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Student Biker Drinks with Instructor and Crashes

by Steve
Tuesday, February 01, 2005

Cambridge News Online reports today that in last September a student motorcycle rider crashed her bike and died, after drinking at a bar with her riding instructor. The two had stopped at a bar for drinks, and she apparently drank enough to give her a blood-alcohol level of 1.5 times the legal limit.

When the two took off, the instructor managed to turn a corner safely, but she didn't, and crashed her bike.

When asked by Coroner Dr Samuel Bass, assistant deputy coroner, if it was not bad practice for driving instructors to take a pupil to a pub to drink alcohol before a lesson, Pc Breeze said the pair had not been engaged in formal instruction, and that they were friends.
Still, when you're teaching a newbie how to ride a motorcycle for the first time, any biker knows that prepping a student with alcohol is bad news.

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1 Comments:

  • It is a little misleading to call this guy an "Instructor". It was one friend teaching another to ride. Just because you are good at riding doesn't mean you are a good teacher. When my wife learned to ride I knew exactly how to teach her, send her to the MSF course. Let the professionals do their job. No professional instructor would even think about drinking before riding.

    By Blogger James Allgood, at 2/01/2005 11:08:00 AM  

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