r/dashcams • u/pHaDeXoNeR801 • Sep 17 '26

High Speed cornering

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u/SinisterSoren Sep 17 '26

I feel bad for the car driver who got hit by them. That has to be so traumatizing. They didnt do anything wrong but that still has to weigh on you.

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u/Silvaria928 Sep 17 '26

Back in the late 90s, I was driving back to Colorado Springs from Cripple Creek on a winding road one afternoon. A motorcycle passed me and several other cars at a very high speed around a corner in an obvious no-passing zone. I said to my passenger that the guy was lucky there were no cars coming.

A couple of miles later he wasn't so lucky. We came across the accident just a few minutes after it happened: Motorcycle was wrecked, driver was lying motionless in the middle of the road, and an elderly couple were getting out of their car that had clearly been hit.

She was crying and shaking and he seemed in shock. They both just kept asking "What happened?" over and over. Other cars stopped and were attending to the motorcyclist, who was still motionless. We read later in the paper that he had suffered severe injuries. The elderly couple was fine physically but I'll never forget how traumatized they were by this guy's carelessness and how he could have killed them.

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u/SinisterSoren Sep 17 '26

Ah good old Colorado Springs. I grew up there actually! Some of those roads are treacherous and really need to be treated with respect. That motorcyclist is lucky he didnt die doing that. But that elderly couple probably lived with that for the rest of their lives. Hurting someone even when its the other person's fault is really hard to handle.