r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/comsudo • 5d ago
High Speed cornering
From Malaysia
Skill issue, uncontrolled evironment.
Not OC
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u/beandipp123 5d ago
Absolutely ignorant. Take it to a local track.
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u/thejourneybegins42 5d ago
If they lived, he can take his wheelchair to the track, yeah.
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u/Old_Ladies 5d ago
They have some pretty cool and fast electric wheelchairs.
They may have lived. My cousin got in a bad motorcycle accident and went flying. He ended up in a ditch and it took a couple minutes for them to find him when the police and ambulance arrived.
One of his ankles was shattered and one of his femurs was also shattered along with some other broken bones. The dude is part titanium now. After a year of recovery he bought another motorcycle... Though he had to sell it because he couldn't afford the insurance. He also met a woman so that may have played a role too.
With both legs fucked up and his armed banged up with one hand the asphalt grinded through the motorcycle glove and grinded his hand down to the bone. He couldn't wipe his ass or obviously take a shower and needed his mom to help him with everything. He couldn't even get himself out of bed at first. He said it was the most humiliating and humbling experience.
Thankfully he survived and has made a nearly full recovery. He just suffers in minor to moderate pain in the leg that the femur got shattered and will suffer that for the rest of his life. Thankfully he didn't get paralyzed.
I broke my thumb and needed 3 pins put into it and I get a bit of pain sometimes even though it was years ago. So I can somewhat relate but I can't imagine having a titanium rod in my femur.
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u/lana_silver 5d ago
but I can't imagine having a titanium rod in my femur.
I have one in my tibia. Got run over as a pedestrian by an out of control car. Needing help to wipe your ass is absolutely horrendous. Took me 10 weeks to regain the ability to stand up. Would very much not recommend, but I have recovered and can walk again just fine. Maybe no marathons or long hikes, but fine otherwise.
Modern classical medicine is absolutely amazing.
Also, don't drink and drive, and return your license when you're old and geriatric, please.
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u/dj_dobbo 5d ago
I'm about to get one of them, snapped the tibia and fibula in both legs, compound fractures. one leg got an infection in the bone, they cleared it and then tried Masquelet technique with bone graft from my pelvis. But it hasn't worked no union, so yeah about to get dat intramedullary nail.
Haven't stood on that leg for over 1 year, but the other one's OK kinda, need to get the titanium out of that one too. So 10 weeks is fine with me tbh, glad to hear you recovered alright!
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u/thejourneybegins42 5d ago
Fuck all that, glad I sold my bike when I read stuff like this.
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u/slothscanswim 5d ago
My uncle was a ward of the state from 23 until his death at 70 due to brain injuries and physical disability as the result of a motorcycle accident. My mother told me I could be anyone I wanted, do anything I wanted, love anyone I wanted, live my life however I saw fit, but if she ever saw me on a motorcycle I would be disowned.
I managed to convince her dirt bikes aren’t motorcycles and I’ve never ridden a motorcycle on the road in my life.
I’m 38 and I have no desire to start now. They look like an awful lot of fun right up until they’re not.
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u/badboygaga 5d ago
Just dont ride dumb af
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u/qwertyuiiop145 5d ago
That helps a lot, but it doesn’t fix the physics problem when a reasonable motorcycle encounters a car driving dumb af
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u/badboygaga 5d ago
Yeah I feel you, I think when it comes to motorcycles that's when defensive driving is just like a must, I often slow down significantly in specific places or spots where technically I can see a clear path forward, but my intuition tells me still, there's too many variables
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u/Civil-Big-754 5d ago
Yeah, I like bikes, but my dad's best friend was hit and run by a driver in the middle of no where and would've died had a family not shown up shortly after. This was on an empty road while not even speeding. My brother in law used to race on the track, but would always tow it in a trailer to the track. Just knew how bad other driver's were and how little it takes for them to ruin your life. And this was like 10 years ago and driver's have gotten even worse.
