Motorcyclist hospitalised after Ingleton crash (From The Westmorland Gazette)
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Motorcyclist hospitalised after Ingleton crash
7:11pm Sunday 4th September 2011 in Ingleton news
A MOTOCYCLIST and his pillion passenger suffered life-threatening injuries in a crash at Ingleton.
The collision between a Kawasaki bike and a blue Citreon Picasso occured on the A65 New Road junction with Rarber Top Lane at around 6.30pm on Sunday.
A 40-year-old woman riding pillion suffered serious pelvic and leg injuries was flown by Great North Air Ambulance to Lancaster Royal Infirmary.
The male motorcycle driver was transported to the same hospital by road ambulance.
The driver of the car is not believed to have suffered any injuries.
Police closed the A65 in both directions until 8.30pm that evening.
Comments(23)
fedupofbigots
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4:41pm Wed 7 Sep 11
fedupwithBikers wrote:Hopefully people like you will think before spouting your silly drivel in the future. The pillion has no control over the bike movements and the rider was overtaking - the idea of overtaking is to get passed the obstruction as quickly as you can and that almost by necessity involves a turn of speed. If the driver of the turning vehicle didn't want to hurt or kill the 4wk old baby, then perhaps good observations (including rearward) would have prudent prior to making a directional change. The speed is almost irrelevant here, the onus of a safe driver is to NOT move into the path of another moving vehicle. With the help of the highway code and a mirror, this collision would have been avoided. Suppose you've never done anything naughty on the roads, have you? It reads as though you wanted the injuries etc. You're very hateful, please send me your name and address, I'd love to discuss this matter personally.
Hopefully these 2 bikers will think again next time they are out thrill seeking on OUR roads. The speed limit where this took place is 40MPH not 60-70MPH!! To quote one witness "they took off from the lights like a bat out of hell"
Maybe they would also like to think about how close they came to hurting/killing the 4 week old baby in the back of the car.
snappo
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6:08pm Wed 7 Sep 11
fedupwithBikers wrote:Your roads? How does that work exactly - do you know for a fact that the bike wasn't taxed and therefore illegally on the road? You weren't there, so have no idea about the circumstances of the accident, however you seem comfortable apportioning 100% of the blame onto the rider. Your username is more than enough to tell me everything I need to know about you. Narrow minded and unpleasant..
Hopefully these 2 bikers will think again next time they are out thrill seeking on OUR roads. The speed limit where this took place is 40MPH not 60-70MPH!! To quote one witness "they took off from the lights like a bat out of hell"
Maybe they would also like to think about how close they came to hurting/killing the 4 week old baby in the back of the car.
fedupwithBikers
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8:29am Thu 8 Sep 11
I also did not say the bike was illegally on the road. but was being ridden in the usual RECKLESS manner.
I refer to OUR roads as im local and we have to put up with this every weekend when the sun is out, hoards of biking idiots terrorising our roads.
Grow up, if you want to race your "NINJA 10,000" race bike, find a bloody race track and dont do it on OUR roads.
snappo
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8:34am Thu 8 Sep 11
Narrow minded and unpleasant..
fedupofbigots
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9:51am Thu 8 Sep 11
But I don't put all drivers in the same camp - you seem to imply that ALL bikers are terrorising YOUR roads on their Ninja 10,000's. You are therefore coming across as a bigot and an idiot. I do over 10,000 miles a year on bikes and the same again in a car so I see it both ways. Am I a dirty biker who speeds everywhere or a considerate car driver victim of these mindless two-wheel warriors? I'm neither. It's you who should grow up and accept there are mistakes, misjudgments and mis-deeds in all walks of life. Are all Scousers thieves in your little world? Are all Muslims terrorists?
Wellpastit
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2:46pm Thu 8 Sep 11
All traffic was going slowly, that day I was in my car, not on my bike.
By the way fedup withBikers, which road do you own?
Stargazeratdawn
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5:41pm Thu 8 Sep 11
none
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10:59pm Thu 8 Sep 11
Ladyxxmacbeth
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11:26pm Thu 8 Sep 11
none
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11:37pm Thu 8 Sep 11
snappo
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12:19am Fri 9 Sep 11
none wrote:Sorry, my mistake. Every single car driver is a perfect motorist, who never breaks any laws, and every single biker is a moron who rides like a lunatic all the time. Stupid of me to attempt to offer a balanced and reasonable response, when you already know everything you need to know about road safety.
