Emergency personnel work on an injured motorcyclist. [Photo by Jeff Musgrave]
A little after 7 p.m. yesterday, a vehicle crashed into a motorcycle near at the intersection of 5th and R in Eureka. The 37-year-old motorcyclist was seriously injured. According to information coming over the scanner, he likely has a broken leg and in addition had back pain.
An officer at the open door of the vehicle that struck the motorcyclist. [Photo by Jeff Musgrave]
According to one witness, Jeff Musgrave, who took these photos, the motorcyclist was “t-boned” by the white passenger car. Musgrave, who says he saw the whole incident, believes, though this hasn’t been confirmed, that the white car ran the red light.
Musgrave blamed the incident on “excessive speed.”
At the end of a trail of debris, the motorcycle lay on the sidewalk after the crash. [Photo by Jeff Musgrave]
The number 1 and number 2 lanes of 5th Street were closed for a time.
Please remember that information gathered from initial reports is subject to revision as more facts become available.
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Ran the red light nice one lady! That guy needed to work n feed his family! Shame on u!
What the hell are you doing pick that bike up and make sure it’s ok 😂😂😂
That was not a cheap Harley. It is now. Dammit
The high collision rate in Eureka is due to the lack of traffic enforcement and education programs. Our rush to redesign a failing justice system fails to address the problems and only looks to justify bad behavior. In todays economy even traffic tickets are inflated. We need education and other sources of “punishment” for violating minor criminal and traffic matters. Maybe an option of paying a fine, or community service using their skills and training in lieu of a fine. Accompanied with education of traffic safety and education. Eureka has failed at the Traffic Foundation’s three Es of traffic safety…Engineering, education, and enforcement.
Its called SPEEDING. Its not the roads, peds, or people looking at you funny.
EMT: Same causes as always; Speed, TEXTING, and drinking. See it every damn day.
Running a red light (even if you are going the speed limit) should be a felony. And if an injury accident results it should require actual PRISON time.
I say forced military service instead of prison. Kill for our country or be killed
#1: 90% of service members are never even in a unit that is involved in any combat actions.
#2: US Army: 601-210, paragraph 4-8b: states that any “applicant who, as a condition for any civil conviction or adverse disposition or any other reason through a civil or criminal court, is ordered or subjected to a sentence that implies or imposes enlistment into the Armed Forces of the United States is not eligible for enlistment.”
All other branches have similar regulations.
#3: Penal military units are something corrupt European nations and even the Soviet Union engaged in. Our country’s revolution against aristocratic control was due in part to unjust and easily abused laws. A law requiring compulsory military service due to criminal convictions? Gee I can’t think of any way that could be abused!
#4: The services already have enough trash to deal with, they don’t need yours. You’re clearly not a veteran to advocate for such. If you want something like this, renounce your citizenship and move to a country that allows such corrupt nonsense.
‘Kill a Biker, go to jail’!
That would be silly asf. 🤦🏽♀️ This is the most ridiculous comment I think I have ever seen. Things happen unfortunately like distractions such as small children, being blinded by sunlight or other things.
Actually the problem is all the people higher than a kyte driving around impaired. If they are not high they burned their brains out of chemical recreation so bad they are a menace on the road. Half the time they don’t even have a drivers license. If you think education is going to help you do not understand the underlying problem or the Humboldt culture.
“Humboldt culture”: Two words that capture an abundance of the local scene starting with the criminal, addicted, and poor.
good thing this doesn’t happen any place else
A license is not a guarantee of ability!
Y’all need to stop blaming people that are high,etc. It is actually damn near everyone who is on the road anymore. I see it everyday through the corridor all day long. Not one car is ever driving under 65 and most of them doing more like 70-75, 80. With that being said you don’t see any cops writing tickets either. It really pisses me off to see all these idiots driving like they can make their own rules of the road and drive as fast as they want to. I have never in my life seen so many rollover accidents in city limits. That says a lot.
Prayers for the rider, thank God he’s still alive! He was on his way home from work. People really need to take the act of driving a car seriously! Pay attention! Stay alert, stay alive!!!
I ride a bike and can’t say enough that motorcyclists need to be on the look out for people looking to kill them. In the last three days I’ve spent 4 hours on my bike and nearly been hit three times. You NEED TO BE ALERT AND SUSPICIOUS!
There has been so many motorcycle accidents in the last month. It is almost as if most of them are invisible to the other drivers. One person lost her leg in Redding, not their fault, on person in Burnt Ranch lost his leg, went over the yellow line, one person killed on 299, went over the yellow line, person on Myrtle with major injuries, not his fault, car turned in front of him. There was one that hit a deer and this one. I don’t remember the rest of them but I know there were more.