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thatmofo
Tue Nov 25th, 2008, 06:32 PM
A friend call me a little while ago and said it didn't look good. Any details?

KennyFish
Tue Nov 25th, 2008, 06:39 PM
I just saw it on the news it looked like an blue r1 or r6, they said they didnt know the condition of the rider, hopefully he/she are gonna be ok.

thatmofo
Tue Nov 25th, 2008, 07:48 PM
Motorcycle Fatality on Whip Trail and Oro Blanco

Police are still investingating a deadly motorcycle crash that killed 23-year-old Charles Galloway. The site of the accident, on North Carefree East bound from Oro Blanco to Inspiration is closed.
Police say Galloway was speeding when he hit a curb and collided into a light pole around 2 p.m. Tuesday. The force of the crash split the motorcycle in half. Galloway was taken to the hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
Galloway was wearing a helmet at the time of the crash.

http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/35103414.html (http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/35103414.html)

Posted: 6:22 PM Nov 25, 2008
Last Updated: 6:22 PM Nov 25, 2008

Mac020
Tue Nov 25th, 2008, 08:04 PM
Take it easy people! Too much of this stuff going on!

R.I.P. Rider(s)

Pavement and air are colder watch out!

y_merkle
Tue Nov 25th, 2008, 08:51 PM
Too sad. RIP rider.

Ceez
Wed Nov 26th, 2008, 07:55 AM
RIP...its been a rough year.

MetaLord 9
Wed Nov 26th, 2008, 09:24 AM
RIP

watch your cold tires kids, traction is not a given anymore. :(

636chick
Wed Nov 26th, 2008, 10:36 AM
That is so sad right before the holiday's too.

RIP and my thought's and prayers to his family and friends.

SamuraiX
Wed Nov 26th, 2008, 10:46 AM
RIP brother.

MAZIN
Wed Nov 26th, 2008, 06:51 PM
Rip Charles... Stay Safe out there guys.

(( LO LO ))
Wed Nov 26th, 2008, 07:48 PM
I just researched his name on Myspace. Turns out he was a Combat Medic in the Army on Ft. Carson. RIP Soldier.... :(

Mental
Wed Nov 26th, 2008, 08:14 PM
I just researched his name on Myspace. Turns out he was a Combat Medic in the Army on Ft. Carson. RIP Soldier.... :(
Godammit. these are peaple I need alive to keep this country running.

RIP

JohnEffinK
Wed Nov 26th, 2008, 10:36 PM
RIP rider.

Another stat to keep big Army targeting sportbike riders.

John

TMP
Thu Nov 27th, 2008, 04:57 AM
Sad.

R.I.P.

Rocfrog
Fri Nov 28th, 2008, 12:28 PM
deleted......

R.I.P.

Nick

MichaelS
Sun Dec 21st, 2008, 06:30 PM
Okay I would like to add my two cents in on this matter. I am Michael the friend that was ridding with him that day.

I like to say thanks to everyone for the respect ya'll have shown. And also would like to clear up the incorrect details of whats been said.

First, Charles was never in the military, and there is no way to view his page unless you are a friend approved by him.

Second i'd like to say that Rocfrog, your wife's coworker is incorrect about a lot of what shes told you.

That day the feinace was in front of us when he and I came over the hill, he and I both were in the right lane, he behind me, and both of us twenty or thirty feet behind his feinace's car. He then dropped a gear and came around me speeding pass his feinace and cutting acrossed in front of her and hitting the curb. His bike never hit her car. And she stopped right away, being the first to his side. I did come to a skidding stop when almost loosing control of my bike. I againd control and slowly rode by, ridding up to the coldasack, and parked the bike not aware of what I was doing I jumped off and dropped my key, and helmet, and sprinted to his side.

As for his feinace calling (911), someone said they already called. She was on the phone with someone I think it was his family. And she did tell people around him to not touch him, she was right then and will forever be right about that. Anyone who's anyone knows not to touch or move someone that is in that state of injury.

I just wanted to clear everything up and give you all the first person point of view.

Thanks again for the prayers, and thoughts. Just everyone be safe and ride hard.

R.I.P - Charles. Forever missed and forever loved.
And lets all just know that Charles died doing what he loved to do, ride!

