I know these kind of things happen all the time on motorcycles, way more than they ought to. What everyone always says to me has finally happened to someone close to me. "Its not you that you have to be careful of, its the other drivers on the road."

Long story short:
My buddy from back at home was riding down highway 16 in tacoma around cheney stadium in the left lane, going with traffic. Outta nowhere the right lane came to a stop and several cars slammed on their brakes. The car next to my friend however, could not stop in time so, instead of swerving into the shoulder as an competent driver would, they swerved into the left lane and hit my friend, who was doing about 60.

He flew off his bike and over the car in front of him and landed on his head. They rushed him to the hospital, where he has been in a coma for the past 3 days. The doctor initially gave him a 10% chance of survival. this is because when he landed on his heaad at 60-ish miles an hour, the 2 lobes in his brain shifted. Somehow he came out of a coma this morning and the doctors say he will be OK. All i hear is stories from my friends since i am at college, but they say his body is pretty much lifeless except that today he moved his head slightly and squeezed his hand a little bit. They are saying he'll come out of it ok, he has to have brain surgery to repair the damage to the lobes, but they are not sure how much of his motor skills he will still possess.

I would just like everybody to pray for him and wish him the best and hopefully he'll come out without too much of any kind of loss.

and to everybody else, please remember to always be aware of your surroundings and watch out for other drivers.

Thanks to everybody who read this

 

Really sorry to hear about that man. He will be in my prayers.

 

My deepest prayers goes out to him and his family.

 

I wish the best of luck for your friend, and im really sorry to hear about him. Do you know what happened to the driver???

 

****, i ride 16 all the time, and it scares the crap out of me how bad all the cagers are.
I really feel for your friend, and i hope for the best.

 

he looks like someone i would hangout with
hope he pulls through and best of luck to him.

 

You both are in my prayers.

 

Good luck. God be with you.

 

thanks for all the comments and care everyone... i'll try to keep it updated as i hear what happens.

as for what is going on with the driver of the car, i am not sure, i'll try to find out about that as well.

 

I'm curious, was your friend wearing a helmet?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Khmai_guy &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I'm curious, was your friend wearing a helmet?</TD></TR></TABLE>

He probably was. I don't think you can survive landing on your head at 60mph helmetless.

And best wishes to your friend, hope everything turns out ok.

 

HOLY ****. that's crazy, i go thru there like everyday. holy hell man .. best of luck to him, god's on his side.

i hate that curve though, stupid *** drivers and people slamming on their brakes and ****. there's always accidents going on around there.

 

yea he was wearing a helmet, in WA its illegal not to, although i think its just stupid to ever ride a bike without one.

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Odiedogcx &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">HOLY ****. that's crazy, i go thru there like everyday. holy hell man .. best of luck to him, god's on his side.

i hate that curve though, stupid *** drivers and people slamming on their brakes and ****. there's always accidents going on around there.</TD></TR></TABLE>

and yea, i see crazy stuff there all the time when i'm home in the summer. glad to see you didn't come out too bad after your accident. i came across ur thread over the weekend, didn't realize u were from puyallup tho...BTW: ur pics are the reason i'm lookin into gettin spools now... but yea, glad urs didn't turn out any worse than it did, cuz there was a lot of potential for that kind'a situation to be worse

 

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i go through there everyday too. that highway gets very congested around traffic jam and it doens't help with all the construction going on as well. i hope your friend goes through a quick recovery. **** like that shouldn't happen to anyone.

 

Hope he recovers.

 

god speed his recovery.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Khmai_guy &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">My deepest prayers goes out to him and his family. </TD></TR></TABLE>

 

Hope he pulls through

 

May god be with him and his family.

 

Best wishes to him and his family.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by RebornGSR &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Hope he pulls through </TD></TR></TABLE>

 

You and your buddy will be in my prayers

 

Hope everything works out.

 

I will be praying for him.

 

i wish lots of luck for him and his familyyyy