California Motorcycle Accident – Sport Bike Hits Harley
California Motorcycle Crash: Sport bike rider lowsides on the downhill sliding into a Harley coming up. Neither motorcycle rider was injured. The Harley-Davidson rider miraculously never fell off the bike!
Mulholland Highway in Los Angeles has been a mecca for motorcycles & fast cars for decades. Car and motorcycle clubs are regular visitors every weekend.
Jay Leno can often be found at the famous Rockstore and at a view point called Lookout talking with fellow motor enthusiasts.
Crashes are common as well as a heavy police presence on most weekends.
The Snake is a two mile section of Mulholland above the Rockstore.
California Motorcycle Crashes:
Mulholland Hwy motorcycle riders usually will make multiple runs along ‘The snake’ allowing videographers to move from corner to corner to capture many shots to use when assembling California motorcycle crash videos.
The speed limit is 45 mph, most riders are not going much over that so the majority of tickets are crossing the line, wheelies or equipment violations.
Bicycles are up here all the time but motorcycles and bikes seem to do fine together as long as the cyclists are willing to stay to the right.
Cars passing them are a bigger problem since there is no shoulder and most turns are blind.
On one top corner on Mulholland Highway seems to average one crash every couple weeks in the summer, out of many hundreds of riders. 911 emergency services are rarely called and accidents are seldom reported since most riders do not get severely injured .
93,000 motorcyclists were injured up from 81,000 in 2011.
Motorcyclists were about 26 times more likely than passenger car occupants to die in a crash per vehicle mile traveled and five times more likely to be injured.
There were about 8.5 million motorcycles on the road.
