Early this morning, A 25-year old biker led a high-speed police chase through San Diego, reaching triple-digit speeds, and ended up with him crashing into a masoleum building and dying.

The pursuit ended when he approached a tight "S" curve and lost control...

"The motorcycle struck the curb, hit a mailbox and then a building. The rider was ejected," said Baehr.

The motorcycle struck the Cypress View Mausoleum. The rider's body landed in front of the building, about 50 feet from his machine, said Baehr.

Labels: California Motorcycle Deaths

An motorcycle accident that sounds freaky, just doesn't sound all the freaky to me. And this happened just a few miles from my home...

A guy on a motorcycle was travelling down a road at night, when a driver enters the road from a right hand turn. The biker creams into the back of his car.

The driver finally makes it home to discover, to his horror, that there's a dead body stuck in his rear window.

So he drives to the nearest fire station, to have them deal with the body.

Meanwhile, the dead biker's friends are at the accident scene, wondering where his body was....

http://www.nctimes.com/..../riverside/18_04_468_28_07.txt

Making matters worse, the driver's blood alcohol level was such that he was driving illegally. Hard to say at this point, if he was inebriated, but apparently legally intoxicated.

My question is, "How could he not know that something crashed into the back of his car?"

I think he knew. He drove away from the scene knowing that he pulled out in front of an on-coming motorcycle, and the he knew the motorcycle hit him in the rear, but he opted to leave the scene because he knew he was intoxicated.

But he didn't count on finding a body stuck in his rear window.

So, "How the Hell did he not see this body stuck in the rear window as he drove home?"

Who the Hell knows!

But it looks like his butt is going to jail.

Labels: California Motorcycle Deaths

A woman was killed while riding on the back of the Harley-Davidson last Sunday, after another motorcycle ran head on into hers...

The crash occurred about 1:15 p.m., when Joe Silver Sr., a 43-year-old Tracy man riding his 1993 Suzuki motorcycle east on the two-lane road, tried to pass the vehicle in front of him, CHP Officer Tom Stewart said. Silver crossed the double yellow lines into the westbound lane just as he was going around a curve and collided with the Harley, Stewart said.

Labels: California Motorcycle Deaths, Safe Riding

I don't normally report on motorcycle rider fatalities, but this one hit home with me and several of the friends I ride with.

It happened last Friday, around 7:39am, along the I-15 through Victorville. Bien Baillargeon was struck by a hit-and-run driver, a dark-colored "truck" as we understand, while riding up to Las Vegas Bikefest. We don't know if it was a pick-up truck or larger. Details are sketchy on exactly how it happened, but the concensus seems to be that the truck hit her from behind and sent her flying off the bike.

Bien was a member of our club, and having ridden with her many times, she was a class act. The thing that I remember about her the most is that she was always positive and upbeat. She was religious, but never preached it to anyone. What's more, if there were several of us hanging out, she'd make sure she chatted with everyone.

I still have trouble accepting the notion that she's gone. It still doesn't seem real. We all spent the days and nights at Las Vegas Bikefest thinking about her, telling stories that we remember of her, and drank a toast to her memory.

Perhaps she'll be watching over our rides now, and protecting us from what dangers lie ahead. Had that been in her power, that's what she would've done for us anyways.

Labels: California Motorcycle Deaths, Las Vegas Bikefest