This just happen the other day.
MINNEAPOLIS - A motorcyclist is dead after hitting a pothole Tuesday night at more than 100 mph on Interstate 394 in Minneapolis.
Eyewitnesses saw two motorcyclists traveling east on I-394 at “very, very high rates of speed,” said Minnesota State Patrol Lt. Jason Bartell.
The motorcycles were going between 100 and 120 mph, he said.
Shortly before 10 p.m., Anand Baskaran, 30, of East Northport, N.Y., was ejected after hitting a pothole and losing control near Theodore Wirth Parkway, according to the patrol.
Witnesses said Baskaran had been wearing a helmet, although those first on the scene did not observe one. A helmet was later recovered at the scene.
The other motorcyclist “took off,” Bartell said, and authorities were looking for that person, who is described as driving a black 2009-10 Honda CBR sport-style motorcycle.
It was not immediately clear whether the two motorcyclists were racing. The patrol did not receive any reports of the bikers weaving through traffic, Bartell said.
This is Minnesota’s first death of a motorcyclist in 2014, according to the Minnesota Department of Public Safety.
The stretch of road, a 3-lane freeway that was already bad and slated for repaving, was made worse from the harsh winter. I drive this daily with my truck and I have to dodge the holes. It's been too cold and wet for the Hwy dept. for them to use even temporary patch material to fix these until just this week, and they can't get to every hole if they wanted too. It sad that this had to happen, but the drivers have to take some/most responsibility as this road has been on the many local news channels how bad it is, and they were flying down it in dark to boot!!.
Drive safe..at least for a while....from the land of 10,000 pot holes......
MINNEAPOLIS - A motorcyclist is dead after hitting a pothole Tuesday night at more than 100 mph on Interstate 394 in Minneapolis.
Eyewitnesses saw two motorcyclists traveling east on I-394 at “very, very high rates of speed,” said Minnesota State Patrol Lt. Jason Bartell.
The motorcycles were going between 100 and 120 mph, he said.
Shortly before 10 p.m., Anand Baskaran, 30, of East Northport, N.Y., was ejected after hitting a pothole and losing control near Theodore Wirth Parkway, according to the patrol.
Witnesses said Baskaran had been wearing a helmet, although those first on the scene did not observe one. A helmet was later recovered at the scene.
The other motorcyclist “took off,” Bartell said, and authorities were looking for that person, who is described as driving a black 2009-10 Honda CBR sport-style motorcycle.
It was not immediately clear whether the two motorcyclists were racing. The patrol did not receive any reports of the bikers weaving through traffic, Bartell said.
This is Minnesota’s first death of a motorcyclist in 2014, according to the Minnesota Department of Public Safety.
The stretch of road, a 3-lane freeway that was already bad and slated for repaving, was made worse from the harsh winter. I drive this daily with my truck and I have to dodge the holes. It's been too cold and wet for the Hwy dept. for them to use even temporary patch material to fix these until just this week, and they can't get to every hole if they wanted too. It sad that this had to happen, but the drivers have to take some/most responsibility as this road has been on the many local news channels how bad it is, and they were flying down it in dark to boot!!.
Drive safe..at least for a while....from the land of 10,000 pot holes......
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