re: '"I didn't see him, I didn't see him" She told the cops.'
I don't bother telling people that motorcycles are dangerous. I figure they already know, and my telling them isn't going to make any difference.
But, thanks to my internet connections, I've known more than my share of folks who were KILLED on motorcycles. A friend named "Strider," was hit and killed by a car back when I was in college. He was just half a street from his home, on a residential road, when he bumped a car. And that was that.
Last month marked the 1-year anniversary of the death of one of my brother's AND mother-in-law's closest friends. They knew the guy independently, in a pretty remarkable coincidence, and I had the unpleasant task of giving my brother the news after my mother-in-law informed me. He was out on a Sunday drive, enjoying beautiful weather and scenery near Yosemite, when a car blew a light as he was making a turn and knocked him about 100 feet.
I used to have a street-legal dirtbike (a Honda 125x, or something like that.). It was a little thing with a top speed of about 60. I had a couple of accidents - including a rear-wheel blowout and going down due to a sandy road on a curve, somewhere close to Tahoe. Either might have been serious; neither was. But I gave it up when, one day on Madison Avenue, the driver of a car alongside me at a stop light told me that the car immediately behind me had changed into my lane and missed me 'by about a foot.'
At that point I decided that motorcycles weren't for me. It doesn't matter how cautious I might be, you see. OTHER folks aren't cautious. And in virtually any accident involving a car, the motorcyclist is going to lose.
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