Hit-and-run suspect surrenders; video shows moment of impact - KDVR

I've said this over and over, it takes extroadinary mental skills to ride a motorcycle in traffic, especially here in Las Vegas. You must know how, where and what to look for when you are riding out on the steets. If you do that you should never have to rely on your physical skills.

So whenever your mental skills fail and when a hazard does suddenly appear in front of you, what do you do along with most riders? Grab a handful of brakes which is not the best method to stop. Maximum braking is to use both brakes without locking either wheel. That takes a lot of practice and requires muscle memory!

From the video, it appears that the rider was able to manage to apply the brakes without lowsiding even though he did lock them up. I give him credit there as most riders will crash before even reaching impact. Real important here, as you want to keep the bike upright to give yourself another chance to execute another corrective action which was to SWERVE!

The guy would have just experienced a brown pants moment if he would have just swerved to the right and then be ranting what a stupid cager almost cost him his life. But most riders forget that this is even an option and they automatically go to a handful of brakes and once again, you see another crash. This one cost the rider his life.

You've got to practice swerving and braking on a regular basis or it will all go to crap when you need it the most to save your life.

Helmet or no helmet, would not have mattered in this case.

And slow down riding on the surface streets. Look how much faster the rider was going compared to the two cars that he just passed. This is the reason why I never go more than 5 over on surface street these days. The freeways you can get away with speeding just because there are just not as many entry and exit points. Not saying that you should do this, but if you were to go fast, better on the freeway than on the surface streets.

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RIP to the rider. Good advice for all.

Wow, that sucks. He just plowed right into the SUV. Even if he had swerved a little bit he might have nicked the bumper and crashed. But he might have had a chance. That sucks. R.I.P.

Wow...that is rough But it's true, we constantly need to be practicing our skills.

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ugg.. Rest in peace rider =(

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yeah, this is too bad. Good advice Vegasrider! Thumbs up to the dude for turning himself in, but thumbs down to the rider for going SO fast on a surface street in traffic.

I also think he was distracted because if you keep replaying the video from about 1:03 on the time bar, you can see how far back he is when the SUV begins turning into his path. He had more than enough time to begin some sort of evasive action, but he still traveled a very long way before he hit the brakes.

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first of all r.i.p.rider, i watched that vid prob 20 times and it seems even at his high speed he could of still swerved to the right even if he laid it down at the last moment he whould still be alive, but thats easy for me to say, it does show that the right decition at the split second before a deadly crash is everything...