Video shows near disaster after motorcyclist drives between cars in Nashville
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- Dashcam video shows a motorcyclist splitting a lane between two cars and very nearly causing a devastating accidents. Police say such high risk behavior is becoming more commonplace.
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As a motorcyclist, I condemn that guy’s dangerous riding. He’s a danger to himself and everyone around him, and he shows no regard to anyone he shares the road with. Idiots like him make the rest of us look bad. He should have his license revoked.
Nice to see your input.
Don't talk about the car swerving over in front of the bike he's the asshole
100%
Lane splitting is illegal in TN; bike doesn't have a clearly displayed rear license plate; bike is probably stolen; rider probably doesn't have a license; the list goes on and on...
These a holes that do this claim it’s for safety.
I've seen them argue online that they are doing the people in the cars a favor by doing this, since it allows them to move on with their motorcycles and not add to the traffic jam by taking up a lane.
Kidna like the USA claims guns are for safety, but don't you DARE tell us that splitting away from bullets is more dangerous
I think some motorcycle riders are lumping their “filtering” driving with “lane filtering” which is legal in many states, that allows the motorcycles to filter between cars when stopped at a light. Lane filtering IS safer for motorcycle riders, as it is way too easy for a car to “not see them” and rear end them (which is inconvenient for a car, but often fatal for a motorcycle).
@@bigedslobotomy Lane filtering is also illegal in Tennessee, just like lane splitting is illegal in Tennessee. This video is from an intersection about 30 miles (+ or -) northwest of the geographic center of Tennessee, so it was illegal for the motorcycle rider to do this, regardless of whether you consider it to be splitting or filtering.
@@YamahaMt0guns aren't for safety, guns are for defending yourself, your family, and your country. A holes like you want that taken away.
Notice his license plate is not even visible.
Would have been interesting to see the list of violations, if a cop had been there and managed to catch him.
@@paulstevens7528…Umm, you mean the arrest, right?
@@charliepiland3285 I mean the list that the officer would have made if the guy had been caught after he ran. The obvious ones would be lane splitting, hit and run, and plate not visible. We can only speculate about what else a cop would have found, but hit and run incidents sometimes involve not having the required liability insurance and/or driving on a suspended license.
No I didn't
I ride but don't lane split
So, no mention of any leads / efforts to ID the bike or the rider who left the scene of the accident he caused? Great reporting.
Now,let’s hope his friends/family turn this dangerous dirtbag dude in to the cops?!?
no plate displayed, what are they supposed to do?
car swerving over in front of the bike
Usually lane splitting results in blood spitting.
Organ donors on 2 wheels.
Only an American could blame the victim running away, why not look at the gun man shooting everyone instead???????
Motorcyclists: "WaTcH oUt fOr MoToRcyCLeS!!!"
Also motorcyclists: "Watch me break the law and endanger the public!"
Different riders.
Right.... look twice save a life but then here comes IDIOT playing stupid games!
The real problem is cars like to play cop, they fail to understand what's happening around them and just think of a book (that has hundreds of versions)
The road is unpredictable and you need to expect the unexpected, don't get upset because someone didn't do something by the book as they are just reading the road
@@YamahaMt0 Ummmm, a lot more motorcyclists "play cop" than drivers. Everything else you said also applies to motorcyclists, especially since they are putting their lives more directly at risk.
@@MrRidleyDog nah, for example going over a stop line.
Bikes do it to reduce getting hit but cars do it to be an ass,
Lane splitting is legal in California. Nashville has been flooded with people moving here from California. Connection between those two facts?
I've seen a guy lane splitting on Murfreesboro Rd, and he was also occasionally hopping into the turn lane to pass cars. He didn't seem concerned about how little clearance he had for his antics, or the condition of the brakes on the cars around him.
You are probably right because people IN california you have too types DUMACRATS AND THE IGNORANT AND IT'S ONE IN THE SAME
Doesn't matter where one is from... you follow the laws and/or customs in that state and/or country.
@@Jennifer-nu4ft Doesn't seem to work that way in Tennessee, where we are constantly being told how things were done so much better/smarter/etc in the state the person moved from.
@paulstevens7528 yes I know that conversation. Born and raised South Nashville which I don't recognize at all now.
I like how they needlessly and without connection, drug car enthusiasts into the report.
