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How to Survive a Motorcycle Accident (part 1 of 2)

Posted Mar 13, 2010 by eks

When I sat down to write this I had in mind a different topic — until I heard that my friend D. was in the hospital with multiple fractures following a wipeout on his motorcycle.  He crashed into a guardrail on a mountain road, by the way.  Guardrails are designed for enclosed vehicles ("cages", as motorcyclists call them), not for people on two-wheeled vehicles; collisions with guardrails often cause leg, spinal and head injuries to motorcyclists. But he’s alive — and given the seriousness of the accident, not severely injured — so I wanted to write about why.  Here are some ways to survive mishaps on your motorcycle:

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