Motorbike accident on the way home tonight

No, it wasn’t me riding the bike, I was in my car, but it happened in front of me. Two riding on a powerful bike decided to cross four lanes doing about twice the speed limit in not heavy, but quite dense traffic. The result: they hit one of those green plastic bollards, fell, skid almost 300 feet while hitting the curbside fence. The driver suffered a broken leg (both tib & fib, pretty bent around but not compound), and the other guy basically ripped off his lower leg, above the ankle. I doubt he will get to keep it by how bad it looked. In the end, two engines, three EMS and one medic unit, plus countless local & traffic police turned up.

If you ride a bike, remember – you are the chassis, there is nothing between you and the other end of a crash!