OT- Nick O'Leary (FSU, Nicklaus grandson) motorcycle crash. He's fine.
Damn this is scary.
From the FSU blog Tomahawk Nation. Local bus dashboard-cam video of Jack Nicklaus' grandson Nick O'Leary (FSU tight end) running into an amazingly stupid Lexus driver. Had he not walked away from the crash, I don't think I'd ever post something like this. Please be careful, everybody. Car drivers; watch for motorcycles and be careful. Motorcyclists; watch for stupid drivers and be careful.
http://www.tomahawknation.com/florida-state-football-fsu-noles/2013/7/2…
btw; it is the motorcyle, not young Mr. O'Leary, that shatters the bus window in the video.
I saw this on buzzfeed yesterday and watched it at least 5 times. Kid got lucky.
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"The passenger and driver exchange words, before the young passenger departs the bus and makes his way around the front to retrieve his bike. If he was out in front just a second or two earlier, he easily could have been struck by the motorcycle."
Glad to know that O'Leary is OK and was fortunate enough to be able to walk away like that - that looked absolutely terrifying when I first saw it. Really, glad to see that no one was apparently seriously hurt in this. Wow...that's all I could say after seeing that video.
...its always a Gixxer, always a Gixxer.
On a more serious note; thank god he is ok. I would like to know what the f*ck that Lexus driver was doing. He had to have seen him coming and just froze (albeit without hitting the brakes), judging from the angle of the car he was about to hit the bus!
Logged in just to down-vote you, sir!
If you actually rode a motorcycle on a street in America you would know that with each and every ride there are a series of life-threatening obstacles in our path each day, the vast majority of which are terrible drivers. I do not deny there are a few ass-hat motorcyclists out there, but much fewer than hundreds of ass-hat drivers I encounter each day.
Now think about what you said and go sit in the corner.
Don't be offended just because you may ride a motorcycle
"Alcohol continues to be a factor in motorcycle fatalities. In 2011, 42 percent of motorcycle riders who died in single-vehicle crashes had blood alcohol concentration (BAC) levels of .08 or higher, higher than any other type of driver."
Nuff said
That would be shocking if it said 100% of motorcycle riders drink alcohol while driving. Drinking is involved in a large percentage of automobile fatalities too, so what's your point. What if only 0.1% of riders drink? Would this make it more, or less shocking? There are idiots in every crowd so don't lump all bikers in the same category. No I'm not a motorcycle rider myself.
Just -1 for saying retards. You lost me there
appears to be traveling way to fast for that road. Very lucky man.
He didn't appear to be traveling any faster than the white car that came before him. Then again, any time something like that enters your path and you hit it, the case can always be made that you were going too fast.
My question is where in the hell was the Lexus going? The angle she/he took was stoopid to make a left turn and sure as hell wasn't proceeding to the right. If straight was an option, it would have seemed as though the BUS IN THE WAY would have prompted the Lexus to wait another few seconds for it to pass.
He's going way faster than the white car. They slow the video down once it cuts to the crash. You can tell from the time stamp at the bottom and the fact that it starts skipping from frame to frame.
I used to live near there, as I remember the speed limit on that road is either 40 or 45mph, hard to tell from the video, but he could very easily be doing around that.
I live in Tallahassee. The speed limit is 30mph and he was said to be going up to 80mph right before the collision.
Not saying that the car driver isn't at fault here, but it also looks like an inexperienced/unaware rider that was going way too fast played a lot in to this crash.
As a rider, you have to understand that it's incredibly easy for cars to misjudge your closing speed. If you pause it at around 9-10 sec in, the rider appears to be a pretty small speck in the distance. If you were able to see the same angle 1-2 seconds earlier when the car first started moving, the rider would be damn near out of site. This rider was going entirely too fast for the road he was on which doesn't leave him enough time to react to the conditions in front of him.
An experienced rider would have seen that there was a bus in the road (limited sight distance) and an intersection coming up and adjusted his speed accordingly. Typically when I see that there is a car waiting to enter the road, at the very least I will cover my front brake with my fingers so that I am ready to start braking at a moments notice. He has at least 2-3 seconds between when the car starts moving and the collision. If he had been more aware and going a safer speed, he could have easily brought the speed of the bike down a lot more and likely avoided the incident entirely. Instead, it looks like he doesn't even start braking until the car is about halfway into his lane, at which point its too late. All he has time to do is grab a handful of brake which sends him over the handlebars and into the road.