Well, souped up cars are a problem. People who own them actually think that they can drive them well.
I have zero respect or concerns for todays riders. They act as if they are the only ones on the road.
So they act like everyone else. Including you.
Bikes do things to SURVIVE, CARS do things to be an ahole
@@YamahaMt0 How is lane splitting something that is done to survive, particularly in a state where lane splitting and lane filtering have always been completely illegal.
@@paulstevens7528 how is running away from a gun man done to survive?
The only people that don't believe in splitting are those who don't want victims getting away, that's why you can have high powered engines/weapons but you get in trouble for avoiding them
USA the land of the free, problem is they don't care how many dead bodies they walk over to keep it.
Thank god I'm not American and live in a place that's safe
@@YamahaMt0 Then by all means, please remain safely outside of the US. It's clearly too dangerous for you.
Squids like this give all riders a bad name.
After watching stuff like this, it makes it hard to worry about watching out for bikers.
For those who keep trying to make the motorcyclist a victim and blame the driver of the red car for this without bothering to figure out the lane shift at that exact point, this happened on White Bridge Rd at the point where an exit ramp from the westbound side of I-40 meets White Bridge Rd. This is in Nashville, which is not only the state capitol, but also currently the city with the highest population in the state of Tennessee. Last year, a bill to make lane filtering legal in this state was introduced in the state legislature, and I heard nothing more about the bill after that, so it likely never made it out of the first committee. Most people have no clue what lane filtering is, and if you try explaining it to them, they tend to jump straight to things like this video, or examples that they have personally seen (it has become more common in Nashville) of riders lane splitting and using any other opening (legal or not) in order to pass cars in heavy traffic.
Last year, Nashville's DA proved that he would respond to his office being flooded with complaints (mainly from out of state and over a youtube video going viral with what later turned out to be false information) by opening an investigation into whether felony charges could be filed against the person that police had already cleared of any wrongdoing, then spending two months wasting our tax dollars doing a more detailed investigation than he probably does for murder cases, before eventually allowing a press release from the police department stating that the internet mob's target had been cleared on the day of the incident by the statements of the person that the internet mob considered to be the victim. The person that the internet mob identified as one of their own and wanted the other person effectively lynched, had explained the situation to police in a way that made it clear that the other person had simply walked into a bad situation and reacted in a way that the police considered not only reasonable, but legally justified. Since they had cooperated by explaining the situation to police, and they were the one that ended up with the worst 'injury' of the incident, police apparently didn't see the need in hitting them with the fine for causing the incident.
So go ahead and keep blaming the driver of the red car for following the white lines painted (and somewhat faded) on the road at that spot. Work yourselves up into flooding the DA's office with complaints demanding that the driver of the red car be charged for trying to kill the rider. And then once you do that, you can forget about a bill to make lane filtering legal having any chance of being seriously considered in the state legislature. It wouldn't surprise me if it led to the state legislature being pressured to increase the penalty for lane splitting or filtering (since the majority of the public and the majority of the state legislature can't explain the difference between the two) to a fine of several hundred dollars and several months in jail. If you think I'm crazy for suggesting that could happen, take a minute and look up the penalty for doing a wheelie on a public road in Tennessee.
Blah blah blah cager cager cager cop cop cop
STOP KILLING MOTORCYCLES
Some of these people are from california and are not aware that lane splitting is not allowed in Tennessee.
Lotta cyclists trying very hard to deflect here!!!
I'm tired of seeing billboard that say be careful of motorcycles, or look twice save a life. I see those jerks on the road all the time.
Yup "Start seeing motorcycles"... I see this kind of crap all the time.
You should flush your toilet
Most idiots don’t even see a big rig, how can they see a mosquito?
I choose not to as they put themselves in harms way. Plus they help sustain my F-350 dually.
@@vihtoripuurola3775
7.3l?
I'm not saying the bike should be able to drive between cars, but the red car clearly deliberately swerved over to hit the biker. Which is Worse. driving between cars or trying to kill someone. The red car clearly crossed the center line to hit the bike.
100%,
Just waiting for a comment from Paul 😂
Were you in the red car? Did the driver tell you this? How do you know, and why should anyone believe anything you say?
You watched the video and you still don’t know what’s going on. The red car was following the traffic lane, the black car drove in a straight line even though the lane was curving, and his tires even went over the line before he abruptly corrected.
