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Hope it wasn't ardvark.

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Looks like hired car trailer >no exp from driver towing trailer and/or trailer brakes u/s > run through intersection > crunch!!

Hope the copper pulls through ok

Ardy, cop or not! Hope the guy is being looked after and on the mend!

"The driver is being "interviewed" by police"

I hope they "interviewed" the shit out of him....... Poor bloody cop.

.............very ouch

can't be ARDY bikes not upside down .......................as with all riders hope he fully mends and quickly.

Of all the things you wouldn't run into or turn in front of I think a copper would top the list.

Poor rider has a broken pelvis, ouch, that won't mend quickly.

Nick

Bugger!

Be a bit hard to take a crap...

Ardy has been online since this post! So it may not have been him!

Maybe the cop was speeding!
Can't really miss a great big white BMW with stripes all over it, when travelling at marked speeds.........

Ducks for cover

Naked Twin wrote:.....Of all the things you wouldn't run into or turn in front of I think a copper would top the list....

a young local P-plater did *exactly* this today, and ran smack-bang into a local po-po car - which was on a job, and had its lights flashing and sirens blasting !!!

I hope old mate on the bike in that photo was not too badly hurt.

Thanks for the concern guys, but it wasn't me.

For info, the car driver went straight through the stop sign. And typical of the media, they got it wrong. No broken pelvis, just scratches, scrapes and bruises. Oh, and stitches in the back of each heel as they hit first when he landed and they bust open.

Lucky for the rider far better off than first stated. still not good though. what protection you guys wear???

philbo wrote:what protection you guys wear???

All depends. Everyone wears Rossi motorcycle boots and some type of glove. Lower leg injuries represent the largest percentage of injury type in a motorcycle crash.
We have multiple sets of full leathers for the colder weather - but some guys will wear them all year.
For the warmer weather we have what kind of look like horse riding jodhpurs. I'm not sure what they are made out of now, but up until recently it was wool. They have kevlar inserts in the thigh, hip, backside and knee area. Much like Draggins.

Some guys, myself included, wear shirts in the summer. Some people can't understand why we wear shirts, but when you consider that between us (as a section) we cover more than 3,000,000 km a year, and the crash and injury rate is very, very low (and even lower for upper body injury), it becomes a risk management issue.