The below video shows a car making an illegal U-turn right into the path of a motorcycle rider.
Surveillance video shows the cycle skid on its side and slammed into the side of the car.
The motorcycle then burst into flames and the rider became trapped under the bike.
An office worker saw it all from a window. He called out to two other men. They ran out into the street and, without hesitation, they literally dove into the flames to save the motorcyclist.
“He was under the motorcycle. He was on fire. The motorcycle was on fire,” Solecki said.
“His legs were on fire. We were trying to get the fire out. Steve [Boon] brought the fire extinguisher out. I doused his legs and could see that they were out. And went over to try to put the fire out, but the heat of the fuel and oil was just intense. It was no match for the fire extinguisher,” SEPTA employee Joe Benedict said.
The heat was so intense; the men had to drag the unconscious victim further away.
At any moment, the gas tank could have exploded, but they weren’t thinking about that.
“You don’t even think about it, it’s just something you would do. To see somebody on fire, it’s scary and you just got to help,” Solecki said.
“You see a person, whether it be a brother or father, you got to help them,” SEPTA employee Steve Boon said.
The victim is identified as Walter Rivera.
He has broken bones and burns, but is expected to recover.
He is lucky to be alive thanks to the three men who risked their own lives to save his.
There really nothing the motorcycle rider could have done to prevent this accident except maybe slow down a bit.
The car clearly does an illegal U-Turn from the curb lane. The results are horrible.
Godspeed to the victim of this accident and I hope he recovers well, and soon.
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That’s what happens when you use the back brake in emergency stops and forget how to countersteer.
I hope that the rider will get out of this not badly injured !
Also, this kind of accident may arrive sometimes, it’s life, but the worst thing is that it loos like the car driver didn’t stop at all – this is truely unbearable 🙁
I hope the rest of the video shows him going back and assist…
Having seen several of this kind of accident (or bad situations), my rule of thumb is that any vehicle can do an unexepected maneuver.
Considering this, I try to adapt my speed to other vehicles, like slowing down when closing on stopped or very slow vehicles (as soon as I detect them), never pass a slow vehicle too fast (he’s maybe considering a turn, or hiding another vehicle), etc.
Drive safe.
Though this is really a bad accident, the bike rider seems to have been going at a high rate of speed on a most likely 35 MPH zone. Speed kills!
You need to always try to leave yourself a way out when riding a motorcycle. Unfortunately some of these situations are just unavoidable. The consequences are just so much tragic for someone on a motorcycle. They deserve as much compensation as possible when hit by careless trucks and cars.
The news caster said it: Car turns in front of a SPEEDING motorcycle. Speed kill.
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The consequences are just so much tragic for someone on a motorcycle. So, we need to be careful in order to keep us safe always…