So they should not have rode so recklessly then. Be honest, how many times have you seen a motorbike going too fast, too dangerously or too close to other vehicles. they do not have a god given right to overtake, weave through slow moving traffic or generally do whatever they please. Just a few days ago I drove around a blind corner with stationary traffic on the other side only to be confronted by a motorbike coming down my side of the road, had I not slammed my brakes on we would have collided. Would that have been my fault? was he one of the supposed minority? No, he was just your usual biker who thinks he can do what he **** well wants.
Ladyxxmacbeth
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12:28am Fri 9 Sep 11
I just think it's terrible that people think that because they were on a bike then they deserve to be nearly killed,
because they were on a bike...sod it let em die...Some of you are a bloody disgrace!
Ladyxxmacbeth
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12:30am Fri 9 Sep 11
tictoc1
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9:41am Fri 9 Sep 11
father/other relative or friend on the bike, would you still be so negative? Would you probably shift the blame? It was a terrible "accident" where people were injured. Try "thinking" about what you're going to write before you actually write it. I'm pretty sure you wouldn't be too happy if someone started slating someone you know!
fedupofbigots
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12:02am Sat 10 Sep 11
none wrote:This is a circular argument. I thought for a minute you were describing car drivers. Car drivers do all that. And a great number of them of all ages and walks of life. How many drivers do you see on the phone while moving? How many car drivers tail-gate you? Sit up, take notice - more bikers behave on the road than car drivers because it takes far more concentration to safely navigate the roads. Okay, some don't safely navigate the roads but the same can be said for car drivers, bus drivers and the like. Just watch Road Wars or something.
Stop overtaking on solid white lines. Stop tailgating cars. Stop breaking the speed limit. Stop parking on pavements. Stop bleating on about how its the cars that are at fault. Stop assuming you can do what you **** well like. Stop all that and I might have some sympathy.
fedupofbigots
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12:02am Sat 10 Sep 11
fedupofbigots
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12:02am Sat 10 Sep 11
fedupofbigots
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12:09am Sat 10 Sep 11
Ben Berry
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11:30am Sat 10 Sep 11
fedupofbigots wrote:So good you had to say it three times!
Oops. Don't know what happened there...
life cycle too
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3:52pm Sat 10 Sep 11
Ben Berry wrote:An oft recurring error in the forum software, judging by the number of repeated posts on the Gazette pages!
fedupofbigots wrote:So good you had to say it three times!
Oops. Don't know what happened there...
I have even had them myself, and reported posts to the moderators, in the hope that they might be able to get to the bottom of it!
life cycle too
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4:01pm Sat 10 Sep 11
fedupwithBikers wrote:Hmm the fact that you were there, EVEN though you did not see it, somehow imparts to you magical deductive powers that enable you to describe exactly what happened without the need to witness the scene.
I was there, although I did not see it happen. I heard it and was at the scene within 2 minutes. i also talked to an eye witness. It not very nice seeing a young mother covered in blood, clutching a very young baby.
I also did not say the bike was illegally on the road. but was being ridden in the usual RECKLESS manner.
I refer to OUR roads as im local and we have to put up with this every weekend when the sun is out, hoards of biking idiots terrorising our roads.
Grow up, if you want to race your "NINJA 10,000" race bike, find a bloody race track and dont do it on OUR roads.
You should offer your services to the Cumbria Constabulary accident investigation department - they could do with your help.
Hopefully the eye witness who filled in the gaps in your mystical powers, will be blessed with photographic recall, and an ability to recount an impartial account to the police when the time comes.
snappo
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10:01pm Sat 10 Sep 11
Ladyxxmacbeth wrote:I say Madam, I'm not that sort of girl!
I like you snappo ! call me !
You wouldn't like me, I ride motorbikes and drive a pick up truck - a bigoted stereotypers dream!
;-)
fedupwithBikers says...
11:47am Wed 7 Sep 11
Maybe they would also like to think about how close they came to hurting/killing the 4 week old baby in the back of the car.