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I had the unfortunate experience one night of witnessing exactly what happens when a crotch rocket, being chased by the police, t-bones a compact car such as that at around 90mph.
The bike shoved the whole side of the car in to about the console, but did not penetrate the door or column. The forks were bent and the front wheel was against the bottom of the engine. The tank was crumpled on both ends. The rear from the rider's crotch slamming into it, the front from impacting the triple tree...Everything below the tank, and behind the engine still looked like a motorcycle.
The driver, and PASSENGER went over the top of the car, and landed approximately 100ft beyond the intersection and then slid for what seemed like forever. They lived, but I'm sure they wished they hadn't.
The cop that was chasing the bike narrowly missed the wreckage while trying to haul it down and dodge the flying debris, left the street, up through a front yard, and came to a rest with his grill roughly 4' into someone's living room.
This happened right in front of me at a 4-way stop sign. I had my windows down because it was a nice night, I heard the bike winding up, I heard the sirens following, I looked left and saw them coming...then I saw the car start to pull into the intersection. I hit the horn while screaming at the windshield "STOP YOU IDIOT!"
The driver of the car had their windows up, stereo up, and didn't hear the siren, horn, or me screaming apparently. I don't think the guy on the bike even had time to THINK "oh s**t" before he hit.
I'm with Captain Midnight on this one...that bike penetrated the door, and took out the A column on the way through...I'd say 155 is about right.
I had the unfortunate experience one night of witnessing exactly what happens when a crotch rocket, being chased by the police, t-bones a compact car such as that at around 90mph.
The bike shoved the whole side of the car in to about the console, but did not penetrate the door or column. The forks were bent and the front wheel was against the bottom of the engine. The tank was crumpled on both ends. The rear from the rider's crotch slamming into it, the front from impacting the triple tree...Everything below the tank, and behind the engine still looked like a motorcycle.
The driver, and PASSENGER went over the top of the car, and landed approximately 100ft beyond the intersection and then slid for what seemed like forever. They lived, but I'm sure they wished they hadn't.
The cop that was chasing the bike narrowly missed the wreckage while trying to haul it down and dodge the flying debris, left the street, up through a front yard, and came to a rest with his grill roughly 4' into someone's living room.
This happened right in front of me at a 4-way stop sign. I had my windows down because it was a nice night, I heard the bike winding up, I heard the sirens following, I looked left and saw them coming...then I saw the car start to pull into the intersection. I hit the horn while screaming at the windshield "STOP YOU IDIOT!"
The driver of the car had their windows up, stereo up, and didn't hear the siren, horn, or me screaming apparently. I don't think the guy on the bike even had time to THINK "oh s**t" before he hit.
I'm with Captain Midnight on this one...that bike penetrated the door, and took out the A column on the way through...I'd say 155 is about right.