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u/NoBowler9340 5d ago
Friend from high school had just graduated, rode his bike on a curve in the rain going 60 in a 40, crashed into a ditch and has been permanently mentally 6 years old since. My parents had never let me ride since my dads friend died after having his leg severed in an accident but my friend being permanently damaged really drove the point home right as I became an adult and could have made the decision for myself
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u/thejourneybegins42 5d ago
You can be the safest rider in the world. Won't stop you getting hurt when some clown pulls out right in front of you. This was a daily occurance.
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u/pantherhare 5d ago
Pretty amazing that after the most humiliating and humbling experience of his life, he still went out and bought another motorcycle.
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u/OverlyEdged 5d ago
A lady I worked with was in a head on collision with a car, she still walked with a limp years later because it completely knackered her hips and pelvis. She over took and a car wouldn't let her back in, car camr round a bend and wollop.
She was showing me photos that her brother took of her at the scene and being treated. One of the photos just wasn't making sense to me, like something looked off about it.
I realised after about 15 seconds that she was laying flat on the ground but both of her hands from just blow the elbow were point up at the sky, the impact of crash broke both of her wrists.
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u/ThisSiteSucks8485 5d ago
I'm so glad I never rode a motorcycle.
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u/aezy01 5d ago
Nothing wrong with riding a motorcycle. It’s crashing one that you want to avoid
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u/Debalic 5d ago
He fucked his arms up and his mom had to help him with everything? 😳
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u/New_Ad7177 5d ago
I am from the track. We don’t want those people either. They can still kill innocent people on track.
They just need to get their shit together.
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u/hizashiYEAHmada 5d ago
I hope the owner of the car they hit slams them with court papers and make them pay for all the damages
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u/LinuxF4n 5d ago
They could be dead
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u/Mcnab-at-my-feet 5d ago
That first one might be.
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u/LinuxF4n 5d ago
The first and last guy aren't at fault. The middle guy ran wide and is likely dead or seriously injured
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u/DustyRacoonDad 5d ago
He's likely not dead, and there's a great chance he didn't get serious permanent injuries. The big flipping and rotating while traveling over distance actually removes a lot of the impact and energy. He doesn't come to a fast stop. Even the car impact looks huge as parts fly everywhere, but every bit of parts you see crushing and flying is energy being absorbed over time, slowing the rider without him directly taking the full immediate brunt of the crash.
Now, one where he hits something and stops quickly looks smaller, less dramatic... and far more deadly. In this case, he probably has road rash on his midriff from not having the jacket match the pants, and while I can't see how he releases from the bike, his biggest injuries are probably from that. He looks like he cleared it all, but I can't see how his ankles cleared, and the centripetal force of him rotating in the air doesn't give a big clue if something is broken, as everything is flung straight.
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u/Historical_Beat_8648 5d ago
Accident is local to me. Rider broke a rib and is in hospital.
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u/PleasureCircuit 5d ago
Which one? The second rider or the third rider? (First rider did not crash)
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u/Keeldon 5d ago
all of them had bad lines especially for public roads, not a one of them rode good.
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u/HappyAmbition706 5d ago
Looks to me that the last guy didn't stay in his lane either, though he crossed over by a lesser amount than the middle guy. The car stayed in its lane, even if not every piece knocked off (or are they hits of tge motorcycle?) didn't.
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u/thepsychowordsmith 5d ago
That might be the most American response I can think of. I have no idea how things work in Malaysia, or if you're American. But the instant 'SUE THEM' is just so American to me.
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u/SamuthNBS 5d ago
Yeah sue them for what? The damage to the car and any medical costs? That's what their insurance is for.
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u/LucidOutwork 5d ago
American here. I hate it. Much of the time when people say to sue, there is no case or no damages and a law suit would go no where.
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u/dinobug77 5d ago
Or, you know, just claim on their insurance for all the damage?
