[UPDATE 3:19 p.m.] Medevac Requested to Come to Berry Summit to Pick up a Motorcycle Rider With Major Injuries
Snow is on either side of the roadway at Berry Summit. [Image from Caltrans Traffic cam]
The motorcyclist has major injuries in his lower extremities, according to the report coming over the scanner and the CHP Traffic Incident Information Page.
Please remember that information gathered from initial reports is subject to revision as more facts become available.
UPDATE 3:19 p.m.: The Medevac is on Berry Summit now.
Medevac is on Berry Summit. [Image from Caltrans Traffic cam]
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riding in the cold and the snow? he’s braver than I am. best of luck to the rider.
Was not in the snow.. right in Hoopa..pick up truck pulled out an hit him motorcycle had the right of way…
Happens all the time. Some folks act like they can’t see the bikes…
And some bikes are doing excess of 30 over the speed limit more often than not. Deal with it every day……..
That does not negate right of way, deal with it
thanks for the verification
Every driver should know about Saccadic masking and how to properly scan for traffic (using the 3-point focus pause). Motorcyclists should also use the SMIDSY maneuver when they see someone about to pull out.
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I always assume every vehicle coming from a side street and every vehicle approaching me at an intersection is going to try to kill me (on my motorcycle). It is an effective strategy for survival.
Riding a bike makes you a better driver also.
Agreed. Best of wishes to the rider. I got caught in a hail flurry about 10 years ago. It brought traffic on 101N to a creeping crawl around an accident and the alternate route up the hill to McKinleyville was, well, more than a bit squirrelly on two wheels.
Providing Toad eye is correct, and regardless if not, people, there is something you/we need to remember, motorcycles are on the roads every single day of the year. Just because some may not agree that we should be on the road at any given time doesn’t mean we don’t have the right to be there. The rider that gets injured, or worse, may be a loved one.
I read about 20 or 30 years ago that 50% of road fatalities involved a motorcycle. I got my first motorcycle at age 11 and road it thousands of miles by the time I got my drivers license. Mostly off-road, but I rode on roads 30 miles to Malibu beaches on the side canyons all the time too. When I was 14 I discovered I liked psychedelics a lot, I mean a real lot. And before I got my drivers license I quit riding on streets pretty much because I was making very poor decisions. A few years later I am grown up, own my own union construction company and a home and several trucks and vans but drove my BMW to work still. It needed to go into the shop all of a sudden and my next door neighbor offered me his not running because if a big hole in the crank case Honda 250 if I fixed it. So I fabricated a patch from a piece of a Budweiser can and attached it with JB Weld and drove from West Simi Valley across the San Fernando Valley to Glendale for several days right before Christmas. I have been shot at and held at gunpoint maybe 50 times in war zones, dangled from ropes in caverns, sailed my boat in 25 foot breaking seas and some other stuff that was exciting to me, but that partial week on the Honda is to this day the scariest thing I have ever done. On the last day I was almost run down 5 or 6 times where only my youthful quick reactions saved me from people hitting me. I stayed in my lane and did not cut traffic but people don’t see bikers for some reason. I rode one more time a couple years later on an all day ride on a BMW with cafe racers on Japanese bikes who liked to go 120 mph and up and never rode again. That was about 45 years ago. If I had not fractured and crushed 16 vertebrae in my life I would still like to putter around on trails. But I am none to smart.
Thanks for the share,
In 2015 a group of us rode our bikes to sturgis South Dakota. The ride there was perfect conditions. On our way home we hit hail the size of golf balls, had to pull over and sit a while, next was pouring rain so much rain that about 4-6 inches was in the roadway we pulled into a hotel for the nite.
The next day it rain hard but we had to keep moving. My buddy was getting married that weekend ( he was with us). We made it to elko Nevada and got a room. We stayed there for three night it was raining so hard. After the 3rd nite my buddy rode the 700 mile back to fortuna in one shot raining the entire time. One of the scariest times of my life!
The next year we all trailered our bike like queens. #truestory
Sturgis has some strange weather for sure. Been there a half dozen times and you never know what to expect. You spend half your time out running the storms with rain drops the size of quarters!
So true
Motorcycle fatalities represented 14% of all traffic fatalities in 2019. In 2019, motorcyclists were 27 times more likely than passenger car occupants to die in a crash per vehicle mile traveled. Nearly 5 times more motorcyclists were injured in traffic crashes in 2019 compared to passenger car occupants.Jan 2, 2023
My theory is with heavy traffic in todays modern world drivers are on information overload. There is so much input with oter vehicles traffic signs etc etc that peoples brain can not process it all and they just do not see motorcycles.
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