I'm a journalist (and rider), preparing a column for The Globe and Mail about motorcycle safety. Can anyone provide any details of the fatal accident that happened near Bancroft on Aug. 3? The investigation is still going on, so police aren't saying anything, but it involved three bikes and a car on Hwy. 28, and two riders were killed.
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Info about August 3 crash near Bancroft?
- Thread starter MarkR
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I don't think anyone here has inside information. There were two crashes near bancroft in close proximity (Aug 3 and Aug 7). Good luck. I appreciate you trying to shine light on the situation.
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Bancroft hwy 28 and paudash school road rip x 2
Condolences to the riders family and friends. Three bikes and a cage in crash. Two riders didn't make it. https://www.kawartha411.ca/2024/08/06/two-motorcycle-drivers-killed-in-crash-on-highway-28/
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Bancroft hwy 28 and otter lake road
Best wishes in recovery or condolences as appropriate. I can't find the status of the riders. Truck, two cages and two mcs in crash. Two dead, two airlifted, two ambulance with life threatening injuries. One cage apparently drove across highway in front of truck and got t-boned which started...
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Good to know. But I do wish that these types of reports would be available free of charge, and easily available (obviously remove names / identifiers).
I would like to read those types of reports to gain insight into the causes / findings of the crash to hopefully prevent the same in the future.
it's probably printed, so they're charging for supplies etc.
That's fine. But an online version doesn't require that, and can easily be implemented.
No government likes data easily accessible. That shines the light on "speed" being the factor in almost every crash when that is a stretch at best in many. For instance if you are 5 km/h over and someone runs a red light doing the speed limit and hits you, crash stats show speed was a factor. No it bleeping wasnt. Running a red light was the only relevant factor but speeding tickets raise a lot of money.
Touché…
pretty much.
most like to keep things trudging along as slow as people will put up with it, creates excellent job security.
Sukiyaki
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We have those things in whitewater paddling and climbing (rock, ice, mountaineering). I believe the aviation community does so as well. Annual compilation and publishing of fatal incidents. They (if I remember correctly) are privately put together by associations and/or publications and done for professional stakeholders and any interested public, so that hopefully we all learn something about how not bodge things up next time they go sideways, and thus reduce the incident rate.
Motorcycling is a natural fit. Maybe some EMS org or otherwise is doing something, somewhere…?
FYI
Kawartha Now Community is reporting on Highway 28 safety issues. Apparently local mayors are coming together to lobby the Provincial government about safety / accident concerns and changes to 28 to address this.
North Kawartha mayor proposes ‘coalition of Highway 28 mayors’ to lobby Ontario government to address highway safety issues | kawarthaNOW
By Megan Gallant. Carolyn Amyotte is also requesting the MTO deal with traffic back-ups and delays from Eels Creek bridge reconstruction on the provincial highway.
kawarthanow.com
They might have info, or be able to plug you into someone who does.
If your bike wasn't in your locked impeneterable garage, the fact it was on the road makes it a factor.
I see these things daily, not fatal, but crazy stuff, sometimes up to and more than ten incidents a day. believe me you. some of the stuff would make your head spin
AFJ
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Attached is the only detailed public report that I am aware of that examined in detail all the individual police reports from each fatal motorcycle accident that occurred over a year or more and attempted to determine common factors and draw conclusions. It was funded by a $4,000 grant from a provincial road safety fund and done by a small committee of concerned motorcyclists.
AFJ
AFJ
I was there and it was awful.
A couple weekends ago when I was up in Calabogie, I met a tow truck driver up there who was helping someone. We got to talking and he mntioned her was the tow operator who arrived on scene and had a fair bit of details. He was also hte same tow operator who arrived at the other incident up there and many other prior. I know he was a tow operator for CAA too. Perhaps find out who the tow company is and see if you can speak to their staff.
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