Motorcyclist Killed in Car-Motorcycle Accident
According to a report from the News and Sentinel website in West Virginia, a 66-year-old man was killed in a motorcycle-car accident that occurred on Saturday afternoon. Roy Hearn was declared dead at the scene of the accident. In a separate incident, Hearn’s son and daughter-in-law were injured when their own motorcycles also crashed.
In the incident involving Roy Hearn, he was reportedly riding his motorcycle followed by his son and a third rider when he apparently lost control of the motorcycle on an S-turn roadway. Hearn collided head-on with a pickup truck that was traveling in the opposite direction. Hearn’s son lost control of his own motorcycle after the exhaust pipe got caught on the road and Michael Hearn landed in an embankment. Michael Hearn was reportedly injured in the accident but was treated at a medical facility and released. There are many potential causes for the accident including the fact that Hearn had previously ridden a motorcycle for years but prior to the accident, Hearn had not ridden in some time. Other possible factors are motorcycle wear, unfamiliarity with the roadways and possible road defects.
Motorcycle accidents can sometimes be attributed to inexperience on the part of a rider. Not only can inexperience be constituted when a rider did not previously ride a motorcycle, but also when a long span of time has past since the last time they had ridden a motorcycle. Inexperience with certain routes can also cause trouble for a motorcycle rider and inevitably lead to a serious accident, primarily because the rider may not see if a turn is coming or a sudden stop and they may miss it. This can easily lead to extremely dangerous situations for motorcycle riders.
