Motorcycle Passenger Killed

[Kilgore Trout]

What a mess and what a gruesome way to check out on 401 last night.

A motorcyclist was signalled by a police cruiser to pull over last night on east end ; but, decided to accelerate hard and take off instead which caused his passenger in back to fall off the motorcycle onto live lanes behind where the passenger was hit by several vehicles.

None of the cars that hit the cyclist passenger pulled over.
So cops have a dead motorcycle passenger, a motorcyclist who got away with taking off, and several cars who get away with hitting someone on the 401 and not stopping. All of this coming out of a routine attempted traffic stop.

http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2010/08/28/15172156.html

 

[Mod100]

What a mess and what a gruesome way to check out on 401 last night.

A motorcyclist was signalled by a police cruiser to pull over last night on east end ; but, decided to accelerate hard and take off instead which casused his passenger in back to fall off the motorcycle onto live lanes behind where the passenger was hit by several vehicles.

None of the cars that hit the cyclist passenger pulled over.
So cops have a dead motorcycle passenger, a motorcyclist who got away with taking off, and several cars who get away with hitting someone on the 401 and not stopping. All of this coming out of a routine attempted traffic stop.

http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2010/08/28/15172156.html

Welcome to Toronto.

 

[red]

Welcome to Toronto.

huh? it happened in whitby

 

[Mod100]

huh? it happened in Whitby

Picky, picky. GTA then. Happy now?

Oh, corrected your spelling for you. No charge.

 

[Captain Fantastic]

Nice try

Picky, picky. GTA then. Happy now?

Funny, that. Whitby is in Durham Region.

Most 905-ers would never associate themselves with Toronto the Bad. And no one from Toronto would ever call Durham part of the city.

Where are you from?

 

[Mod100]

Nice try



Funny, that. Whitby is in Durham Region.

Most 905-ers would never associate themselves with Toronto the Bad. And no one from Toronto would ever call Durham part of the city.

Where are you from?

Your biased opinion. Something against blue collar?

GTA is all encompassing.

Where am I from? Canada! You have a problem with that.

 

[Captain Fantastic]

Your biased opinion. Something against blue collar?

GTA is all encompassing.

Where am I from? Canada! You have a problem with that.

Someone is projecting.

My point was simple - neither region considers itself a part of the other. Few, if any people self-identify as being from "The GTA." Heck, most Torontonians still don't accept Scarborough as part of the City.

 

[Mod100]

Someone is projecting.

1)My point was simple - neither region considers itself a part of the other. 2)Few, if any people self-identify as being from "The GTA." Heck, most Torontonians still don't accept Scarborough as part of the City.

1)A much better explanation.

2)Identical to New York City,USA; London, England; and so on but the GTA identification still applies when it's convenient.

 

[Euphoria Courtesans]

People are just evil. If I can swerve out of the way of a piece of rubber then they can surely swerve out of the way of a human being. This is just tragic and says quite alot about society.

 

[whitewaterguy]

Nice try



Funny, that. Whitby is in Durham Region.

Most 905-ers would never associate themselves with Toronto the Bad. And no one from Toronto would ever call Durham part of the city.

Where are you from?

Funny, when i was in school it used to be called the Golden Horseshoe, essentially a strip of tar, industry, suburbs and a concrete slabbed downtown in it's centre, stretching from Oshawa to Niagara Falls. I think the point that Mod100 was making is that this incident is a reflection of behaviour of people living in a massive urbanized sink hole, and to attempt to define or blame their behaviours on the basis of superficial municipal/political or "neighbourhood" boundaries is rather simplistic and stupid, when whats really at the bottom of this sort of thing is essentially classic overpopulation rat-like behaviour with no conscience.

After all, when you have, what ,2-3 million humans or more stressing themselves and each other out with daily vehicular gridlock, drug and alcohol abuse, failed relationships, failed jobs,not to mention overmedication , is it any wonder many,if not most are not model citizens????

 

[Anynym]

Someone is projecting.

My point was simple - neither region considers itself a part of the other. Few, if any people self-identify as being from "The GTA." Heck, most Torontonians still don't accept Scarborough as part of the City.

There are some who get very confused. There's a company in Ottawa that advertises as serving the "Ottawa GTA" - I don't think they really have a clue what the "T" stands for.

But this doesn't change the fact that the motorcyclist deserves the full weight of the law to be applied to him (or her) once caught.

 

[OddSox]

You're kidding aren't you? Everything from Oshawa to Toronto is a single city, and for all I know it extends west at least the same distance. There was a time when it wasn't (I grew up in the Oshawa area) but not any more.

 

[GotGusto]

Being a passenger on a motorcycle on a highway is dumb to begin with.

 

[OddSox]

Being a passenger on a motorcycle on a highway is dumb to begin with.

Sorry, but why? I would suggest that it has a lot to do with whoever is driving.

 

[Brill]

Anyone riding a motorcycle is at a high risk, there's very little protection if you fall or if you're hit.

Being a passenger means you have even less control of a situation, you can't even hang on for your life properly.

Therefore it's dumb.

Because of the time of night and that he fled, I'm guessing alcohol was involved.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

If I absolutely had to be a passenger on a motorbike, I'd prefer it to be on a bike with a backrest.

Goldwing airbag video:
http://www.autoblog.com/2006/09/08/video-honda-gold-wing-airbag-in-action/

 

[pizzaboo]

A police friend of mine in Windsor was told never to chase a bike with a passenger because of the risk to what may be an innocent passenger . The police need to be looked at for pursuing this chase . The motorcycle rider also needs an extra charege or more time for this event . Whether or not it ends in an accident a bike that runs with a passenger should face extra charges for endangerment . And yes I do ride a bike .

Boo

 

[gcostanza]

There was no chase.

The officer attempted to get the motorcyclist to pull over for a traffic stop.

At that point, the driver raced off, and the passenger was thrown from the motorcycle.

Try reading the article before posting next time.

 

[GotGusto]

Sorry, but why? I would suggest that it has a lot to do with whoever is driving.

Because:

Anyone riding a motorcycle is at a high risk, there's very little protection if you fall or if you're hit.

Being a passenger means you have even less control of a situation, you can't even hang on for your life properly.

Therefore it's dumb.

Because of the time of night and that he fled, I'm guessing alcohol was involved.

 

[nottyboi]

There was no chase.

The officer attempted to get the motorcyclist to pull over for a traffic stop.

At that point, the driver raced off, and the passenger was thrown from the motorcycle.

Try reading the article before posting next time.

Trying to stop a bike on the highway is IMHO too risky, cops should follow them until they exit and then stop them. I doubt people actually neglected to swerve, that is silly. People probably had no idea what they hit. As for the bike rider, he will probably be caught, but he probably panicked.