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These youths are stark raving mad

In reply to Chrissy WOW! That seems all so improbable that 5 motorcycle riders would die in a single accident like that. Any way you take it – it’s a very sad situation

In reply to birdseye

Not sure bout improbably enuh. This is junction road enuh and teenagers speeding on motorcycles.

In reply to beesis
and the bus overturned

I think motorcycles are really cool.

But the image I remember and is indelibly engraved in my memory is an incident on the Bath Estate bridge when I was a child....I must have been 10-11.
Guy lost his life on the bridge when he lost control and slammed into the side entrance.
Later that day I was walking over and paid attention to where he hit....there was brain mater still covering the area.

I will never, ever forget that.

The only bike I have riden is a moped type....and even then I was scared and have never cared to ride the bikes I find interesting.

In reply to Ayenmol
My sister and I owned a Honda 50.
Here in JA one of my co-workers would let me ride his own to go home to Mona sometimes. Never had an accident. In fact Imthink good motor bike riders make better car drivers because judgement is everything.
Jamaica has no provision for either cyclists or motor bike drivers and young folks here hate helmets and exercise absolutely no judgment.

Back in Guyana the brother of one of our good friends crashed and died on the race track while they were practicing - hit a bridge. Said he just wanted to,go,around one more time and that was that. That I’ll never forget. Danny- was the first teenage death we faced.

My Stats teacher in grad school had a joke; if you want your father to buy you a car, tell him you are thinking of buying a motor bike!

In reply to Chrissy

I agree about judgement. But am a guy who likes to push the limits on the road. I am a good driver, I think. But I do love to drive fast. Within reason and with the right equipment.
Rented a BMW 5 series in Florida few weeks back....man I cruised at 110 for long periods of time between orlando-miami and again orlando-Tampa.
But the car was just so poised at those speeds it was easy and did not feel unsafe with the traffic.

So imagine what I'd be prone to do on a more versatile bike. So am scared to get into that.

In reply to AyenmolMust be a female thing- be it cycle, motor bike, car,SUV or pick up, it’s just to get me from place to place. I’m a road angel as they call them.
The only ticket I ever got was a cop in Portland who couldn’t stop the car ahead of me and thought he could cash in with me. Since I had one of my then young nephews and his friends and I was definitely not speeding, so I told him to write the ticket.
The SOBs never showed up in court and the magistrate (a former classmate) threw it out after I told him what actually happened.
These folks are either interested in tax revenue or graft not road safety.

In reply to camos
Works most times

In reply to Chrissy

Are there helmet laws in Jamaica, curious?

So bloody sad.

In reply to bdaTryangle
So they say

In reply to Chrissy

Understood