I was coming home last night from Brandon and right past the Ybor Exit on the way back to tampa where that big overpass with the sharp corner is was about 3 cars pulled on the side of the road...then i noticed a older Gsxr yellow/purple off to the side of the road surrounded by oil....I looked over and noticed a girl face down in the road not moving at all......So we pulled over since there was no ambulance or anything there yet...

She was unconsious but still breathing we could tell by her back moving...Her helmet was twisted around on her head and i couldnt see her face only could see blood coming from the helmet all over the ground..But i knew not to move her or do anything so we waited for the ambulance....when they got there they took off her helmet and her face was covered in blood......I was talking to the Driver of the motorcycle who was CLEARLY intoxicated and smelt badly of alchohol....Im not sure if he was just in shock or what but he was acting totaly fine..Not even worried aobut his passenger...He didnt even look like he went down only a small scuff on his jacket..I could tell the girl collided with the wall....

I asked him what happened and he was so drunk he didnt even know.....i also asked what her name was and if he knew how to get a hold of her parents and he said he didnt know her name.....Just thought it was really weird he didnt even ask medics where she was going and just stood next to her smoking a ciggarette blowing smoke at her while she lay on the ground....It was really messed up....Apparently he came around that corner and was going really fast and hit this guys car that was in the other lane and then lost control...

Just wondering if anybody knows who it was....Would like to know if the girl made it.....

 

Damn it pisses me off to see riders with passengers when they clearly shouldnt. Sounds like this guy was really risking it. I would think he was in shock or had trauma like a concision if he didnt know her name or anything.

 

I think he was just acting stupid.....I asked if it was his girlfreind and he said no and i said how do u know her and he said she was just a freind so i asked what her name was and he thought about it for a minute and he was like i really dont remember?

 

The guy was hiding something... think she might have been under age?

 

either that or he just picked her up at the bar.

 

No excuses for riding wrecklessly with a passenger, especially while DUI, but I cannot believe how quickly passengers will get on a bike with someone they barely know. Not sure if they just don't realize they are putting their lives on the line or what, but getting in the passenger seat of a car and getting on the back of a bike are not even in the same ball park. Too bad more people don't realize that.

Best wishes to the passenger and I hope the rider got a DUI at the very least!

 

any updates?

 

This reminds me of the incident that made me think twice about ever riding around with my girlfriend on the back of my bike. I was out for a ride on some random Wednesday night and happened to ride down Anderson over by the movie theater. There was a group of four bikes that pulled out in front of me, all with passengers. I fell in line with them as I really didn't have anywhere in particular I was going. It took about two stop lights to realize two of the four couldn't ride worth a damn. Not like couldn't drag knee or float a wheelie, like couldn't figure out they needed to pull the clutch in when they stopped to keep the engine from stalling. I was thinking, these girls must not know these guys or they don't realize they cannot ride or something, because I wouldn't get on the back of one of these bikes for even a block if you paid me.

So after a few more minutes of riding a safe distance from these two that couldn't ride, we all stopped at a gas station to fill up. I started talking to the two guys that could ride and asked what was up with their friends. They said they had both just bought there bikes that morning and had never ridden before in their lives until that afternoon. The girls were from out of town and they had just met them at the movie theater and offered to take them for a ride.

I started talking to the girls they were with and all but one seemed completely oblivious to the danger. The one that did seem to care asked her friend if they could switch bikes as her friend was on the back of one of the guys that could ride. Her friend didn't want to switch so I offered to ride her back as they were supposed to go back to the theater to drop them off at their cars. She agreed and off we went but instead of heading back toward the theater the lead bikes headed off toward the Interstate.

So to make a long story at least a little bit shorter, the guys that "could ride" decided they were going to start showing off by slowing down then cracking it open, popping the clutch to pull the front wheel up a little bit, etc. All this with these girls, who are now terrified, on the back. When they finally take the exit ramp, the lead bikes take it fast and of course the idiots that never rode before try to keep up. Finally the inevitable happens and the guy that no longer has a girl on his bike losses it and goes flying off the side of the ramp, down the embankment, through some bushes, and into a tree. The guy behind him sees this and panicks, low siding his bike with the girl on the back.

Just out of pure luck everyone walked away with minor bumps, bruises, scrapes, etc. I ended up riding the girl on the back of my bike back to her car and then followed her back to the scene of the accident to pick up her friends. Needless to say, I doubt that group of girls ever got back on bikes. The whole incident made me really look at how willing people are to just hop on the back of a bike without any consideration to the risks involved. None of these people, guys or girls, had any gear, not even helmets. It would have been so easy for things to have ended up really bad for them.

In fact, it made me decide I wasn't going to ride with my girl on the back anymore except for slow rides around side streets in the neighborhood. I consider myself a safe rider and all, but it is just too easy for something to happen. I am glad I made that decision so long ago too as I have been down twice since then, once my fault once not my fault, and I couldn't even imagine how bad I would have felt if I had taken my girl down with me. It is one thing to fuck up and break my bones. I have nobody to blame but myself, but I'm not sure I could live with myself if I broke her bones or worse.

I guess the moral of the story is since the passengers don't seem to understand what they are getting into when they hop on the back of your bike, it is your responsibility to keep them safe. Either don't let them ride, or make damn sure they understand what they are getting themselves into before you take off down the Interstate like you are a super hero.

 

^ holy shit.

While ignorance is no excuse...I hope you dont mind if i copypasta that story around. It speaks volumes on how people think.

I had a friend who was somehow convinced, (even though he said it half jokingly, i'm pretty sure he felt this way...) that getting a motorcyle would make him "cool" and that "girls will go crazy about it"...

Its usually the people that get a nice bike because their friends have one, or because they really do want to feel "cool".

Also, that girl passenger is a fucking DumbAss for getting on a bike with someone who is drunk. No excuses. No exceptions. No sympathy.

 

I havent heard or found out anything yet thats why i was hoping somebody here would know these people;...The Driver told the paramedics that the girl had like 5 drinks....So apparently they were both drinking......

Sometimes people dont realize how dangerous the bikes are to begin with...then you make a careless decision and look what happens.....

I dont know the whole story of what happened before the accident i was only there after so im not gonna pass judgement on anybody...I still hope the girl recovers...People Do make mistakes.....Some make bigger mistakes then others but no need to wish somebody be hurt over it.....

Clearly i Blame the Driver totaly because he was the one driving! He should of known better....The girl was an idiot yes she put her life in his hands......


The girl looked young from what i could tell.......But i dont know how long her face was pretty bloody couldnt see much.........So who knows?