about 10% …
I am not blaming the individual biker here at all. I was just musing on what makes one want to ride a motorcycle given the built in danger factor. I would have the same questions about people who like to skydive, or climb Mt Everest.