@@YamahaMt0not 100%, you had better watch the video again
@@bokesnmokes why, I've done it 😂
200% 😂
No. He was not doing 100 MPH. More like 45 at most. While he could do better, the way how the intersection lanes are set up is largely to blame. Portland, OR roads are like this also, and most car drivers that travel the same road daily can't figure out which are their lanes.
If he hadn't broken state laws by lane splitting, the worst that could have happened is that the car in the right lane might have sideswiped the car in the left lane, if the driver in the right lane went straight a little farther before noticing that their lane shifted to the right. What you're not seeing in this video is that the cars were stopped at the beginning of the video at a light for cars wanting to make a left turn from an I-40 exit ramp that is to the right of the camera, and the contact between the motorcycle and at least one of the cars occurred at a spot where two lanes from that exit ramp are making a merging right turn. To complicate it further, one of the curving overpasses visible at the next intersection in front of them is an I-40 exit ramp that was added to allow bypassing those intersections and lights if you want to go the same direction the motorcycle did after the collision, and there is an additional I-40 exit ramp directly to the neighborhood you would be entering if you made a right at the light in front of them. Which leaves the majority of the traffic making that merging right turn where the impact occurred, actually crossing the two lanes to get to the left turn lanes at that next intersection.
The guy on the motorcycle was pulling his little moving violation at a spot where it's a miracle that there aren't more collisions between cars.
Let's be honest here. There's no way that the rider on the bike though that there was a lane between those two cars, no matter how bad marked lanes are.
Lane splitting is safer than staying behind the car. 30+ year rider in CA with over 300K miles logged with ZERO accidents.
Safer if motorists are educated about it, Dangerous in Tennessee because they are not aware of it and dont look for lane splitters like they do in California.
That was a side view mirror the motorcyclist contacted not a “ rear view mirror.”
It looked like that red car was oblivious and about to side swipe the grey car right before the bike came between them.
I find it interesting that no one else noticed the red car swerve. I detest lane splitting, but this was caused by the red car.
The lanes shift to the right at that point, to make room for the two left turn lanes (for the next intersection) that start at that point. The red car was following the lines marked on the road. The car in the right lane was apparently not paying attention and continued driving straight, resulting in the car in the right lane crowding the red car. If you watch for the lines painted on the road, they are visible after the motorcycle takes off through the next intersection. That spot is a mess during rush hour, and it is a miracle that there are not more cars colliding with each other, because there are also two lanes from an I-40 exit ramp that are supposedly making a merging right turn at the point where those two lanes shift to the right, but the majority of those cars from the exit ramp are actually crossing those two lanes to get to the two left turn lanes.
@@paulstevens7528 did you miss one? 😂
OF COURSE the guy on the bike was a dumbass, but did anyone notice that the black car kept going straight when the lanes shifted right, putting their left-side tires RIGHT ON THE WHITE LINE? They might have HIT the other car but for the motorcycle squeezing through!
That particular spot is where two lanes coming from the right of the camera' view are supposedly making a merging right turn into the lanes those two cars were in, but due to the overall layout of the surrounding intersections and ramps they are actually crossing those two lanes to get to the left turn lanes that start at that point. Collisions between cars at that spot should not be a huge surprise.
Nick did they find the man driving motorcycle
Who actually thinks lane splitting is a good idea? Smh
Maybe the DB in the red car should have just paid attention to their lane instead of trying to cut the bike off . The guy on the bike was wrong but the guy in the red car should’ve been charged for intentionally trying to run the bike over just because somebody else does something wrong it doesn’t mean you should to . It’s all on the video. The guy on the bike is not intentionally trying to kill somebody the guy in the red car.
If you look at 0:44 in the video, they took a still frame from the dashcam video showing that the red car is driving parallel to the white line marking the boundary between the two lanes, while the car in the right lane is angled toward the white line and the red car. Both lanes shift to the right at that point, to make room for the two left turn lanes that start at that point. You can see the white lines turn back to the left in front of the cars, after the motorcycle takes off, so that the lanes parallel the two turn lanes for the next intersection. The car in the right lane was the one that was cutting off the motorcycle, by continuing to go straight. But it's much harder to assume their intent for simply continuing to go straight down the road.
