Witness to accident

I happened to be in the right place at the wrong time. I was driving home from work, southbound on Rt. 2 in Severna Park, Md, when I was slowing down for the usual red light at the end of the shopping center. There is a pull through of the median right where I was stopping, and cars were stopped there waiting to turn left into the Old Navy/Giant Food shopping area.

What happened next was a tan Toyota sedan pulled out into the road, intending to go to the shopping center. What she didn't see after the last car went past in the group, was the one lone motorcyclist riding up the road at about 45 mph. He was riding a blue and white Suzuki off road/on road model. The motorcyclist took evasive action and braked, but plowed into the right quarter panel of the young lady's car. He flew over the back of her car, his motorcycle went down, having bounced off the car at a different angle than he took off the bike. He was wearing a helmet, and gloves, but no other safety equipment. The motorcyclist came to a rest about 35 feet from his bike.

I stopped, turned on my hazard lights, and went to render assistance. The Anne Arundel County Police were there even before anyone could call 911. I think one of the officers was driving north on rt. 2 when he saw it happen. Three police cars were there in a matter of 3 minutes. One of them was unmarked. The fire department was next, when one driver stopped, jumped out of his car, and put on his yellow fire department vest. The rest of the fire and rescue crew got there after about 5 minutes.

The motorcycle driver had got up and moved to the median, where he was made to lie back down. Several of us stood around him, shading him, in case he went into shock. We wouldn't let him take off his helmet, either.

The police officer took several of our ID's and statements. What several eye-witnesses saw (myself included) was that the car driver pulled out in front of the motorcyclist, leaving him nowhere to go, and no time to stop. And he did try to stop, because I saw his front end dip down before he impacted the car.

The motorcyclist seemed to be ok, but was pretty scraped up. He may have broken something, but was not feeling any pain really probably due to the adrenaline. The EMTs were going to transport him to the local hospital to be checked out, treated and whatever else needs to happen.

His motorcycle was totaled.

So that was a very exciting few minutes there.

That makes 2 accidents I've witnessed in about 2 miles of that section of Rt. 2. Both were on nice sunny days, and both seemed unreal as they happened in front of (or beside) me.

Wow.