MOTOR biker Garry Wilkinson had an incredible escape from a crash which left his machine on top of a car and him flat out on the road.
Looking up and down the street he thought the 1000 cc Suzuki had disintegrated in the crash. But his pride and joy had sailed through the air and landed on top of a Renault Scenic people carrier.
A witness eventually pointed it out, and told Garry: "Don't worry – your motorbike's parked on top of that car roof over there!"
www.thestar.co.uk/news/Parking-like-Evel-Knievel-.6414686.jp
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Much concern for his "pride and joy" but does he care about the innocent drivers car he wrecked with his creative parking?
Last edited by: Old Navy on Wed 14 Jul 10 at 15:55
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>> does he care about the innocent drivers car he wrecked with his creative parking?
Hardly innocent when the car pulled across his path.
"I was doing 25 mph when the car pulled across my path. I remember feeling really angry because there was no time to react or do anything, apart from slamming on my brakes as hard as I could."
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>> Much concern for his "pride and joy" but does he care about the innocent drivers
>> car he wrecked with his creative parking?
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Knee jerk reaction. It's an accident involving a motorbike; it must be the motorcyclist's fault. Don't bother actually troubling to read the article.
Shame on you ON.
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Was that the car that he initially hit ? I thought it was another car, the newspaper article suggests that. "On top of that car over there", not "On top of the car that you hit".
Last edited by: Old Navy on Wed 14 Jul 10 at 17:59
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>> Was that the car that he initially hit ?
I can't find the article that was also published in one of the tabloids at the weekend, but it did mention the Scenic was the car that pulled out in front of him.
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Bet he couldn't do that again! One very lucky man.
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Don't believe it was 25mph!
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I'd have said 25mph would be about right. The bike probably ran up the bonnet/windscreen whilst falling on its side.
Much faster and the energy would have carried it on over the roof of the car. Much slower and there wouldn't have been enough energy to run up the bonnet.
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I remember a couple of years ago while commuting through Tidworth, the accident must have happened moments before I approached the junction. There in the middle of the road was an upturned motorbike resting on its handlebars and seat, (just like you'd do with a bicycle to mend a puncture) and everyone, including the motorcyclist looking on in amazement at how it managed to come to rest like that after being hit by a car that pulled out in front of him.
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Anyone seen my motorbike? - Old Navy