@@paulstevens7528 hello 👋 😂
Metro \davidson does not have staff to write traffic ticket even when license is shown. Court is too busy to go after minor traffic charges
Motorcycles are a hazard on the roads! We had an accident such as this. The guy did stop and took care of things.
Back track. ..Find. Dude..
Modern day civics
too busy to golf
Showers r golden
This is happening in Buffalo withe the same motor cycle I saw it today.
It was so great to also see and here Ms Phillys ❤
When Motorcycles need to make an escape cars are normally like NOPE, why close the gap or make things more dangerous in general?
Enough of he said she said bs and just remember how important humun life is, just because you have right away doesn't mean you can attempt murder
Try looking at the lines painted on the road, before you assume the motives of the drivers.
@@paulstevens7528 that's classic 😂 because car's will attempt murder because a bike when over a white Line.
- the most common one is over a stop line (for safety)
@@YamahaMt0 Both lanes shift to the right at that point, to make room for the two left turn lanes (for the intersection in front of them) that start at that point. If you look at the intersection in front of them and notice the curving overpasses, the overpass on the far right has a straight stretch that is about half a mile long, then a slight turn to the left, then it hits the curve to the right over that intersection. The way it's laid out, you really can't see how tight that curve to the right is, until it is right in front of you. There have been incidents of motorcycles building up a lot of speed on the straight stretch, easing into that turn to the left, then hitting the curve to the right without enough room to brake for it. In the attempt to make the turn, they drift over to the left wall, hit the left wall, then get launched over the wall of the overpass to land in the area around that intersection that is in front of the cars in the video. Not a single action from a car is needed for that to happen.
It's a moronic area to ignore the traffic laws.
@@paulstevens7528 you don't understand or why he did it as you never know what danger was behind him, that's the problem as when a motorcycle escapes one hazard another car then gets rage because they think he is just being a dick. Now a target so have to split again
Just different pov and escaping is not the problem but what they are ESCAPING from
@@YamahaMt0 At the end of the video, he was clearly escaping from responsibility for causing a collision, which moved his list of charges from lane splitting, to lane splitting and hit and run. Someone else has pointed out that his plate is not visible, which would be another violation police could have added to the list if they had caught him. Quite frequently in the area around the city where this happened, hit and run is done by someone who either did not have the required liability insurance and/or was driving/riding without a valid license to operate the vehicle in question.
Maybe this was just another dumb criminal trying to escape the consequences of his own actions? Given that he is now facing a hit and run charge, which could be bumped up to a felony if the court wants to upgrade it to reckless driving, those consequences could easily be six months in jail.
What was the red car doing? Maybe assault.
It was following the lines that are painted on the road. Those lines indicate that both lanes shift to the right, to make room for the two left turn lanes at the intersection that is in front of those cars. You can see those lines more clearly after the motorcycle takes off. Way too many people are jumping to conclusions about what the red car is doing, when they have obviously never driven through that intersection and didn't take the time to look at the white lines showing where the lanes are in the video.
@@paulstevens7528
Oh bull chips ! 🍟
That Red Car 🚘 did that on purpose ! 💯%
@@WhiteTriForce Try driving through that intersection. I drive within sight of it on a regular basis and have been through that exact spot enough times that I couldn't even guess at the total. Those two lanes make a shift to the right at that exact spot. The red car was following the lines painted on the road. The driver of the car in the right lane wasn't paying attention and kept driving straight until they were crowding the red car. If the motorcycle had not been there and the two cars had hit each other, this video would be enough evidence for the police to put all of the blame for the collision on the driver of the car in the right lane, because the car in the right lane failed to stay in its own lane.
@@paulstevens7528
I just asked a question. Thanks for your interpretation
@@paulstevens7528
Okay WTF. Relax.
I can't stand the stickers that say "motorcyclist are dying to be seen."
Only old ass dudes and chicks act appropriately on motorcycles. The rest act like idiots.
So, just like car drivers.
I can't stand to hear, "look twice save a life" then here comes IDIOTS like this doing STUPID stuff. Putting their life/limb in jeopardy as well as others life AND mind set. The old school riders CRUISE, its the newer riders that act entitled and do STUPID things
Courts have determined that it's legal to weave within your lane.
This looks the red car wanted to hit him look at the tires. He moved faster to the right lane even though there was a car next to it. Red wanted to hit that motorcycle and motorcycle shouldn’t be speeding with dumb drivers.