Thanks.
~Michael

madvlad
Sun Dec 21st, 2008, 07:27 PM
Dang man, it is crazy how many riders have gone this year..... :(... R.I.P brother

RajunCajun
Sun Dec 21st, 2008, 07:43 PM
R.I.P.-Very sorry, Michael, for you and for his family......

Mental
Sun Dec 21st, 2008, 09:50 PM
Sorry for your loss Michael.

MichaelS
Sun Dec 21st, 2008, 09:57 PM
Thanks everyone, I really appericate it. I'm looking forward to this season of riding so that I can ride for him. Thats what he loved and it's only far to keep riding for him. I was going to give it up, because when this all happened I had only been riding for three days, so needless to say I was thinking I might give it up, but thinking about it, I thought to my self that he wouldn't want me to stop.

So next season is for him.

Thanks again.
~Michael

Mental
Sun Dec 21st, 2008, 10:12 PM
I don't want to sound insensitive, and I am not trying to be, but given that you are new to riding, have you taken the MSF course?

I don't want to sound like anybody's mother, but it would just suck to have this discussion again next year about you.

We'll have this discussion again, and we hate it everytime, so if there is even a small window of oppurtunity to reduce that chance, even a little, I kinda like to take it.

If you get the chance, try a few of the group rides when the weather clears up. We have them for every style and pace. And try a few trackdays. They have them at PPIR, PMI and the new track out East. Its a great way to steepen the learning curve in a very controlled enviroment.

Sorry this is your introduction to the site, but we're glad to have you here. Enjoy the season for your friend and ride safe.

Rocfrog
Mon Dec 22nd, 2008, 10:39 AM
Second i'd like to say that Rocfrog, your wife's coworker is incorrect about a lot of what shes told you.

Thanks.
~Michael

I'm glad that is not the case I was just relaying what I was told. Too often these stories get twisted around and just get ugly. No harm was meant by my post just trying to relay info.

Sorry I was misinformed........

Sorry for your loss, it's always sad to loose a loved one or close friend.

Nick

MichaelS
Mon Dec 22nd, 2008, 06:35 PM
Mental - Thanks for being consurned. I am looking into a class for the basic's that you attend at the Chaple Hill Mall I believe. I will be doing that in Fedruary sometime when the weather changes. And I would love to get together with all the locals and ride. I am the only one out of my friends that had a bike right now and would really like to meet new people and learn from the more stronger riders.

I am still working on getting all the proper ridding gear. So thats a must for me, and I would also really like to look into some of the track ridding courses. I have friends that are stunters but that just not my style. So any advice or info I can gain for anyone I would be all open ears.

Like I said thanks for your consurens and everything.

Rocfrog - It's all good I totally understand that things get twisted, and what not. But when Alicia (feinace) read this she got really hurt that people would think that she wouldn't care about someone she loved. So I am glad that everything is cleared up.

Thanks again to everyone for your kind words and thonghts.

~Michael

gravee1k
Tue Dec 23rd, 2008, 07:01 AM
Michael I would wait til spring when you can put to use what you learn in the BRC. Just my .02 worth... if your military the DOD will pay for the class.

