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Motorcyclist seriously injured in wrong-way Fenway crash
By adamg on Mon, 04/10/2023 - 4:46pm
Ben Chase reports he saw a motorcyclist heading outbound on Boylston Street in front of the old Tasty Burger in the Fenway slam head on into a van on the other side of the street, around 2:40 p.m. The one saving grace: EMTs were basically right there and immediately got to work.
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Riding a wheelie,
speeding and crossed into the oncoming lane.
I was driving behind a yoyo on a motorcycle who was jumping onto his seat while riding.
I stayed far behind him. If that jackass wants to wipe out, I'm not going to be party to his idiocy.
I don't want to sound callous but if that biker in this story wasn't riding like a jackass, he likely wouldn't have crashed head-on into the van. Hard to feel sorry for him.
From the photo
The van looks like it was traveling inbound in the left inbound lane. So did the motorcyclist just go out into oncoming traffic because they were in a hurry to experience the afterlife?
I know nothing about this collision
I won't blame either of them without knowing more.
But generally speaking, a huge problem around these parts are people who pull into the oncoming lane in order to pass other traffic on their way to make a lefthand turn. When I bike to work in the morning I have to look the "wrong" way when crossing streets as it isn't uncommon to see someone passing stopped cars in their haste to make a turn.
He was in wrong
I was at crash dude had his front wheel in the air lost control and merged into my lane of traffic hitting the van stupidity comes with stupid outcomes
They were allegedly popping
They were allegedly popping wheelies. Now they can do wheelies in a wheelchair.
Or
Some of their organs might be doing wheelies in new bodies.
Not all wheelies
Not all wheelies are intentional. A lightweight, powerful bike can surprise an inattentive rider. If said rider doesn't have the skill and experience to correct the situation, it can go very badly, like this.
If he was intentionally doing wheelies on a busy city street, that's a different story.
I feel sorry for the van driver
A relative had this happen to her - a motorcyclist drove into her Suburban head first and killed himself. It was extremely traumatic for her. I hope that driver didn't sustain any physical damage.
Traumatic for EMS/ambulance
Traumatic for EMS/ambulance crews, too.
This guy might be lucky enough to survive his bad decisions. If he does, I hope his friends/family/someone scares him straight with photos of the carnage/aftereffects and what horror he might have dumped on his loved ones. The EMTs don't get to look away.
A relative was an EMT and a motorcycle owner. He got fatally injured in a crash - not doing anything reckless, 'just' a bad crash. EMS responded and did all they could. Halfway through, as they had him loaded up on the ambulance and trying to get to hospital - one of the crew working on him realized Holy ****! This is ___!!! He didn't survive long after that. His coworkers had to live with their last memory of their friend being his battered body as they tried to save him.
not to mention the poor van driver
trying to make a living and having his transportation totaled.
Feel bad
I feel bad for the van driver, the wrecked van, EMTs, the people behind in traffic who were inconvenienced due to the incident, and... well, that's it.
I feel sorry for the motorcycle operator as well
even if they were 100% at fault.
And for his family and friends
If I had never myself been a stupid 20-something who failed to grasp the concept of my own physical fragility and mortality, or if I weren't the parent of 20-somethings, I might be sitting here smugly mocking the motorcyclist....
-- Songwriter/psychologist Richard Berman, in his song "Broken wings" about Icarus and Daedalus, Give it a listen. https://richardberman.com/store
IDK
The guy is lucky he hit a van and not a person. Someone on foot or a bike would have been killed. Even a collision with a smaller car could have hurt the driver if the bike smashed through the windshield.
I'm sorry for his injuries to an extent but I'm not going to dismiss that as bad decisions of youth. Once you start putting unsuspecting strangers at risk of serious injury or death, it's no longer just a youthful lapse in judgement.
Well, not all foolish things
Well, not all foolish things are equal. We've all done foolish things - I've done plenty - though there's foolish and then there's patently stupid. To me, this level of stupid is right up there with driving drunk in dense traffic. Does it happen every day? Yes, of course. Do I have sympathy if those people hurt themselves in the process? I do not. It was 100% intentional (the part of riding like an idiot and popping wheelies on a busy city road), 100% avoidable and self-inflicted.
I wouldn't expect much sympathy from anyone if I were to hurt myself while drifting through turns in the city vs. at the track.