Quote:This is what I was thinking.  I-95 can become a parking lot real quick.  But then again, there are a lot of rear end collisions and fender benders too when this happens.  It's unlikely this was just a simple rear end collision, because he wouldn't likely have run into the actual car that stopped if the was directly behind it.  It had to be a unique set of circumstances that led to the crash.  My guess is one of two things happened.  He was behind a car that abruptly evaded the stopped vehicle as it approached.  Or he was passing someone in the opposite lane right before the stopped car.  Either way, I'm guessing another car (or maybe something else) was blocking his vision at one point or another. 

 

Still have no explanation for why she stopped on the road though.  Helping ducks really isn't much of an explanation. 

 

Having been in a similar situation with large road debris that I couldn't see until the car in front of me swerved to avoid it, I can attest to how dangerous that can be for a motorcyclist to have an obstructed view that suddenly clears because of pending disaster.  I was lucky that the tool bucket that fell off the back of a truck bounced right instead of left and I was able to maneuver around it, but that really was just dumb luck that I went for the shoulder of the lane I was in instead of going the other way.   It doesn't take much to cause a tragic ending on a motorcycle if you're not paying attention, and even when you are, you're still at the mercy of the traffic around you.

 

A guy got killed on the Buckman Bridge a couple of years back on a Goldwing.  A truck in front of him lost an extension ladder (which happens more than you might think), and he had nowhere to go.  He swerved to avoid it and dumped the bike.  He was then hit by a car in another lane.  It's amazing how fast things can go badly. 

 

The reports indicated this girl had no hazards on.  If the accident happened at dusk or later, that would also explain quite a bit. 

 

There are so many factors that we simply don't know about here.

 

We just had what?  4 people die in an accident on I-95 a couple of weeks ago north of the World Golf Village.  That accident was one of those chain reaction events that was caused by traffic coming to a stop due to another accident further south.  It just takes a split second for something like that to occur, and it happens quite a bit with cars. Someone looks down at the speedo, looks back up and everything is stopped in front of them and they're doing 75 mph.  Imagine that same scenario with 2 less wheels, and no safety cage. 

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