Lane splitting should be illegal nationally.
Other than California which seems to be the first state to allow it in the US, I think (though I don't remember reading anything about it recently) that there are only two or three states that allow anything similar to it, with at least one of those states only allowing it when stopped at intersections.
It should be legal to split lanes on a 250cc or higher air cooled motorcycle in the desert especially with the helmet law.
Escaping should never be illegal but what people are escaping from should be , cough* guns
@@YamahaMt0 According to the Tennessee Department of Safety (in a report they released in January of this year) over 10% of the state population has a currently valid permit to carry a handgun, even though state law no longer requires a permit in order to legally carry a handgun. Are you claiming the guy on the motorcycle was running from someone with a gun? If so, he was likely also running toward someone who had a gun. Why didn't he hang around for the cops?
@@paulstevens7528 cars are a WEAPON, IF you don't understand that GET OFF THE ROAD.
To tell me I can't escape from a position I'll get CRUSHED IS STUPID
I'm not a big fan of lane splitters. I'm also not a big fan of drivers that intentionally crash into other vehicles to assert their right of way. I think the real story here is that red car boy had a little road rage meltdown over a dirty pass and decided to give a**hole biker a little death tap. Assault with a motor vehicle is becoming more commonplace too. A real journalist would have caught that detail. Just sayin'.
The red car was following the white lines that are painted on the road to show the boundaries of the lanes. Both lanes shift to the right at that point, to allow space for the left turn lanes at the intersection in front of them.
The driver of the red car definitely noticed the motorcycle accelerating from behind, and jogged right to close the gap, in an attempt to force the biker to slow down. Biker wasn't having it and shot the gap anyway.
Both did show poor judgement. But if the motorcyclist had been driving in a safe and respectful manner, nothing would have been started in the first place.
@@docwatson1134 No, look at the white lines on the road. I have driven through that intersection plenty of times, and both lanes shift to the right to make room for the left turn lanes that start at that point.
@@docwatson1134"the motorcyclist had been driving in a safe and respectful manner"? Is that what you call an illegal maneuver by splitting lanes and driving between two moving vehicles?
As stated, lane splitting is illegal. I doubt I would do it even if it was legal. The person on the bike was in the wrong for doing it, but. It almost looks like the driver in car saw him coming and swerved toward him.
One of the lanes was coming to an end
@@Ferien7 No, both lanes shift to the right, to make room for the two left turn lanes at the intersection they were approaching. The right lane ends, but not until after you pass through the intersection they were approaching - straight, right turn, or left turn, the right lane ends after you pass through the intersection that was still in front of them.
@@paulstevens7528 even so, it still disproves the idea that the cars were swerving to cut off the motorcyclist
@@Ferien7 Yep, they were following the lines that are painted on the road, though the lines appear to need to be repainted.
Or just swerved, eating or smoking or yelling at a kid LoL they were in their lane. Stay between the lines, the lines are our friends LoL
The red car driver tried to squeeze him out on purpose. I dont care if you dont like how someone drives. You are not a police officer and you have no right to try an injure someone
Try looking at the lines painted on the road. The lines that the driver of the red car was following. The driver in the right lane wasn't paying as much attention to the lines as he should have been, and he crowded the red car when both lanes shifted to the right.
😲
that red car CUT him off
How did it cut him off if the red car was already in front of him and the other car as well
Look again. the left and right lanes shift to the right at that spot, to make room for the left turn lane that starts there. The red car was in the left lane. The car in the right lane was the one who crowded the line between the two lanes. Determining whether or not the car in the right lane got too close to the line between the lanes, would require that the camera be positioned more to the left. Either way, the guy on the motorcycle would be the one getting the ticket, if a cop had been there and saw what happened. The car in the right lane probably wouldn't even get a warning from the cop, because there was no contact between their car and the red car, which were the only two vehicles that were legally supposed to be in that space at that moment.
@@paulstevens7528 The red car would have collided with the other car if your logic stands. the red car started hogging the lane area as the motorist approached. im not condoning the biker but splitting lanes would be safe to do if other car drivers did NOT TRY AND KILL people with rage.
