Desert Spyder
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Sunday, I heard of an accident involving a Spyder that occurred the Friday before just west of Barstow on old Hwy 66. Thats a mere 1700 miles fown the road from Cuba! I've included pictures including a panorama. The file attachment manager is giving me problems so here is the link to the panorama. You may have to copy and paste the url to another window or tab.
http://www.360.io/UbhPWV
I have never met the ryder before and talking to the fireman who responded he appeared not badly injured. He was flown from the scene, however, to a Level 1 Trauma Center because of the mechanism of injury.
When you open the panorama focus your attention to the dirt road behind my bike. This is where a Toyota pickup came from going to the highway. The bike was going west to east or left to right in the picture. Now it gets a little hazy how the two met as I saw no skid marks from the bike. I did talk to three witnesses, two in one vehicle, who came up to the scene after the impact.
The bike was on the paved road after the accident with plastic scattered everywhere. I saw plastic 3-4 car lengths down the shoulder of the road. The truck was stuck in the sand just in front of my bike. You can see the tire imprints in the sand along with some plastic which appears to be the point of impact. I don't know who broadsided whom or if it was a "fight or flight" moment when both veered away at the same time.
You can see a large creosote bush at the corner of the intersection. Here is another view in panorama from the pickups point of view approaching the intersection. http://360.io/E7xVYU
You can see the bush obscures the view of both vehicles until the shoulder of the highway. There are many of these O POO intersections on this stretch of highway.
Like I said earlier, the fireman at the scene said the rider did not look badly injured. I do not know his age. There are two white Spyders in the area, one a T and the other an S. I have seen them in town but they are not very friendly. The T owner is in his 60's and the S owner in his 50's. The S owner is a hot dog and the T owner pretty much stays the speed limit. I think this accident involved the T owner otherwise the injury severity may be increased.
You can draw your own conclusions from the photos. They may be different than mine. This fact remains however: all of us needs to exercise caution at all times. Most traffic accidents happen near the home giving us a false sense of security. It can happen anywhere at anytime.
I tried to post some snapshots but the attachment manager wouldn't let me. There was a red exclamation point at the end of the line with no explanation of what the problem was. The snaps were over 2 MB. Is this too big Lamont? The manager also said the URL was an invalid file. Not sure whats going on here but oh well.
http://www.360.io/UbhPWV
I have never met the ryder before and talking to the fireman who responded he appeared not badly injured. He was flown from the scene, however, to a Level 1 Trauma Center because of the mechanism of injury.
When you open the panorama focus your attention to the dirt road behind my bike. This is where a Toyota pickup came from going to the highway. The bike was going west to east or left to right in the picture. Now it gets a little hazy how the two met as I saw no skid marks from the bike. I did talk to three witnesses, two in one vehicle, who came up to the scene after the impact.
The bike was on the paved road after the accident with plastic scattered everywhere. I saw plastic 3-4 car lengths down the shoulder of the road. The truck was stuck in the sand just in front of my bike. You can see the tire imprints in the sand along with some plastic which appears to be the point of impact. I don't know who broadsided whom or if it was a "fight or flight" moment when both veered away at the same time.
You can see a large creosote bush at the corner of the intersection. Here is another view in panorama from the pickups point of view approaching the intersection. http://360.io/E7xVYU
You can see the bush obscures the view of both vehicles until the shoulder of the highway. There are many of these O POO intersections on this stretch of highway.
Like I said earlier, the fireman at the scene said the rider did not look badly injured. I do not know his age. There are two white Spyders in the area, one a T and the other an S. I have seen them in town but they are not very friendly. The T owner is in his 60's and the S owner in his 50's. The S owner is a hot dog and the T owner pretty much stays the speed limit. I think this accident involved the T owner otherwise the injury severity may be increased.
You can draw your own conclusions from the photos. They may be different than mine. This fact remains however: all of us needs to exercise caution at all times. Most traffic accidents happen near the home giving us a false sense of security. It can happen anywhere at anytime.
I tried to post some snapshots but the attachment manager wouldn't let me. There was a red exclamation point at the end of the line with no explanation of what the problem was. The snaps were over 2 MB. Is this too big Lamont? The manager also said the URL was an invalid file. Not sure whats going on here but oh well.
