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Hello everyone. Just thought I would share my experience with y"all. We have a group with about 9 bikes, sometimes more, sometimes less that meet every Thursday evening and go for a local ride to a surrounding town. We just go and eat somewhere and return to where we started, visit a little, then everyone goes their way. So, yesterday evening, we done just that. We traveled about 32 miles, ate and was coming home when it happened. We had been following a pickup truck for a few miles. The truck gave a right turn signal at a four way and had begun to move to the right. Now, understand, this was just a pig trail that went into the woods, not a major road at all. As the truck began it's right hand turn our lead rider proceeded to go around the truck. Me and my wife where right behind him and we had also begun to go around. At this moment, for what ever reason, the young girl in the truck suddenly made an abrupt turn to the left. Our lead rider braked very hard and turned to the left to try to avoid the pickup but was unsuccessful and hit the truck very hard. I just missed the truck myself. We think he will be ok but he is tore up really bad and in the icu right now. I spent the whole day at the hospital today as did several others. It's an awful feeling to see your friend laying in the gravel bleeding from everywhere and not knowing if he is gonna live or not. That seen just keeps going through my head. The tires sliding, the impact with the truck, the helmet flying off his head upon impact, and knowing that I was just feet away from being right in the middle of it with my precious wife on the back with me. Someone could have bought my
'06 Gold wing real cheap last night because I was through riding. But after sleeping on it, I'm not sure now. This was the third mc wreck in our area in a month. The other two didn't make it. I have a lot of mixed emotions right now so if I've stated something that sounds crazy, please understand that I'm still pretty shook up from all of this. I learned two lessons from this. Never assume that someone is gonna do what it seems they are gonna do and make sure you have your helmet strap snug enough to keep it on in a wreck.
'06 Gold wing real cheap last night because I was through riding. But after sleeping on it, I'm not sure now. This was the third mc wreck in our area in a month. The other two didn't make it. I have a lot of mixed emotions right now so if I've stated something that sounds crazy, please understand that I'm still pretty shook up from all of this. I learned two lessons from this. Never assume that someone is gonna do what it seems they are gonna do and make sure you have your helmet strap snug enough to keep it on in a wreck.