I just saw this extraordinary video on Reddit where a motorcyclist is hit squarely by a car, cartwheels over the vehicle, and then walks away. The man must be made of rubber.
He is particularly lucky because, if you look closely, he does not appear to be wearing a helmet.
Nick:
“In the thousands of cases I’ve investigated I have never ceased to be amazed @ how people step up to the plate and help their fellow human beings in need.” It does warm the heart to see the best side of people when someone needs help.
And it’s true that elder abuse is the lowest of the low, because they cannot defend themselves, and sometimes are unable to communicate what’s happened. Prescription drug abuse is skyrocketing.
Jim, That was quick thinking. I investigated several accidents where cyclists and even unrestrained auto passengers ejected from vehicles were killed, or more seriously injured, w/ a second impact. I’m still amazed @ how many people still don’t buckle up. What REALLY pisses me off are parents who don’t buckle their kids up. Being a cycle rider I assume you are a defensive driver. I can’t count the number of cases where a car driver said to me, “I never saw him.” In the thousands of cases I’ve investigated I have never ceased to be amazed @ how people step up to the plate and help their fellow human beings in need. My hope for this guy is that he has no head injury. The other stuff, broken bones, disks, etc. pale in comparison to the life altering head injury cases.
Karen, I would get quarterly reports from the Dept. of Regulation and Licensing. They license EVERY profession in Wi. Every quarter almost all the disciplinary actions involved nurses stealing pain meds. Often times it is nursing homes. Elderly get their pain meds, money, etc. stolen from unscrupulous personnel. It is the lowest of lows who steal from the elderly!! But, many of these facilities pay low wages and you get what you pay for.
The U of Wi. has a pharmacy school. About 3 or so years ago a pharmacist who had worked there for years was busted for stealing thousands of pain meds a month over an extended period of time. He claimed they were all for personal use, but I remember doing the math and it meant this guy was taking over 100 oxy a day! How the hell can the guy crap taking that many pills a day?
Jim, yes assumptions made by uninformed people can be very harmful. I would hope those investigating this didn’t make such immediate assumptions as some here have. Some people’s instincts are quite bad and those people should not be trusted with anything that deals with human lives.
You guys are right – the motorcycle did have the right away.
Nick – what’s sad about people addicted to prescription opiates is that it often starts out with a legitimate injury. After a certain amount of time, the body becomes physically addicted. And the opiates actually start CAUSING pain. They artificially depress the pain receptors, so when they are withdrawn, those pain receptors over react. So after the injury is healed, there is still opiate-caused pain. But the addict doesn’t realize this, and keeps medicating, until he or she is reduced to doctor shopping, and all slide into deep addiction. Heartbreaking. Because it hits people who hadn’t done recreational drugs.
I followed the LA Times series on the MLK Hospital in CA. They had an absurd rash of workplace injuries – staff would fall out of chairs and go on disability. A whole rash of people just fell out of chairs. It was beyond shameful for adults to either bring on an injury, or pretend to be injured, just to get paid for nothing. One of many problems with disgraced MLK.
Did I miss something? What does PI Chris Butler have to do with the motorcycle accident. Was there a connection?
I was hit broadside by a car while one a motorcycle and having right of way on a main street. I jumped up after landing in the street because I was panicked about being run over by other cars. It is astounding how much adrenaline such an accident releases into the body and how much pain and injury that adrenaline can cover. I could barely limp the next day.
Just because someone is walking around doesn’t mean they are not severely injured. They may in fact be on the verge of death.
I am proud of the people who got out to go check on this person and render aid rather than just assume.
I couldn’t help notice the second car waiting to turn just followed along… not even looking AT the oncoming traffic… just playing “follow the leader”.
That car didn’t yield on green for the motorcycle and tried to beat it to the spot. Sadly, that’s how a lot of accidents happen and almost always the driver of the car walks.
I witnessed a similar car versus motorcycle accident in Skokie when I was waiting for a bus to go to Touhy Beach in Chicago when I was in grade school, a “couple” of years ago. The motorcycle driver was cutoff by a turning car and he did not get up and limp around. I wish he had.
