Unbelievable..
Posted: 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
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
that has to save any litigation from the rider.