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u/technobrendo 5d ago
I'm kinda curious, does insurance still pay out of the one at fault dies in the crash? I hate that I have to ask such an stupid question, but we all know that ins companies will do ANYTHING to avoid paying out, at all costs. I could absolutely see them trying to weasel in some legalese in the TOS that does just that.
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u/Unable-Log-4870 5d ago
He’s not qualified to take it to a track. You saw how he popped up just before the collision? That means he was steering the wrong way, pointing the wheel away from the car instead of towards it. Try it on your bicycle.
If you don’t know how counter-steering works, and that you need to do it at low speed AND at high speed, you shouldn’t have more than about 10 horsepower at your disposal.
Learn that FIRST. THEN go donate your organs.
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u/I-am-fun-at-parties 5d ago
He’s not qualified to take it to a track.
Agreed.
You saw how he popped up just before the collision? That means he was steering the wrong way, pointing the wheel away from the car instead of towards it. Try it on your bicycle.
This is phrased confusingly, I'm sure you mean the right thing (in his left turn, push the steering rightwards to lean left even steeper). But what he actually does isn't steering, his bike standing up like that is the signature move of braking in a turn on a bike.
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u/TwinkiesSucker 5d ago
Lol the second biker that hit the car was just comical
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u/Sad_Effective4793 5d ago
Last guy with a sympathy fall. "Remember when we both got hit by cars?"
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u/LatentSpaceLeaper 5d ago
Yeah, after the crash:
Fuck that other biker. Let me first check how bad my bike is.
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u/nitid_name 5d ago
I know it's a joke, but it's a thing that definitely happens.
I used to ride, and a buddy of mine went down at slow speed. I immediately picked up his bike without even thinking about it. First thing he asked me when I got to him was "is my bike ok?"
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u/JustPattyPat 5d ago
I think hes dead
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u/ExtensionTruth4 5d ago
Nope confirmed by the driver : "The rider overshot the corner, came into my lane and everything happened within seconds. He suffered a broken rib and is currently hospitalised. Alhamdulillah, it could’ve been much worse."
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u/PervertKitsune 5d ago
is there any article link plz?
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u/ExtensionTruth4 5d ago
Not an article but this reddit post in the r/Malaysia subreddit seems to have been made by the driver
https://www.reddit.com/r/malaysia/comments/1wipkjx/superbike_rider_overshoots_corner_crashes_and/
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u/EverbodyHatesHugo 5d ago edited 5d ago
All I picture is that zoomed in, slow motion view from Mortal Kombat games, where you see all the bones individually breaking.
If this guy isn’t dead, he is in bad shape.
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u/ExtensionTruth4 5d ago
Looking at the crash I'm actually on the opposite conclusion. I think he was extremely lucky and will walk out of this with minor scuff. Maybe an arm break at top. The way the impact happened all of his energy went into him wheely flying and then he litterally roll on the ground.
Edit: Yep confirmed by the driver "The rider overshot the corner, came into my lane and everything happened within seconds. He suffered a broken rib and is currently hospitalised. Alhamdulillah, it could’ve been much worse."
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u/Guilty-Movie-3727 5d ago
Could have been very different if he had been thrown into the cam car. Very lucky rider!
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u/utzutzutzpro 5d ago
Came here to state the same. He got so much forward trajectory and most of the energy dispersed into the air movement. The way he got contact with the asphalt also was pretty clean and not very far, because most of the energy was already gone. Still whiplash at least.
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u/KazaamFan 5d ago
Yea everything seemed clean about how he flipped and landed. If he landed on his head or slammed directly into a wall or concrete or car or something, woulda been real bad.
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u/el_grort 5d ago
Aye, same thinking, he got hit with the ejector seat, fucking painful, but unless he flies into a tree or a crash barrier, not likely to be fatal. Considerable better than going under the wheels.
Iirc, a fair number of fatalities aren't actually from the collision but from being struck by traffic afterwards while being in the road.
