Group ride gone wrong...

[denny]

For those who don't read uk_bikers, a link:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/alexey/54385.html

Ignore the Russian text (unless you read Russian, in which case translate it for us, ta!), and just scroll down to the image with all the timestamped links under it. Open all the links and flick through the pictures. Wince as necessary.

Comments

[skx.livejournal.com]

*Ouch*

That is unreal ...

[strange-lady.livejournal.com]

*looks, cringes, passes link on to non-lj'er*

How on *earth* did they have that accident? Aren't they all stationary?

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Um, no. They were riding down the road at about 50mph, then one near the front of that mess went down. Because it happened just over the crest of a hill, people just kept slamming into the pile.

The images are timestamped - you can see that many of them are only about two seconds apart or something, and you can clearly see the problem building up impact by impact :-\

[strange-lady.livejournal.com]

Aaah, I see now. I couldnt see the "movement" between pictures. Wonder if theres a russian-english translator around.

[uberredfraggle.livejournal.com]

I've sent the link to my brother to see if he can translate. I'll post it up if he does it and expect people will post links.

[strange-lady.livejournal.com]

I tried it in babelfish and got the usual - mostly english with what I presume are russian slang terms left behind. No casualties from the accident though which is good.

[uberredfraggle.livejournal.com]

Really no casualties? Including the guy in the first pic who is upside down in mid air? Or maybe just minor.

[strange-lady.livejournal.com]

From the comments and things that were translated, 18 injuries but no deaths. As soon as the first one went down someone was calling the emergency services and people coming over the hill on the other side tried to stop the bikers (you can see that I think). I think it said something like 4 emergency calls were made as more people hit the crashpoint.

[uberredfraggle.livejournal.com]

Ah did you mean no fatalities? Yeah considering how bad it looks it could have been a lot lot worse on the casualty side of things.

[strange-lady.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I dunno why but I always mean casualties to mean dead as opposed to walking wounded. :)

We have bike meets of that sort of scale near me, I can't recall any serious crashes. When you have a few hundred bikes, some parked in the middle of the road (strange road markings, theres a bit big enough to park a bike on..) its amazing.

[uberredfraggle.livejournal.com]

Myself and dennyd were tlaking about this on msn. Rides liek that in this country do tend to be closer but slower and on different roads.

[strange-lady.livejournal.com]

True. Maybe our bikers are more careful or something too :)

My friend tried to drag me to a rally..but the tales of what they do to rally virgins made me hide.

[uberredfraggle.livejournal.com]

I think it's different roads and styles of riding. It seem they ride closer together over here on big rides like that but slower and possibly not in such big groups.

owieeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[antihope.livejournal.com]

ouch
i still wanna maybe get a motorcycle one day, though..

still ouch

[djlongfella.livejournal.com]

So this was " ride with your eyes shut " day then huh ?