There a numerous videos of motorcycles evading the police on the net. These are somewhat unique in that you get to see the rider’s view on the bike. When I saw these videos I was reminded of some pictures I saw a couple of years ago from the Stockholm Motorcycle Fair. I will include the pictures at the bottom of the post. They speak for themselves and explain the public outcry over street racing and people who evade the police.
The first video should be watched to the end. When the police are spotted the chase is on and it goes on for quite a distance. You will see at the end that a civilian nearly misses broadsiding the police vehicle as it pursues this maniac.
This video is from Sweden. The rider taunts police on a couple of occasions. The rider is a maniac reaching 336 km/hour which is in excess of 180 miles/hour. Some websites report that the driver of the bike was apprehended.
While this video is not a chase, it is of good quality and gives the viewer a true sense of the risk that this rider presents to himself and everyone on the highway. At 135 miles/hour he is driving between and swerving amongst the vehicles.
The person who posted this video to Youtube reports that he reached speeds in excess of 130 miles/hour running from the police.
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Now to the photos from the Stockholm Motorcycle Fair. The Honda rider was traveling at such a “very high speed”, his reaction time was not sufficient enough to avoid this accident. Swedish Police estimate a speed of ~250 KM/h (155mph) before the bike hit the side of the slow moving car at an intersection. At that speed, they predicted that the rider’s reaction time (once the Volkswagen came into view) wasn’t sufficient enough for him to even apply the brakes. The car had two occupants and the bike rider was found INSIDE the car with them, along with the motorcycle itself.The Volkswagen actually flipped over from the force of impact and landed 10 feet from where the collision took place. All three involved (two in the car, plus the rider) were killed instantly. At 250 KM (155 mph) the operator is traveling at 227 feet per second. With normal reaction time to SEE-DECIDE-REACT of 1.6 seconds the above operator would have traveled over 363 feet while making a decision on what actions to take. In this incident the Swedish police indicate that no [such] actions were taken.