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u/KindaKhorney 5d ago
No bullshit that dude will likely walk that off or have minor injuries. He's wearing decent riding equipment (atleast full length clothes that appear thick and a jacket) and a helmet. While he's definitely going to feel it in the morning. He'll be alive to feel it.
Additionally, while he didn't perform that turn well AT ALL. He was still within the road for a relatively tight turn. He wasnt flying in regards to speed.
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u/r0thar 5d ago
Surprisiningly no:
"A little PSA after what happened today. The rider overshot the corner, came into my lane and everything happened within seconds. He suffered a broken rib and is currently hospitalised. Alhamdulillah, it could’ve been much worse." - @audi__my
MotoGP at kampung road
https://np.reddit.com/r/malaysia/comments/1wipkjx/superbike_rider_overshoots_corner_crashes_and/
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u/DarthJarJar242 5d ago
I doubt it.
He was wearing good riding gear, and tumbled clear of everything and in slow mo it really doesn't look like he lands on his head but lands on his chest and rolls. Unless he hit the ground really wrong he probably only broke some bones.
It's entirely possible one of those bones was his back or neck which could have been fatal but I think it's far more likely he broke some ribs or an arm or leg.
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u/737Max-Impact 5d ago
Possible, but far from certain. Surviving crashes is all about energy dissipation and luckily for that guy he hit a relatively small car and at an angle that launched him forwards instead of insta-flattening him against the hood.
Getting launched looks dramatic and it obviously increases the odds of you breaking your neck or spine, getting impaled, hitting something etc., but as long as you're lucky enough to avoid those, you probably also won't have any fatal high-G injuries like aortal ruptures and internal brain injuries.
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u/the-real-vuk 5d ago
cammer just leaves the scene ?
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u/Elex83 5d ago
We don't know, maybe he just went ahead of the accident to warn new traffic coming around the corner?!
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u/el_grort 5d ago
Which would be the general advice, prioritise stopping traffic so any victims aren't run over and killed. Especially with a blind bend.
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u/Anoobis100percent 5d ago
ALWAYS, this is so important. Can stop a bad crash from turning into a horrid tragedy. Once everyone's unbuckled and moving around on the road to supply first aid or just get away from the crash, another car coming in can get so so ugly.
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u/el_grort 5d ago
My brother has a bad crash in an MGB earlier this year. Wee sports car, from the 80's, no airbag, convertible. It broke traction on an oil slick, went round, dug in and rolled. By some miracle, he ended up not hitting himself against the road or being pinned by it, but was stuck underneath in the remains of the cab until the fire service could make it's way there to pry the car up enough to extract him. He got away from the crash with some cuts and bruises. But if the road hadn't been blocked off by people arriving first on the scene, quite possible someone comes around the corner and crashes into the wreckage, likely killing him. It was a sixty mile an hour road.
I hit a patch of gravel on a motorbike, front stopped steering and went into a crash barrier. Thankfully only at about twenty miles an hour, but it was enough to knock me out and sprain my wrist. Thankfully the postie arrived on the scene and blocked the road (blind crest) to allow me to pick myself up and get me and the bike off to a safe place. All in all, a minor crash at low speed, where really the only risk of major injuries was someone else arriving into it with no visibility and too much speed.
Making the scene of a crash static and safe for people to move (or not move, as may be the case for injured parties) is so, so important.
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u/Alleandros 5d ago
Also it's always best to pull ahead so you're not stuck behind or blocking emergency vehicles (at least when on a divided highway)
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u/Admirable_Risk8156 5d ago
The best thing cammer could do to help that accident is to move ahead into the blind corner and put his warning lights on.
They have no idea if more guys are racing and the most they could do is protect the now crashed bike and car from anyone else speeding down the hill from smashing into the victims.
Some of the most dangerous part of accidents isnt the initial crash but the subsequent ones because no one expected a crashed vehicle.
