This morning, on my way to work I got caught up in slowing traffic near the point were the A6 motorway changes into the A1. While I was slowing down I noticed the red X above one of the lanes and before I even could think aloud "probably an accident", I got passed by an ambulance zooming by with all lights and sirens on. Obviously the accident just happened. After a minute or so I got close to the spot where it all happened. Just 100 yards before I got there, I could hear the dreaded sound of a helicopter, wich means there was a severe trauma going on and the trauma team got called in.
When I finally drove by the spot itself I saw three cars piled up but that wasn't the reason why the trauma team was there: about a hundred feet futher a motorcycle was piled up into a heap of scrap and near it the medics from the ambulance were holding the driver's head stable. Although I only saw it for a second it seemed that the guy still had all his extremities attached (once I drove by a motorcycle accident where the guy got decapitated). So it was unclear how much damage he had.
It send some chills down my spine: I never liked motorbikes just because you are so damn vunerable if anything happens. No airbags, no cage surrounding you, no rollbar etc. etc.. sure: it might be a fast way to get form A to Z and during summer it probably is one of the coolest ways to get around (besides a convertible of cabriolet as we call it), but the chances of surrviving an accident are very slim.
The problem is that the last few weeks traffic is getting slower (hollidays are over and people are returning from their sky trips etc.) and the weather better. So lot's of people are getting their motorbikes out and try to elude the traffic by zooming by. A lot of the drivers are unexperienced or take to many risks trying to pass the traffic jams too fast.
Well, I saw the result of that this morning. Again.
When I finally drove by the spot itself I saw three cars piled up but that wasn't the reason why the trauma team was there: about a hundred feet futher a motorcycle was piled up into a heap of scrap and near it the medics from the ambulance were holding the driver's head stable. Although I only saw it for a second it seemed that the guy still had all his extremities attached (once I drove by a motorcycle accident where the guy got decapitated). So it was unclear how much damage he had.
It send some chills down my spine: I never liked motorbikes just because you are so damn vunerable if anything happens. No airbags, no cage surrounding you, no rollbar etc. etc.. sure: it might be a fast way to get form A to Z and during summer it probably is one of the coolest ways to get around (besides a convertible of cabriolet as we call it), but the chances of surrviving an accident are very slim.
The problem is that the last few weeks traffic is getting slower (hollidays are over and people are returning from their sky trips etc.) and the weather better. So lot's of people are getting their motorbikes out and try to elude the traffic by zooming by. A lot of the drivers are unexperienced or take to many risks trying to pass the traffic jams too fast.
Well, I saw the result of that this morning. Again.
