Do you see the motorcycle?

[Sp!ke]

It was in Sweden circa 2005

Jury's still out on its authenticity though.


snopes.com: Do You See the Motorcycle?

 

[nick mercedes]

UK/abroad? Only reason I ask is that it's a LHD Golf. Would be strange to see it dragged around the world.

Are there any other photos of it around on the net? Surely if it'd been seen by thousands of people at motorshows it'd be all over the net by now?

Will

Could be real?

Looks like bikes can do some damage:

http://www.weird-websites.info/Weir...er-hits-car-accident-road-kill-motor-bike.jpg

http://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/localnews/2009/02/27/MotorcycleWreck.jpg

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

The bike being absorbed into the car: I'm trying to think through how that could happen, but given a hard enough impact then it's not a huge leap of faith.

However I would be surprised if that would be possible hitting the door square in the centre as it appears to have in the photos: if the door deflected into the car there are too many obstacles to impede it and the bike, making deflection the more likely event. I could more easily be convinced if it was near the edge of the door, near the b-pillar

The rider going with the bike into the car: I can't imagine that happening. The rapid deceleration would surely rip the rider from the bike, and project him over the car.

If the riders head some how wedged between the handlebars and the screen - or hitting the top rail - then I would imagine that his torso would lift and pivot around the drivers head, and project him over the car (albeit cartwheeling).

Strange things happen though.

 

[Sp!ke]

in a similar vein

Thai Police Erect Fake Crash Sites To Deter Drunk Driving - Thailand Drunk Driving - Jalopnik

 

[rf065]

How would the bike end up inside the car unless the door was open?


Russ

 

[nick mercedes]

Do you see the motorcycle?

You'd think that the bonnet of the car or the wings would be more damaged if it had been flipped over with enough force to flatten the roof.

 

[BTB 500]

Purely the fact that it's been presented with at least two different accident stories would make me think it was faked.

 

[G.O'Rilla]

I would have thought that a relatively recent car such as this would have had the mandatory door beams in them as crash protection for the passengers...... Also the back end of the bike is nowhere near damaged enough for something that has rolled.

Interesting, though.

 

[Alfie]

As it says three people died in the car then I would have thought that it would have been dismantled a lot more to simply retrieve the body parts. In any event there would be claret all over the place and cleaning that up in such a tangled wreck would be almost impossible.

Also if one of my relatives had died in that car I wouldnt really want it to be an object that people stared at for whatever reasons.

My verdict is fake. Created to show what COULD happen.

 

[shorty]

This is how the bike would look

This was a 2006 GSXR1000 , the bike was involved in a crash at appx 150 mph , the rider was killed .

 

[Sp!ke]

I'll go along with shorty here.

I've seen a bike that was involved in an impact at considerably less speed than the 155mph quoted in the OP.

The bike I saw had its front and rear wheels almost touching with the back wheel (that didnt hit anything) seriously buckled purely from the rapid deceleration.

So I'm inclined to think that it was staged.

 

[shorty]

I also noticed that the bike in the pic seems to be a VFR 400 , abd 155 out of these bikes is imposable ,

 

[Sp!ke]

well spotted.

I suspect a very healthy VFR400 would take an absolute age to get up to a genuine 130 with 120mph being a more realistic target.

That bike looks like it was a bit of a dog before the accident.

 

[st13phil]

Whether those pic's are real or faked, no one should doubt the damage to a car if T-boned by a bike (let alone the damage to the rider and car occupants).

A few years ago when Essex Traffic Division were still using bikes extensively I had a day out at their driving school in Chelmsford where one of the instructors showed us photo's of the damage done to a Ford Fiesta that pulled out on one of their officers mounted on a Honda Pan-European. The impact speed was estimated to be approx 40mph; the rider had "flown" over the top of the car, fortunately sustaining only minor injuries. The front of the Pan was definitely somewhat squashed, but the shocking part was that the Fiesta was almost cut in two. I don't remember the injuries sustained by the driver or whether they survived.

 

[rees_A]

blimey

 

[Sp!ke]

A few years ago when Essex Traffic Division were still using bikes extensively I had a day out at their driving school in Chelmsford where one of the instructors showed us photo's of the damage done to a Ford Fiesta that pulled out on one of their officers mounted on a Honda Pan-European. The impact speed was estimated to be approx 40mph; the rider had "flown" over the top of the car, fortunately sustaining only minor injuries. The front of the Pan was definitely somewhat squashed, but the shocking part was that the Fiesta was almost cut in two. I don't remember the injuries sustained by the driver or whether they survived.

Something is not quite right about this story me thinks.

I've hit a car side on at 40+ whilst astride an old CX500 in very similar circumstances. Luckily I escaped without too serious injuries as I was also thrown over the top.

The car that pulled out on me was an old XJ6 jaguar and whilst I admit it is likely to be a stronger car, the damage was surprisingly small. The door skin was seriously buckled but the window didnt even smash and there didnt appear to be any damage to the rest of the car. The door still opened and closed as if nothing had happened. I struggle to comprehend that a fiesta could "almost be cut in two" under such similar conditions.

Either the officer on the bike was being very economical with his speed or the Fiesta was seriously damaged prior to the accident (cut and shut) - maybe both.

 

[PXW]

Something is not quite right about this story me thinks.

I've hit a car side on at 40+ whilst astride an old CX500 in very similar circumstances. Luckily I escaped without too serious injuries as I was also thrown over the top.

The car that pulled out on me was an old XJ6 jaguar and whilst I admit it is likely to be a stronger car, the damage was surprisingly small. The door skin was seriously buckled but the window didnt even smash and there didnt appear to be any damage to the rest of the car. The door still opened and closed as if nothing had happened. I struggle to comprehend that a fiesta could "almost be cut in two" under such similar conditions.

Either the officer on the bike was being very economical with his speed or the Fiesta was seriously damaged prior to the accident (cut and shut) - maybe both.

cut and shut would make sense (especially if it's in essex...)

 

[st13phil]

Something is not quite right about this story me thinks.

The pic's we were shown were taken by the team that investigated the Pol-Acc, so there was limited scope for hyperbole. The Fiesta wasn't in the first flush of youth and thus tin-worm probably had a fair degree of influence over its reduced structural rigidity, but the degree of damage was truly astonishing.

 

[Swiss Toni]

I'll go along with shorty here.

I've seen a bike that was involved in an impact at considerably less speed than the 155mph quoted in the OP.

The bike I saw had its front and rear wheels almost touching with the back wheel (that didnt hit anything) seriously buckled purely from the rapid deceleration.

So I'm inclined to think that it was staged.

Which OP said 155mph?

 

[LimitedSlip]

Which OP said 155mph?

The second OP!

Extreme Motorcycle Crash, Sweden, 2004-2005