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Ruff Ryder multi-crash - I95 Florida


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A tribute ride for a member who died in an auto accident. About 150 on a freeway near Jacksonville. 15 crashed, maybe 6 injured. Apparently merging auto traffic coming onto the freeway tangled with the group. That freeway through Jacksonville is nuts.

http://www.news4jax.com/news/Witness-15-motorcycles-crash-on-I-95/-/475880/17356602/-/rh339v/-/index.html

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The freeway through Jacksonville is difficult even in a car or truck. A crazy layout with a lot of turns, dips and rises with entrances and exits that force a sudden merge or lane change in traffic. It's tricky and a convoy would have to break up while going through in order to survive traffic.

I was forced over enough times that I was hesitant to drive next to a vehicle in the other lane. I wanted to be able to move quickly over. Either direction, since I seem to remember some traffic merging from the left as well. But I did try to stick to the left lane through Jacksonville. There were a lot of surprises on that road, and needed to react quickly.

People that live in Florida learn to fear I-95 in order to survive. There are lots of massive multiple vehicle accidents along that one stretch of freeway.

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I was down there in July for a week. There was alot of road construction going on at that time. I don't know if that had anything to do with this wreck or not, but if you've driven there in the construction traffic you'll understand how messed up it is.

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It's because old blue haired snow birds are awesome at screwing up traffic. Then you throw in a crappy highway setup with 150 people on sportbikes its just asking for trouble. Especially when a lot of the riders in that group think that a group ride is the time to practice stunting.

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There's plenty of videos on the web of Ruff Ryders riding like idiots. I bet that was a deciding factor.

$20 says 12 of the 15 bikes where on 1 wheel at the time... The news story tried to make you feel sorry for the bikers, well I sure as hell don't considering the kind of stupid shit that the rough riders do, although I must admit I do enjoy some of their videos...

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