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krooklyn9
03-06-2007, 09:35 AM
ORMOND BEACH -- -A biker was critically injured Monday after the victim's motorcycle was hit by a car on U.S. Highway 1 in the latest Bike Week accident in Volusia County.

The unidentified biker was airlifted to Halifax Medical Center with life-threatening injuries, said EVAC ambulance spokesman Mark O'Keefe.

The crash happened at 6:27 p.m. at 1760 N. U.S. Highway 1, near Calvary Church. An off-duty firefighter from Volusia County Fire Services saw the crash and called for help.

Two people in the car that struck the motorcycle had minor injuries. One of them refused to be taken to the hospital, O'Keefe said.

Officials from the Florida Highway Patrol were still on scene at 8:15 p.m., investigating the crash. O'Keefe said the biker was not wearing a helmet during the accident, the second Bike Week crash in a 24-hour period.
jayinfla
03-06-2007, 09:40 AM
No helmet again
KyleB
03-06-2007, 09:48 AM
im going to guess that 90% of the riders at bike week don't wear helmets, and my 90% guess might be conservative.
OhSNAP!!!
03-06-2007, 09:57 AM
Most people in Daytona dont wear helmets because half your time tryig to get around there is stuck in stop and go traffic in the hot sun. And they are by the beach so they wanna look sexy standing still.
krooklyn9
03-06-2007, 10:03 AM
Most people in Daytona dont wear helmets because half your time tryig to get around there is stuck in stop and go traffic in the hot sun. And they are by the beach so they wanna look sexy standing still.

But the strip in Daytona your going what 3 miles an hour. So it all good but yes you can still get hurt i know. But the drivers of the cage where hurt also so they had to be going at a nice speed to get hurt with minor injuries.
OhSNAP!!!
03-06-2007, 10:17 AM
Well what they probably didnt tell you is that the people in the cage werent wearing a seatbelt(they just tell you no helmets cause it makes a bigger impression). So I would assume like what happened to my friend he was goign down a street and someone wasnt paying any attention and probably plowed into the biker. F***in stuff happens all the time.