Annie
Paul,
OK, go look for some, I’m busy right now.
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Paul C. Schulte
Annie – I would prefer articles about teachers killing their students.
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Um, Paul?
Don’t be thinking of making headlines…
Paul, what’s your point? Now should I go find some article about pedophile teachers? 🙄
Annie – I would prefer articles about teachers killing their students.
Paul,
OK, go look for some, I’m busy right now.
Beware of nurses in emergency rooms
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/08/21/nurse-sentenced-to-12-years-in-patient-after-trying-to-hire-patient-as-hit-man/
http://www.avvo.com/legal-guides/ugc/using-private-investigators
Using private investigators. What to be aware of.
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/sentencing-chris-butler-dirty-private-eye.html
The Dirty PI.
http://thestir.cafemom.com/in_the_news/164902/nurse_sentenced_for_infecting_dozens
Yes Paul, that’s pretty damn shameful, disgusting. Some people have no decency.
Lisa D, Are you kidding? The motorcyclist had the right of way. Who hit whom is virtually irrelevant. The violation for the driver is Failure to Yield the Right of Way. This will almost certainly result in the motorcyclists suing the auto driver. And, liability will not be an issue. The only question will be damages. The only mitigating factor on liability might be the speed of the cycle. Maybe contributory negligence of 20%, maybe. Are you a driver, Lisa?
KarenS, The fakers, and there are many, cast a pall over all people. The internet opened many peoples eyes because there are chat rooms where fakers ask for advice. I think we discussed previously this women in a chat room was claiming an occupational back injury. She had sued her employer after being fired, failed, and then made a work comp. claim. This idiot was in a chat room asking if she should ask her doc for pain meds even though she doesn’t need them. She talked about how tough she was birthing her babies w/ no meds. Work comp., personal injury, med malpractice have so many frauds, malingerers and embellishers. It makes folks who really are hurt on the defensive. Just like opiate addicts make it difficult for people really in pain. I saw many cases a toxic mix of people faking injuries. They were both addicted to pain meds and lazy malingerers. People have no clue the drag this has on our legal system. And it cost all of us. Insurance companies pass on the cost to everyone paying premiums.
The motorcyclist hit the car?
From the Florida Motorists’ Handbook, regarding making a left turn, “Make the turn, staying in the proper lane. Yield the right-of-way to vehicles (including bicycles) coming from the opposite direction.”
The motorcyclist was not making a left turn, the driver of the automobile involved in the collision was making a left turn.
For those whose study of engineering mechanics was so limited as to not include an understanding of the nature of inertial frames of reference and of non-inertial (accelerating) frames of reference, it may seem arbitrary as to who hit whom.
The incident reportedly happened in Clearwater, Florida, and Florida law would seem to me to be applicable.
I suppose one of my main defects of social character may be my proclivity for reading statutes and forming my own interpretations, perhaps because I have never been able to earn enough money to pay attorneys for their services…
Autistic people are, in my experience, may often be the object of harsh forms of prejudice… For myself, I simply reckon that non-autistic people commonly lack the brain properties required for living life in accord with rigorously truthful honesty. Those whose brains are incapable of living in accord with rigorously truthful honesty are not, in my view, at fault in any way, it is as though they were born into human society that way. So, I forgive them for the abuses they have heaped upon me, however they have done so, for I can find no fault with them for their lives or how they are able to live their lives. As for the lives of autism-lacking folks and sometimes-immense tragedy, that I do find, in abundance.
Jane – you are SO lucky to have survived such a hit as a child.
Nick – it must be hard separating the bad apple fakers from the sincerely injured, but I’m glad that separation is made.
I recall a girl who was “out on her feet” (didn’t know the term until now.) She had a horse fall under her when she was out riding alone, no helmet. She showed up an hour later at a restaurant, acting drunk. She couldn’t remember her mom’s #, or anyone else’s, except an aunt she rarely talked to. For some reason, that’s the only # she knew. She had a severe concussion. So lucky it wasn’t worse, because she drove like that.