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Zero-emission race ends in controversy

Proof that silence isn't always golden

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Posted: 17 November 2010
by Visordown News

Photograph by: Nick Procaylo, PNG

ZERO EMISSION motorcycles have come under fire in Vancouver, Canada, following a collision between an electric motorcycle and a cyclist during an international race to promote battery-powered vehicles.

The speed and lack of noise of the streamline-shaped Zero-Tracer immediately prior to the accident is at the centre of the controversy; onlookers say the sleek two-wheeler was "going really fast" through a residential area just before the collision took place.

Dawna Werbeski, 43, who lives in the neighbourhood, said: "We thought, 'Holy crap they are going really fast down that residential street.' There were cars parked along the side. Someone could have walked out on the street and not heard that vehicle -- not like you would have heard a regular motorcycle."

The 50-year-old cyclist suffered several rib fractures when he was hit by the 750-kilogram motorcycle.

Via The Vancouver Sun

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Busabuster
An international race, that passes in a residential area without any kind of warning or control?? Blame the organisation. It may be anoying but some times loud pipes really save lives.

Posted: 17/11/2010 at 11:18


wusu
here!! here!! to LOUD pipes!!!!!! ...... sorry about the broken ribs .. been there done that...

Posted: 17/11/2010 at 12:20


me you
What happened to looking before you cross a street ?

Posted: 17/11/2010 at 12:50


iiMarcus
its like the electric buses in Newcastle - so many near misses

Posted: 17/11/2010 at 12:52


Thomp
What kind of race is allowed down residential streets, the organisers are utter muppets, the Canadians willl happily ban anything electrical for this, Quebec is crazy, as for -
"We thought, 'Holy crap they are going really fast down that residential street.' There were cars parked along the side. Someone could have walked out on the street and not heard that vehicle -- not like you would have heard a regular motorcycle."
 Surely people should look anyway, cyclists can easily achieve 20mph, sadly the guy on the bike should have known better (that is if it was his fault as it may not have been due too anything he did), but the race shouldn't have taken place on a resdiential street. Get well soon cyclist.

Posted: 17/11/2010 at 15:00


crapcati1098

How can you have a race on open roads ? Who organises this ? So what happens now the cyclist sues somebody for millions and that is the end of that ? Something else killed of by stupidity .


Posted: 18/11/2010 at 10:56


d barry

what was a cyclist doing on a racetrack??!!

never let the truth get in the way of a sensational story...

poor unbalanced reporting


Posted: 18/11/2010 at 11:04


erik Dunshee
They dont sue in Canada really... It also seems they dont understand the basics of a "Race" on a open road.  Just a though but was this guy the only one who was ummmm "Racing"?

Posted: 19/11/2010 at 08:36


bare nekid 3
Wasn't a race just a parade. Bleats about 'excess' speed  surfaced looong after the crash. News man who was the EV passenger had no such speed opinions. Fool cyclist who was riding on the sidewalk just drove right into the EV's path.. Suicidaly stupid by any yardstick. But then Cyclists' always hold the moral Hi ground

Posted: 24/11/2010 at 19:13

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