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111 mph: Brevard Deputy of the Year avoids arrest under Florida ‘Super Speeder’ law
(www.clickorlando.com)
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The biker can only kill himself once.
500 pounds of bike and rider impacting another vehicle at >100mph can easily kill everyone in that other vehicle.
"The Public" bears much greater risk than the motorcyclist.
Maybe if the other vehicle is a tandem bicycle. Nobody is dying in a modern car or SUV due to being rear-ended by a motorcycle with a ~45mph speed differential.
You're not going to be personally harmed under those conditions on a freeway. A side impact due to cross- or turning-traffic on a two-way road? Maybe. Even then, a modern car is going to fare phenomenally well and much of the impact energy is turned into catapulting the rider into the air.
Those are actually ridden by members of the public, you know.
Even if you were correct (you're not), you're ignoring that the modern car or SUV is still going to be a total loss. That property damage is another risk born by the public.
And you're completely disregarding the head-on collision when that biker comes across the median and hits the car with a ~180mph speed differential. Or the T-bone when the car doesn't see the >100mph biker and turns across his path.
Are there a lot of tandem bicycles out on the freeway, where this event occurred?
I am entirely correct and, again, where was the collision in the event being discussed?
You want to make absurd hypothetical claims (that car drivers are terribly endangered by a motorcycle speeding in a single lane) and when that's shown to be false you want to talk about a "total loss". This is also pretty baseless. A motorcycle rear-ending a hypothetical car at a 45mph speed differential is unlikely to be a total loss of the car.
Oh, neat, more absurd hypotheticals that are phenomenally unlikely. Meanwhile, motorcyclists are killed all the time by oncoming drivers turning left across their path or simply veering into the motorcyclist's lane because dicking around on their phone is more important than controlling a multi-ton box.
Do you make a lot of turns on freeways?
Yeah, I've been involved in one of those. Driver was traveling at more than twice the speed limit. Had he been traveling only 20 over, he would have been where the driver would have reasonably been able to see him. But he was traveling more than twice the limit. The driver couldn't foresee that he would cross his path. Couldn't even see him before it was too late to stop his turn, or for the motorcyclist to evade.
Car was totaled. Motorcyclist went to jail.