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Brother from another mother.

I’m similar to a lot of young guys that are 10 feet tall and bullet proof and wanted a bike too. 2 of my closest friends rode bikes and I was seriously considering it. One Friday or Saturday night I picked up an order of Chinese food and was headed over to a buddies house where several of us planned on dinner, drinks and movies at home instead of going out to the bars…AGAIN. I was 18 and had just finished my EMT certification a month or so earlier when my pager went off. I was actually only a couple minutes behind the wreck on the highway and I arrived at the same time as the engine and aid car. It was a 30’s year old male that attempted to pass a vehicle but hit a sedan head on. We estimated that the impact speed was >150 mph.

We all started attending to the sole patient in this MVA and as we went to roll him on his back (I was down at the feet) his foot inside his tennis shoe fell and I instinctively went to catch it but it was still attached by his Achilles’ tendon. We got MAST pants on him but it wasn’t going to matter one bit so we canceled airlift. His drivers license stated he was 6 feet tall but the patient that lay before me was so totally and completely broken that he was maybe 5 feet tall laying there.

Long story short I never had the urge to get a motorcycle ever again. That was my first introduction to motorcycle versus automobile and unfortunately it would be far from my last. In my experience many of the wrecks would’ve theoretically have been a minor accident with no or minor injuries but when 1 of the vehicles was a bike it often was a serious wreck with permanent injuries or death.