Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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Took these pics just over an hour ago, around 13.30, after a trip to Deal. No details of any casualties, all happened before I got there. Maybe PaulB will have some from his angle?
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Colin yes I got pictures of this..from my usual long range. Saw it completely by accident as it were, didnt hear sirens or anything yet there was at least 3 ambulances and 5 police cars with roads blocked off from three directions.. I thought initially it was a terrorist incident on account of the large presence of official vehicles.
I will see if I can find out from the police if there was any serious injury or worse. I hope not.
I might put it on the frontpage but depends on the seriousness. The frontpage has lots of frivolity on it at the moment so if it has been a serious accident it wont sit well there until I change it all. ...Im just thinking aloud here...
also got your email
Will add this...that can be a very tricky corner for motorcyclists from experience. People dont see you coming along the seafront, and cars coming to join the seafront can often carry on as if you are not there.
Reckon the driver caught sight of the Front Page WAG and was distracted.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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it looks very nasty to me, the state of the car and the bike suggests that the person on two wheels came a serious cropper.
fingers crossed i am wrong.
thanks for the pictures colin.
What does that advert ask us to do? THINK BIKE!
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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THINK CAMERA in this case Sid.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Once upon a time I used to be a Motor Cycle trainer. I taught all of my pupils to treat everyone else on the road as a homicidal idiot.
Whilst I wish the rider of the bike in the pictures all the best I trust that he was covering his ankles (wearing boots) and was wearing long trousers, whatever the weather.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Yes thats quite a dent on the car as captured there by Colin. I have contacted the police but havent heard anything back as of yet, and indeed hopefully it wont be as bad as it looks.
Yes Sid speaking as a motorcyclist the THINK BIKE campaign is very welcome. only yesterday coming down the A20 there from Folkestone way I saw the THINK BIKE sign lit up there on that electronic signboard. It may be helping.
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Echoing the above comments I hope both biker and driver are okay, THINK BIKE!
Guest 663- Registered: 20 Mar 2008
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Opps yes that does look bad as said lets hope all were ok,it can be very dodgy comeing along the sea front you have to have your eyes open,
Have also notice the addition of the sign at the top of Jubilee way lets hope drivers take notice of it.
Once upon a time I used to ride a large Honda ( V twin ). as a matter of principal I always hit the 30 mph at the bottom of the jubilee way at 70.
Guest 686- Registered: 5 May 2009
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Bob Frost Wrote: "Once upon a time I used to ride a large Honda ( V twin ). as a matter of principal I always hit the 30 mph at the bottom of the jubilee way at 70."
You really should know better than that Mr. Frost. It does not set a very good example.
Phil West
If at first you don't succeed, use a BIGGER hammer!!
It's okay Phil. Bob didn't use to hit it before he was 70.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Sorry but I do not think you should joke about this till we know both of them are well.
Hi. I was actually there and Ray saw it happen. Sadly, I saw the impact. A 17 year old girl was seriously injured. All I can say is, that from the time she arced through the air and landed, she did not move again. It was awful. As far as we could see she was wearing a crash helmet but not boots, and I don't think leathers. The motorist immediately said that she had not seen her. The bike was coming from the Western Docks end of Marine Parade and the driver exiting Wellesley Rd.
PS The driver was not injured physically.
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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Well, I heard yesterday evening after I came back from Canterbury that this had been a fatal accident. Certainly the amount of blood at the scene that had to be cleared up would indicate that the rider had been injured with life threatening injuries, and one can only hope that the reports are wrong and that she made it.
I now know of three accidents at Wellesley Road within the past few months; fortunately two of them were only rear end shunts but it does ask the question as to whether the story carried on the BBC yesterday - should the speed limit in built up areas now be a mandatory 20mph - is valid.
Let us hope that the young woman involved yesterday pulls through.
True friends stab you in the front.
Phil,
you are absolutely right and I regret my comment above. Not very grown up and not very clever.
Mea Culpa.
Take care on that bike.
Bob
Andy, what is needed is action to educate motorists and bikers alike. Legislation and reducing speed limits is last thing needed as the changes in Alkham Valley show. Speed limit signs everywhere you look and everyone ignoring them because they either aren't realistic for the road or, like the flashing signs in Alkham, ignored even by the locals.
I was involved in a head-on crash by Bushy Ruff about 3 weeks ago. The speed was within the prescribed limit, and the damage to vehicles huge. Luckily my daughter, who was driving, was able to take a very small evasivve action which I think saved our lives. The real cause was someone driving who was probably too old to be at the wheel.
However, the car in the seafront crash appears to have been pulling into the path of the bike and probably not even doing 15mph, so a reduction in speed limit wouldn't have made any difference to the outcome. Car v bike = only one winner, sadly for bikers.
Education is the answer.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