sweetest sin
Wed Dec 24th, 2008, 12:09 AM
I will first introduce myself as Charles fiance... second of all upon hearing about this site and learning the horrible things stated about me on here was pretty devastating as if the lose of my best friend, the one I shared my life with, and was planning a future with wasn't enough for me to deal with.
You tell a good story for not being there Nick. Just as you called it a story. A story this was not, a tragedy yes. To sit there and say I did not care is wrong. I was next to Mike the most distraught person at the sceen. Sounds to me like your wifes coworker was being nothing less than nosey anyways. I am not standing here wanting attention, but to clear up all the very wrong information everyone has felt the need to say.
Just as Mike said, I was the one who was first to be at his side. When I saw him unable to control his bike I immediately slammed on my breaks. As I jumped out of my car rushing over to him yelling baby, baby are you ok... I got no response, so I started fumbling for my phone to call 911, but someone told me they were already on the phone with them. An EMT happened to be driving by and saw it and she started working with him immediately. I had no, and I mean NO business touching him or moving him. I have no medical training nor do I pretend to. But anyone with common sense knows not to touch an injured victim, because you can injure them worse. Also if I didn't care why was I escorted away form him 3 times, finally being pushed down next to a tree, and told to stay there?!
Knowing what I was hearing was not good, a nice lady took me to her house to let me use her phone book to call his mom. Just hoping he would be ok, or that she would at least get to see her son one last time. So as far as the details you have added about my conversations, or who exactly I was contacting was nobody's business. The truth of the matter is that until you are in that situation you don't know how you will handle it, act or what you will say. It's like losing complete control of yourself like you have no idea what really is going on, or why it had to be someone you loved. Not just some random person you hear about on the news. It was real, it was my life, my love, the man that loved my children. Trust me your wifes coworker was so calm and able to analyze the actions played because she didn't have the same love and affection for him that I did!!! She didn't have to see her loved one leave this world in the worst way possible.
As for another piece of incorrect information that you, and the news has felt the need to add about the bike hitting my car... is so untrue. If indeed Little Miss Know It All" was indeed behind us she would know that I was in front of both riders.
As for Mike, come on Nick your on a sports bike web site haha.. which means to me you either own a bike, or incompetently know about them.He had to ride a block up, he couldn't stop on a dime like a car. He would have went over the front of his bike. It was bad enough he was just learning how to ride his bike, and seeing that he almost laid his own bike down. So yeah he couldn't stop any sooner than he did. So your wifes coworker obviously just being one of the many other nosey people out there that day should just shut her mouth, and leave well enough alone.
Lets just hope that something like this doesn't happen to you or any of your loved ones. But if it did how I would like to be there, and watch them frantically try to help the individual instead of letting the medical team do their job. And then come to this very website and post derogatory stuff about them on here. Thanks for adding more stress in my life , one day you will see it's different when it's your loved one.
Also I want to thank everyone else that has come on here with their condolences. Charles is very loved, and missed by all of those that he shared his life with. He was an amazing person, father, and friend. He loved life, and lived it to the fullest.
Nick I also that you have said sorry for your miss stated information, and would like to thank you for that. You should keep in mind when someone is already hurt by the events in their life, if you don't have something positive to say you should keep it to yourself do to their vulnerability. I cared so much about Charles, but you wouldn't know that because you didn't know either of us. I know that, and he knows that because he was watching over me that day, and in the end that is all that matters. He will forever have my heart.

Nick_Ninja
Wed Dec 24th, 2008, 12:19 AM
Merry X-mas. The thing about the MC community is --------- you can't escape it.

Mental
Wed Dec 24th, 2008, 01:02 PM
Sin,

I can appreciate you being upset with us. Please don't take it personally. If the story had unfolded the way we initially heard, you can certainly understand why we'd be upset. Mike corrected us all and we are certainly more comfortable with the story. It still had a tragic ending, but not the way we intially understood.

Certainly your connection to Charles is beyond what would happen to a normal vehicle operator in similar circumstances, and I cannot express my condolences in this 2 dimensional medium, but please understand that we do care.

But, if you would indulge us just a bit. We all ride, and certainly Charles told you of situations with out of control, ignorant or unconcerned drivers ("Cagers" as we call them). A quick search on this board will reveal way too many of these kinds of reports where we lost a rider. Sometimes it was a poor choice on the rider’s part, sometimes it was a bad motorist and sometimes it was a terrible case of being in the wrong place and the wrong time.

These downed riders may be strangers, or acquaintances or close friends, but everyone on this board feels the sting every time. There is a bias in the local news reporting that tends to blame the motorcyclist. A recent report was a driver who was speeding, struck and killed a biker and was released from the scene without as much as a ticket. The news report made a point to mention the rider’s safety gear.

This story has been repeated too many times this year, and with the current panic over fuel supplies and folks who embrace a “greener” lifestyle, we have all noticed a lot more bikes out there, and as we fear, that will translate into a lot more tragedies.

I am grateful beyond expression that you were there and that you were concerned. But my heart breaks you had to be there. If we all had our way, this would have, of course, never happened.

I say all of that to say this. We do care; our heart goes out to you. We hate these things and when we hear of unconcerned motorists, it makes our blood boil. We relate these stories here as a means to educate ourselves, those around us and remind us all that we are all quite vulnerable. You are not an unconcerned motorist, but I am sure you have met them; I am certain that even in the midst of this personal heartbreak, folks have made callous remarks about your Charles and his choice to ride. These are the ones who stab at our very core.

