Do you believe this?
By John Welford
@indexer (4852)
Leicester, England
October 9, 2018 2:52am CST
A work colleague told me yesterday about someone she knows who received life-changing injuries after falling off the back of a motorbike on a motorway.
The amazing thing to me is that he survived at all, seeing as the motorbike in question was going flat out at 150 mph!
He apparently survived because he was wearing all the approved clothing and equipment for riding on a motorbike - high-quality leathers and gloves and a well-fitting helmet and vizor.
But even so - 150 miles an hour? That takes some believing!
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@topffer (42155)
• France
9 Oct 18
At this speed he has been very lucky. The equipment gives a fake feeling of security, the EU security tests standards are low, a helmet has to resist to a frontal collision happening at 18 mph, above the best to do is to pray. 2/3 of motorbikes fatal accidents do not involve any other vehicle.
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@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
9 Oct 18
On the other hand (pardon the pun) riders who do not wear arm protection can suffer horrendous injuries if they fall at relatively low speeds, with their skin being scraped off them. My wife used to ride a motorbike and always wore full protection even in the height of summer.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
9 Oct 18
Takes some believing for sure and maybe it was the way he fell but at that speed who can really tell?
Sometimes things happen in ways we cannot understand even though he was wearing all the right stuff.
I have seen Jorge Lorenzo a motorbike racer here get up and off at least two incidents where I thought he was done for but he was injured so it makes you think really.
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@changjiangzhibin89 (17243)
• China
10 Oct 18
Wow ! He is living on a borrowed time.The motorbike riders knew it to their cost wearing all the approved clothing and equipment before riding on the motorsbikes.