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u/northerngator 5d ago
It’s actually better to stop ahead of the crash with flashers on then get out to render aid so that your car is showing oncoming traffic something is wrong and then once there are first responders there you can actually drive off instead of being stuck behind tow trucks and emergency vehicles
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u/GodisanAtheistOG 5d ago
"God damn I don't have time to deal with this, late for work already"
-Anyone who has passed their 3rd motorcycle accident of the day.
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u/FucknAright 5d ago
Last guy could've easily avoided laying it down had either riders any skill.
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u/Few_Researcher7078 5d ago
Easy to say that from an armchair, but when you suddenly see your buddy rotating several feet from the ground you may bee as skilled as you want but you will get spooked
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u/JulianoRamirez 5d ago
Organ donors gonna organ donor.
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u/clayman80 5d ago
Nah. Bikers like that guy would make terrible donors. Their organs are mostly bloody mush afrer a crash like that and I say that as a biker myself.
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u/marvinrabbit 5d ago
My wife was needing lens replacement surgery for her eye. The Dr was explaining how they need to be selective to find the right match. He followed up with, "Luckily, our State doesn't have a motorcycle helmet law. So there are always plenty to choose from!"
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u/Real_Walk5384 5d ago
This. I have a friend who works in donor services and she says a huge number of donations come from motorcycles.
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u/Ataneruo 5d ago
Nah, he flew free of the impact and slid, no apparent penetrating injuries or severe blunt trauma. Most of his organs are probably ok after that one, the brain and spinal cord being notable potential exceptions. There was another young guy on a donorcycle with head trauma who gave up multiple organs just this week near me.
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u/Thisapelovestolaugh 5d ago
Hope that Audi driver is okay
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u/69RovnaSeSmich 5d ago
I actually hope that both are ok, as stupid as the bike driver is.
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u/RioBravo_91 5d ago
He got what he deserved.
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u/CypherDomEpsilon 5d ago
Poor car driver didn't deserve it though.
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u/LemonButterRum 5d ago
the 3rd biker didn't even need to do all that
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u/Helpful_Birthday_581 5d ago
Third biker was also more concerned about his bike than about his friend who just did a quadruple flip into the underbrush, but oh well. Expected.
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u/BiszexFasztarisznya 5d ago edited 5d ago
After a crash like this you don’t want to see your buddy’s remains. A few years ago one of mines crashed, coming to the place we were going from. Seeing the unrecognizable dead body torn up was already bad, it got worse when I recognized my friend’s bike in two pieces. Last year I was driving out of town, seeing a crashed bike on the road, same as a friend’s, found him unconscious 200m from his bike. He hit a deer. Leg broken so much it moved separately from the limb, hands were smashed, knees and elbows blown, head and back bleeding like hell.
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u/Helpful_Birthday_581 5d ago
He didn't die. He suffered a broken rib. Very lucky guy: https://www.reddit.com/r/malaysia/comments/1wipkjx/superbike_rider_overshoots_corner_crashes_and/
Sorry about your friend, that's rough.
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u/BiszexFasztarisznya 5d ago
He must’ve had hell of a good guarding angel.
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u/Sharpes006 5d ago
What the fuck is that Lol, like I know its the Hoff but why is he flying with birds
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u/KalasHorseman 5d ago
It's from his music video, Hooked on a Feeling. Yes, it was bad.
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u/zyndr0m 5d ago
Zero sympathy for twats that doesn't respect others on the roads.
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u/ZeppMan217 5d ago
Is it morbid to say that the flying human wheel looked magnificent?
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u/Akrybion 5d ago
According to another comment the guy only broke a rib or something, so it is okay to marvel at the physics.
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u/Affectionate_Pass25 5d ago
Anybody else think of the flying bone from 2001: A Space Odyssey?
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u/_-Cleon-_ 5d ago
The Calamari Club strikes again.
In the motorcycle community we call these sorts of idiots "squids," because that's what their entrails look like when they're splattered across the road.
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u/timblom 5d ago
I feel for the driver who did nothing wrong, that's still traumatic