You were not as we originally heard, and again I thank you. The original report was not meant to cast doubt on you personally as a fiancé, a friend or human being. It was simply to remind those of us who choose to ride that there are people out there who see us as a nuisance, and genuinely would not spend a moment to remember that biker is someone's son, daughter, mother, father, husband or wife.

We have all lost friends in this lifestyle, but I cannot imagine what you have to wrestle with everyday. If this discussion in some way added to that pain, please accept my sincerest apologies. We never meant to hurt you, or anyone else. We talk about these unfortunate events to make us better riders, better representatives to the non-riding community and maybe, just maybe, we can avoid one more accident.

I never met Charles, but like everyone else on this silly little motorcycle board, I wish he was still here.

Please accept my heartfelt wishes for some comfort and peace this holiday season.

sweetest sin
Thu Dec 25th, 2008, 12:01 PM
Mental-

I understand the intentions behind this website, and I thank you for your condolances. I also understand that you all are concerned with the other motorist out there, being cold hearted... as it is easy to be cold hearted when it's some you don't know and that is unfortunate. What I would like to say is unfortunately Charles was just learning to ride. Charles talked me into getting him a new '09 Yamaha R6 I was very naieve to bikes for one, and Charles need for speed or he would have unfortunatly would not have gotten me to get one. I have talked to alot of his friends, and they have told me stories of him in cars. Another friend told me about how careful Charles always was on his bike. As he used to want to ride and follow me to our destination, he was always very safe. I never had a doubt in my mind that he would have been unsafe... I can't tell you how many times he told me he couldn't wait for me to get my gear so I could ride with him, but would never let me on because I didn't have it. So right there I thought he knew how important that was, and that he was thinking safety.
I honestly don't know what made that day different than all the rest. Charles was feeling over confident in his riding, and did about three things all at once that he had no practice in. And I know how he thought, so I am pretty sure upon his impact he knew it wasn't going to be good, and would have given anything to take back his showing off. I watched him try to gain control, he was just going to fast. So unfortunately sitting here writing this is bring back horrible memories that I had to see... watching him scared for the stupid choice he made. Alot of times it still seems unreal, like it's just not fair like he didn't mean to make that choice and shouldn't be gone. But the unfortunates of that is that's just not how life works. So the one thing I will say is it wasn't any other motorists fault for Charles accident, just a bad unthought out decission on Charles part. So what I will say is just be careful and keep it safe... it's ok to ride just not push your limits know them and know them well. Also keep in mind when you get on those bikes do remember that you are somebodys son, dausghter, mother, father, friend, spouse, boyfriend, girlfriend... you are something to someone and nobody likes dealing with these things. So just be safe.

PhL0aTeR
Fri Jan 2nd, 2009, 11:07 AM
all BS aside, someone died..... RIP :(

636chick
Fri Jan 2nd, 2009, 11:54 AM
Sin,

I first want to let you know that you and your family are in my thoughts and prayers. I am so sorry for the pain and tragedy that has struck your family.

I would never want you to get the wrong idea about this sight or the people here. We try and discuss and learn from the mistakes and tragedy's that occur out there. We all take the same risk's every time we get on our bikes whether we are riding down the street or going on a hard ride. Wether we are experienced or novice riders. I hope that by the circumstances that occurred and caused the horrible loss to you, can maybe save one other person and family out there from this kind of grief. Then this discussion and thoughts have been for the better. Nothing will ever replace your love and best friend, I wish that I had some magical words for you, but alas none are available to me in the English language. Know that you have a place to come to where people do care and people do understand and we welcome you here.
I welcome you here I have too had my hard times with and accident my husband suffered at the hands of another's callous acts and 3 years later we are still dealing with it, the last surgery being the worst. As I cannot even imagine what you must be feeling or going through, I can kinda feel your pain. I could have lost him this last time and the thought alone sent me to a very bad place and a very hard shock to my system. I may not know you personally or Charles but that still doesn't keep my from feeling your pain in my heart at the loss of what seems like a good person that left us far to early.

Accept my condolences and also a hearty welcome to CSC were you are never alone and never with out kind words from a very close knit community.