Scooter Rider Crashes....Dies

hardd1 · Post by **hardd1** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 7:17 pm

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48124277/ns ... _myers_fl/

skully93 · Post by **skully93** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 9:27 pm

::ahem::

"Police say speed and alcohol were not factors in the crash. The man was not wearing a helmet."

Poor guy!

Ride safe folks.

Dooglas · Post by **Dooglas** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 11:03 pm

Single vehicle accidents of this kind - especially involving an older rider - are often the result of a stroke or other medical emergency. (doesn't make the result any better, of course)

JHScoot · Post by **JHScoot** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 11:07 pm

If I search the news everyday I bet I can find a dead scooter rider everyday

Skootz Kabootz · Post by **Skootz Kabootz** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 11:07 pm

Hope I'm still riding at 74. RIP old rider.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 11:13 pm

Dooglas wrote:Single vehicle accidents of this kind - especially involving an older rider - are often the result of a stroke or other medical emergency. (doesn't make the result any better, of course)

That's what I was thinking. There have been a couple of recent local incidents with cage drivers passing out for no apparent reason.
Still, regardless of the cause, IF this ever happens to me, I hope I'm wearing some sort of a brain bucket.

Rob

Stormswift · Post by **Stormswift** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 12:25 am

Two of the guys from our group managed to have an accident (one clipped the other's rear wheel.) Both went down (we rode ahead and did not know anything happened until a month later, after they came out of rehab).There was no "substances" involved. Just someone not knowing the rules of riding with a group and following too closely. The comment from one of them was that he is planning on getting a full face helmet.

Syd · Post by **Syd** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 12:35 am

Stormswift wrote:Two of the guys from our group managed to have an accident (one clipped the other's rear wheel.) Both went down (we rode ahead and did not know anything happened until a month later, after they came out of rehab).There was no "substances" involved. Just someone not knowing the rules of riding with a group and following too closely. The comment from one of them was that he is planning on getting a full face helmet.

Is that because he expects the other guy to come after him for running into his rear wheel?

KABarash · Post by **KABarash** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 1:31 pm

As JH said, I bet you can find at least one a day in the news somewhere....

It only might change if people stop treating our scooters as if they were toys. Just last week I noticed the cute girl at work had a patch of road rash on her lower right leg, I asked her what happened. She replied "I crashed a mo-ped" I pressed her for more info, she was wearing flip-flops and a dress, no helmet and I wonder what else she didn't have on

The 'mo-ped' was a SYM HD200.......
I responded,
"EVEN if we treat them as if they toys they'll still hurt us....!!"

rsrider · Post by **rsrider** » Thu Jul 12, 2012 5:00 am

JHScoot wrote:If I search the news everyday I bet I can find a dead scooter rider everyday

Post by **ericalm** » Thu Jul 12, 2012 5:35 am

JHScoot wrote:If I search the news everyday I bet I can find a dead scooter rider everyday

Probably. I was getting crash Google alerts for some time but turned them off because I was getting too many "false" alerts for mobility scooters and kids on kick scooters. All tragic, but not the info I wanted.

The three most common factors in fatal crashes: alcohol use, speed, not wearing a helmet.

Lotrat · Post by **Lotrat** » Thu Jul 12, 2012 4:20 pm

I work with a guy that died in his sleep on the 4th of July. He was only 49. No one get's out alive. Ride while you can.

Skootz Kabootz · Post by **Skootz Kabootz** » Thu Jul 12, 2012 4:26 pm

Life is fatal.