An amazing rescue caught on camera

[Grateful11]

Be warned this is pretty hard to watch. Personally I'm glad there are still people in this world that would do this.

http://www.woodtv.com/dpps/news/strange/...gr_3940729

[onthedownlow]

dupe

[onthedownlow]

dupe

[onthedownlow]

Great effort by those folks to get him out. He was very lucky.

[odd, I made an edit and it just kept duplicating my original post]

[wowzer]

Donor cycles are great for transplant patients. But if it were up to me, I'd ban these death traps on wheels from the road.

[Grateful11]

wowzer wrote:
Donor cycles are great for transplant patients. But if it were up to me, I'd ban these death traps on wheels from the road.

My nephew is getting ready for a solo ride from NC to Nova Scotia and back on what I think is a
KTM. It's fairly big for on and off road motorcycle but it scares the hack out my knowing he's going
to do this, especially solo.

[DRR]

Did no one think to drag him more than 4 feet from the burning wreckage?

[mrthuse]

If self-preservation is a primal instinct, how is it that folks can put themselves in such peril to help a fellow human? (We are talking potentially lethal exploding automobiles here.) Everything else dissolves. Those folks weren't thinking about their families, their jobs, themselves - nothing but coming to aid of that victim. We are remarkable creatures.

[mrlynn]

I'm surprised they didn't pull the rider farther from the car, in case it exploded.

My two sons bought used motorcycles and undertook a 12,000-mile circumnavigation of the United States (and southern Canada). We paid for them to take the motorcycle-safety course run by the state police in New Hampshire. Needless to say, I remained nervous for that summer. A third rider who joined them did not take the course, and wiped out heading down a mountain road in the Northwest—broke his arm and wrecked his bike. My sons say the course made the difference; they knew better how to handle a road like that.

Grateful11, urge your nephew to take a course.

/Mr Lynn

[DRR]

Explosions in wrecks like that are rare. What is much more dangerous is a fuel leak that spills onto the roadway, which could easily re-endanger the victim, who is still lying only 4 feet away from the flames.