Unbelievable..

ttc · Post by **ttc** » Sun May 21, 2006 5:59 pm

http://www.independentmail.com/and/news ... 32,00.html

This happened in America

Accident leads to death of motorcyclist
By ALISON GLASS Anderson Independent-Mail
April 24, 2006

A Piedmont woman died Sunday after a pickup truck accidentally struck the motorcycle she was attempting to drive out of the Anderson Jockey Lot.

Christina Howard, 39, of Rosalee Drive suffered multiple internal injuries and died in the emergency room at AnMed Health Medical Center shortly after 2:15 p.m. Sunday, Anderson County Deputy Coroner Charlie Boseman said.

As Ms. Howard waited to make a left turn onto U.S. 29 out of the Jockey Lot at approximately 1:45 p.m. Sunday, a 2004 Ford pickup truck was started from a stopped position and struck the motorcycle from behind, said Lance Cpl. Dan Marsceau, a South Carolina Highway Patrol spokesman.

Investigation indicates that the pickup truck driver, Jewel Pruitt, 56, of Honea Path, started forward incorrectly believing that the motorcycle already had turned onto S.C. 29, authorities said.

Butch Stone, one of the vendors working in the Jockey Lot Sunday, said at one point he saw the motorcyclist emerging from beneath the back of the pickup truck.

"I started down there immediately, because I’ve been riding motorcycles all my life," Mr. Stone said.

In the confusion after the motorcyclist moved from beneath the truck, the driver of the truck at one point backed up and pinned the motorcyclist’s head under the right rear truck wheel, Mr. Stone said.

Those around the scene yelled to tell to the pickup truck driver to stop backing up, Mr. Stone said.

"The (truck) exhaust pipe was laying on her, and she was being burned," Mr. Stone said about the motorcyclist. "It was a terrible situation."

Mr. Stone said he eventually approached the truck, reached into it and put the vehicle into park.

"He had frozen," Mr. Stone said about Mr. Pruitt.

Mr. Stone then got into the truck, he said, and pulled it forward to move it off the motorcyclist.

Mr. Stone has shown products for his business at the Jockey Lot for about four years, he said, and the intersection where the accident took place is "always congested."

Mr. Pruitt, who was charged with improper starting, and the four young passengers in the truck sustained no injuries, Mr. Marsceau said.

Ms. Howard is the mother of three children, Mr. Boseman said.

Apparently the lady was trying to pick the bike up when he backed over her..
and the link to the forum with more detail..

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=134997

Lainie · Post by **Lainie** » Sun May 21, 2006 6:56 pm

Bloody hell not good

ninja9 · Post by **ninja9** » Sun May 21, 2006 7:38 pm

Check out the names.. pickup truck driver, Jewel Pruitt, 56, of Honea Path, started forward incorrectly believing that the motorcycle already had turned onto S.C. 29, authorities said.

Butch Stone, one of the vendors working in the Jockey Lot Sunday,

Might as well be Beavis & Butthead or Cleatis from Shitkickers, Alabama.

Feel sorry for the poor woman - Christina Howard, she misses out with such a normal name...

Smitty · Post by **Smitty** » Sun May 21, 2006 9:45 pm

...geezers, only in the yesyessofhay

chameleon · Post by **chameleon** » Sun May 21, 2006 10:47 pm

another "dead biker thread" I think I'll pass.

Barrabob · Post by **Barrabob** » Sun May 21, 2006 10:56 pm

Looks like he ran over her from the front then reversed back over her afterwards

that has to save any litigation from the rider.

ttc · Post by **ttc** » Mon May 22, 2006 6:02 am

You're missing the point Chameleon

Colette · Post by **Colette** » Mon May 22, 2006 9:45 am

chameleon wrote:another "dead biker thread" I think I'll pass.

Hmmm, well you obviously didn't pass

What a horrible accident

midorioni · Post by **midorioni** » Mon May 22, 2006 10:06 am

May god bless her soul

chameleon · Post by **chameleon** » Mon May 22, 2006 10:15 am

Colette wrote:
Hmmm, well you obviously didn't pass

What a horrible accident

O I did! I passed on reading the story after the first line, when I realized what it was

It's just a personal choice, like not slowing down to have a good look at an accident on the side of the road. A lot of people "rubber neck" but I have never had the urge. I just want to get as far apart from the others as I can and avoid any secondary accidents.

If the thread title had been "unbelievable accident" I wouldn't have commented at all cause I wouldn't have opened it. Not yesterday anyway

Colette · Post by **Colette** » Mon May 22, 2006 10:25 am

chameleon wrote:
Colette wrote:
Hmmm, well you obviously didn't pass

What a horrible accident
O I did! I passed on reading the story after the first line, when I realized what it was It's just a personal choice, like not slowing down to have a good look at an accident on the side of the road. A lot of people "rubber neck" but I have never had the urge. I just want to get as far apart from the others as I can and avoid any secondary accidents.

If the thread title had been "unbelievable accident" I wouldn't have commented at all cause I wouldn't have opened it. Not yesterday anyway

I wouldn't have thought that reading this post qualifies a person as a rubbernecker

Anyway, it's a good thing that we are all different and can share our differences in a forum like this

mrmina · Post by **mrmina** » Mon May 22, 2006 4:03 pm

GPX.Lainie wrote:Bloody hell not good

i agree

MadFab · Post by **MadFab** » Mon May 22, 2006 11:40 pm

sorta like an accident i heard about where some bikes were toasted !

oops

i forgot we aint allowed to talk about it !

well just call me an insensitive bastard !

thats what i think

stevew_zzr · Post by **stevew_zzr** » Mon May 22, 2006 11:56 pm

dear oh dear - that's terrible

Seems like another example of stupidity and power combining to result in tragedy.

Kishy · Post by **Kishy** » Tue May 23, 2006 2:26 am

ninja9 wrote:Check out the names.. pickup truck driver, Jewel Pruitt, 56, of Honea Path, started forward incorrectly believing that the motorcycle already had turned onto S.C. 29, authorities said.

Butch Stone, one of the vendors working in the Jockey Lot Sunday,

Might as well be Beavis & Butthead or Cleatis from Shitkickers, Alabama.

Feel sorry for the poor woman - Christina Howard, she misses out with such a normal name...

Most prolly bc the article is fulla shit

Its from America so wouldnt suprise me. Couldnt care less what happens
in that part of the world