Biker decapitated

[Mister James]

Fook me!

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/11/wdecap11.xml

Poor sod.
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[GeorgeCBR]

Ouch, thats an odd one eh?
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[matt_uk]

Seen this on another forum, Its bad!
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[polarman]

Perhaps we should start displaying stats on all injuries and fatalities for all modes of transportation, in the home and workplace.

Why post horror stories? There's enough on the news without seeing them on this website.

We all know the risks. Just my opinion guys.


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[map]

Wasn't it Jeremy Clarkson who said he'd like to silence motorcyclist by stringing cheese wire across the road

Ok, I know this is in Italy and a sad case. Makes you think though
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[Jamie S]

lesson learnt , get a full fairing ! it would just hit the screen and go over and you would be fine.

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[Luke_Retrofly]

Every time jamie says anything its always a car crash moment

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[polarman]

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[fenton]

Its been done before. Cant find a link for it, but it happend a while back in this country. It turned out that the farmer was fed up up of crossers using the paths at the back and but a length of wire across to stop them. Also two kids were caught stringing a length between two lamp posts, but were seen on TV so it avoided any serious injury

[Shay HTFC]

Lets hope it doesn't have any copycat effect. That is sick.
Can just imagine now... little chav#1 thinks it'll be funny to put up wire across his street cos he read it in the news.

Although saying that... was this printed in the News of the World?

[Essex_Mike]

Fucking hell, thats ridiculous.

By the way, just coz some people don't like reading about this, doesn;t mean others aint interested.
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[polarman]

[nick606]

i guy in norfolk or somewhere had this done to him. It was in the daily express today page 37 hes ok now though....10 stitches hes had

says nothing about the wire being put there to harm the riders

edit: he was just cut... if my post confuses anyone not decapitated

[Weedy]

https://www.lynnnews.co.uk/news?ArticleID=2700908

I think you'll find he was a little more than "cut"

Happened about 10 miles away from where I live
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[Mjolnir]

I can't believe people actually do things like this. There isn't really a lot you can do if your bearing down on a booby-trap left by someone intent on taking a biker apart that day.

It strikes me as strange that the guy in Weedy's article states:
"I just want to stress to people how dangerous motorcycles can be"

Surely the barbed wire across the road is more dangerous than the bike. I can't help but think he is focussing on the wrong element of the accident. He was doing nothing wrong. It was the guy stretching barbed wire across the road that inflicted the injury on him.

[Weedy]

That was my first reaction! How can it be the motorcycle/riders fault if some nonce decided to tie some barbed wire up at throat height?!

The attitude of the rider (although understandable) gives out the wrong impression to the general public though
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[ncrn]

Maybe armour such as this

https://thekneeslider.com/images/neckbrace.jpg

will need to be more commonly used by motocross riders to save them from farmers trying to kill them?
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[brianmcewan.co.uk]

How can anyone do anything like that?

The Italian probably wouldn't have know anything about it... would he?
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[Weedy]

Wouldn't have thought so, would have all happened too quickly for him to realise what was occuring which is something I guess
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[Squibbs]

"I just want to stress to people how dangerous motorcycles can be. I was wearing all the proper clothing but there are extreme risks involved and you really have to be careful when riding."

I agree with Weedy on this one. If I was out walking the dog and got knifed by some mugger I wouldn't go around saying 'I want to stress to everyone how dangerous dog walking is...'

Noone could reasonably expect to come across barbed wire at neck height except as part of an obvious fence, its not part of motorcycling, its part of people being reckless with other people's lives