how not to wheelie

http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/article/2007/08/07/5356_hpnews.html

Honeymoon escape

LEONIE JOHNSON

07Aug07

IT was an unbelievable escape. Honeymooners Alleha and Grant Carlson
got the shock of their lives yesterday when a speeding motorcycle
doing a wheel-stand plunged through their windscreen, landing in their
laps in suburban Kelso.

Miraculously the Cairns couple escaped with only minor cuts to their
arms and legs after being showered with glass.

The 19-year-old motorbike rider was thrown in the air, landing more
than 30m from the accident site on Ponti Rd about 11am.

He appears to have also had a lucky escape, being listed in a stable
condition in Townsville Hospital last night.

Mr Carlson, a Cairns primary school teacher, said he still wasn't sure
how he and his solicitor wife of one month had escaped from the
wreckage.

"I had just turned out of Peter St and was heading straight down Ponti
Rd when the next thing I know there's a motorcyclist on his back wheel
accelerating at a great rate and it was suddenly in my windscreen," he
said.

"I remember vividly seeing him on that one wheel on the wrong side of
the road and there was nothing I could do.

"The next thing I know there's a motorbike smack bang between my wife
and I.

"We're thankful we're both in one piece and we know someone's looking
after us."

It wasn't how the pair wanted to end their trip.

They were visiting Mr Carlson's parents in Townsville to help out with
his father, who had just returned from Brisbane after a knee
operation.

Police shook their heads in disbelief when they arrived at the
accident scene.

The motorbike had impacted with such force the Daewoo's bonnet
actually held the trail-bike upright.

The bike's front wheel came to rest on the centre console between the
newlyweds.

Mr Carlson's wedding gift to his new wife, personalised plates with
their wedding date and initials, lay crushed on the ground.

Kirwan police Sergeant Mark Burgess said everyone involved had had a
`lucky escape'.

He said police were still investigating to ascertain how the accident
unfolded.

"The Daewoo was coming along the road in an easterly direction at the
same time a motorbike was driving along in a westerly direction," he
said.

"There appears to be a witness who observed both vehicles and
inquiries are continuing into the manner of how the motorcycle and the
Daewoo were being driven.

"When you look at the point of impact, the front wheel of that
motorcycle has almost split the passenger and the driver down the
centre column.

"It's certainly a lucky escape."

Both vehicle drivers were tested for alcohol at the hospital.

Police investigations are continuing.

The Daewoo sedan with motorbike attached:

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What's the bet the idiot doesn't learn either

 

damn right, I believe he went straight out and brought another Daewoo
with the insurance money

mh

 

I agree, he was way off line to start with! quick turn of the hangers
and lean a tad and he was back on course, before the car came into
view.

 

Naah; you generally don't learn until you get her home after the honeymoon!

 

is that learn, or regret?