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09-06-08, 10:14 AM | #1 |
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IOM Road accidents
After reading the sad post in the Border Patrol Forum and looking at the related article on the BBC website. To the right of the article there was lots of other IOM related news, and from what I could make out at least 4 people were sadly killed riding on the Island during TT week and many many more serious accidents.
Is that normally the case or has it been a bad year on the island for it? I dont know much about the weeks social side/ non race times....I just watch the racing on the TV.
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09-06-08, 10:30 AM | #2 |
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In a cold hearted way mate its quite often that someone dies I think. The year I was there, I think 3 died and one marshall. The marshall was trying to aid another rider in the road, the next to come round the corner had nowhere to go.
Its a risk a lot are willing to take and to me even though the Valentino Rossi's and Dani Pedrosa's of the world are the fastest on track, these guys have the most skill and balls to be able to do the road races. |
09-06-08, 11:16 AM | #3 |
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I dont mean actual riders racing though......just members of public riding their own bikes on the route.
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Having seen first hand some of the riding this year (and this is no judgement on any specific accident, as I didn't witness any first hand), I can well believe that to be the case.
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09-06-08, 02:39 PM | #5 |
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I was on the IOM from may 31st to june 6th. in that time there were 5 fatal that i heard of.
A french chap forgot the correct side of the road & hit an oncoming people carrier (no news on the occupants, so presumed survived) 2 germans ran into the back of a parked (empty) police car, both killed. thats gonna come back to haunt someone 2 unidentified foriegn riders punted each other off the mountain just around Dukes 32. on top of that there was a fatal car accident between Brandish & Hillberry (at least 1 fatality) apart from that, there were loads of very bad non-fatal accidents, including a guy who put himself into a tree at over 100mph near Ballaugh, trying to get a photo of himself with his front whell in the air. broke both arms & legs, all his ribs, very bad internal injuries. still alive when i was leaving on friday night (i was sat next to his mate on the ferry) sad news every year, Alan |
09-06-08, 04:02 PM | #6 |
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Police open roads incident statistics for TTs 2008 Fatal 4 Serious 18 Slight 17 Damage 41 Total 80 2007 Fatal 1 Serious 31 Slight 49 Damage 35 Total 116 2006 Fatal 0 Serious 24 Slight 24 Damage 33 Animal 2 Total 83 |
09-06-08, 04:20 PM | #7 |
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where did you get the stats from Iansv II?
they are really good. interesting that they show 4 fatal at TT08, when i heard there were 5 Alan |
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The French guy took the racing line at I recall it being Handleys, that was why he was on the wrong side of the road. No serious injury to the guy in a LandRover he hit. A Danish guy hit a car when he ran wide on a corner near Jurby and was killed. A guy was killed in an incident near 32nd, the other was seriously injured. The dead rider was a UK resident, don't know about the other. Those are the only four I'd heard of that were fatalities.
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09-06-08, 05:55 PM | #9 |
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Gazza77, you have much better contacts than I do. Just shows you how rumours get around. I suppose someone just presumed they were all foreign (possibly easier to stomach).
slightly better that only 4 died, but still 4 too many. did you hear about the guy just passed Ballaugh, who hit a tree? Any news on how he is doing? He is the guy whose mate I was sat next to on the ferry back to Heysham. apparently he wanted to get a photo/video of him on the back wheel as he went over a hump in the road. Got himself into a tank slapper & lost control. The accident was Thursday (am). Alan |
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