Watch for motorcycles. But if you're not going to, at least use your damn blinkers.

[Thor_MN]

70. I have been in an accident with a motorcycle. And first on the scene of a motorcycle accident.

I was driving my pickup truck. He was riding his motorcycle and wearing a leather hat instead of a helmet. He was not injured (much).

I always give motorcycles extra room. Early spring is the worst time, IMO, for motorcycle accidents. Being cooped up all winter, the warm weather seems to make the riders want to go fast. The accident I drove up to occurred on the first warm day of spring, two kids on crotch rockets zipped around me like I was idling and turned right at the T intersection ahead, leaning their bikes way over to handle the speed they were carrying on city streets. One of them noticed that both lanes were occupied by vehicles turn left and right. The other didn't and laid his bike down to avoid hitting a construction vehicle. Some road rash, back pain and a messed up bike due to the first warm day, youthful indiscretion and a bike more powerful than his experience.

The accident that I was involved in, I was stopped at a light. The guy ran into the back of my Ford Ranger. He didn't have a license (DWI), no insurance, and was drunk.

There are some good motorcycle drivers out there that drive with the traffic, don't change lanes 10 times every half mile, don't try to go as fast as possible. And there are some idiots. I've picked two of them up off the ground and waited with them while the ambulance (or police) get there to haul them away.