@@loligagger85no, 1:01
the red car was clearly well within its own lane. The only perpetrator there was the motorcyclist
@@Ferien7 Troll harder and get glasses, you have never been on a motorcycle
The real issue is the red car purposefully moved to block the biker from splitting the lane. Yes lane splitting is illegal and stupid to do but in this case the driver of the red car is more at fault then the illegal action of the biker.
Both lanes shift to the right at that point, to make room for the two left turn lanes that start for the next intersection. It only looks like the red car swerved to the right, because the car in the right lane kept going straight for a little bit past the point that he was supposed to also move to the right. After the motorcycle gets past them, you can see the white lines indicating where both lanes straighten back up after the shift to the right. The red car did exactly what they were required to do by law at that intersection. The car in the right lane probably wasn't paying as much attention to the lines marking the lanes as they should have been. The guy on the motorcycle was ignoring traffic laws. So, if you want to spread blame around, the guy on the motorcycle caused the incident, while the driver of the car in the right lane gave a small contribution toward moving this from a blatant (and dangerous for the guy on the motorcycle) violation of state traffic laws, to a collision, while the driver of the red car is completely blameless.
That area has a history of "the need for speed" resulting in motorcyclists causing their own death, even when no cars are involved. If you look at the curving overpasses at the intersection ahead of them, one of them has a straight stretch of about half a mile before the curve starts, and "the need for speed" has resulted in hitting the outside wall of the curve and launching themselves over the wall to fall to the ground below. With that level of stupidity on display, trying to blame a driver for this incident (particularly when the driver was following the white lines marking his lane), isn't going to win any sympathy from us locals.
@@paulstevens7528 I agree and I do not lane split nor do I ever tell anyone to do that. After reading your comment, you are correct on the red car but lets say the biker went down, the cops were called and an investigation was done. There would be 2 people at fault. The biker and the blue car. The blue car did not maintain its lane resulting in the crash to occur, the biker would also be cited for illegal riding. The moral of the story is if you care about your life and you choose to ride a motorcycle, follow the laws and remember it isn't the fall that hurts it is the sudden stop that kills.
Notice how the red car must have spotted the motorcycle, and moved right to cut him off. While I do not believe you should lane split unless traffic is stopped, the red car should be charged with assault.
Notice how the car in the right lane continued going straight, even though both lanes shift to the right at that point. You can see the white lines painted on the road more clearly after the motorcycle is past the two cars.
@@paulstevens7528 The right car was probably a bit startled by the bike, but the red car comes right to the white line, even though the road is curving right.
@@CBX-en9lc If you look at the still frame at 0:44 in the video, the red car is running parallel to the dashed white line marking the boundary between the lanes, while the car in the right lane is still angled toward the white line and the red car. If the motorcycle hadn't been there, the car in the right lane might have crossed the line and sideswiped the red car, and the video would have made it clear to police that the driver of the car in the right lane was completely at fault.
And thats how they ALL ride....then their families are pissed and hurt and sue when the idiots get run over.....because other drivers are the problem right....??
A man with a gun vs unarmed man, who do you think is at fault.
My question is why does the USA allow big engines/weapons but have the strictest laws on escaping? Hmm almost like they don't want victims getting away 😢
Lane splitting should be illegal everywhere. I have no respect for crotch rockets at all. Started on dirt bikes at 8, moved to honda then to harley. I give room and respect to normal bikers as they want to be safe and go home. Try to lane split me and see how fast i close that gap, done so many times.
So. You're going to purposely try to murder them if they lane split?
@@user-zu5do6ri6r No point in even attempting something like murdering a motorcyclist near that intersection, since they seem to have a habit of killing themselves. If you look at the curving overpasses at the intersection they were approaching, the one on the far right starts about three quarters of a mile to the right of the camera's view. It runs straight for about half a mile, with two lanes, then makes a slight turn to the left, before making the curving right turn above that intersection in front of the cars. At the same point that the curve to the right starts, the two lanes merge into a single lane.
When a motorcyclist starts that half mile straight stretch, if he doesn't see a cop in front of him or behind him, he knows that the police can't touch him until he gets to the other end of the overpass. If you haven't been through there before, it can be a little difficult to judge how tight that curve is before you hit it. There have been incidents of motorcyclists hitting that curve too fast, after building up speed on the half mile straight section, hitting the wall of the overpass on the outside of the curve, then launching themselves off the overpass to the ground below.
It's a really stupid area to ignore the traffic laws.