I came a long a few minutes after the crash, I was on my way to Washington & Lee University in Lexington to join the protest of the removal of the regimental Confederate battle flags from Robert E Lee's tomb.

It was a horrible crash scene as we slowly rode by

The driver of a motorcycle is dead after crashing into a Honda Civic in Nelson County over the weekend.
Saturday morning, State Police say 66-year-old Peggy Arnold was turning from Route 29 Northbound onto Route 56, when she turned into the path of the motorcycle.
Forty-seven-year-old Michael Murphy of Annapolis, Maryland, couldn't stop in time, and slammed into the vehicle.
Murphy died at the scene.
Arnold is charged with reckless driving.

 

That sucks. Thats a wide open intersection, no reason for her to cut in front of him. Everyday is gift...

 

Statistically the major cause of most MC crashes is the left turn in front of an oncoming bike. Very sad though

 

Lock her up. Until they start sending these left-turning motorists to jail for not yielding to traffic, this will continue to happen.

 

Just don't get it at all.

I was in my car and making a left hand turn and an approaching HD (road king) was coming up on the intersection.


I just cant justify not seeing this MC w/ 3 lights on it...no way to miss it.


I just don't get it.


One of the other posters here a few months ago on a earlier thread was saying (he was an eye doc) that some people are unable to tell depth and think that the approaching object is farther away than they actually are...or its may be cell phone, texters and/or impatient losers.

 

And there's my first pick. Most people are so much in a hurry to go nowhere quickly that they make left-hand turns half asleep, then swear they never saw the oncoming vehicle. And I'm sure they really didn't, since they drive so much with the phone to their ear, eyes off the road to text, and their head up their butt.

I'm not going to quote the specifics here (Sonoma County, CA) from a weekend accident, but essentially the same thing: vehicle made a left-hand turn in front of a motorcycle and the motorcyclist died before getting air-lifted to the second hospital. I feel that there should be a higher vehicle code & criminal penalty when any vehicle makes a left-hand turn in front of a motorcycle and it causes an accident since the motorcyclist is completely defenseless, having no seatbelt, air bags or any other safety equipment available to help prevent death.

 

Apparently the driver made a u turn in front of the Harley on Chapman hiway. Motorcyle driver died his passenger was hospitalized. Rider was only 23.

 

Sadly it will be a ticket and a slap on the hand. If the bureaucrats are serious about accidents and driving they would have all ready done something about it. There are people that do far worse incidents in a cage on purpose and get a reprimand and a fine. It's sad really. There are so many people that drive around with no insurance, or a drivers license no wonder all these things happen.
You see the bad driving , the inattentive driving. The drivers that are on your *** expecting you to run the yellow light. Then mad at you when you don't. And that's just in little ol Idaho never mind a huge city, must be way, way worse.

 

so sad, so uncalled for. makes feel ill. prayers to his family

 

It was bad, she evidently pulled right out in front of him, strange thing was they were both from Maryland, I am guessing maybe she was lost and trying to turn around, it is a divided highway there with 2 lanes on each side. They say the bike was a 2009 FLHT, I could not tell it was so smashed up, all I could see were the hard black bags so I knew it was a bagger. It was on my mind all day, seeing a body covered in the road, I stopped just up the road at a gas station, got something to drink and gather my thoughts. I just want to know why she was not charged with invoulantry manslaughter, I mean just a reckless driving ticket? We read about things like this all the time, but to actually see the aftermath first hand.........