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Bikesales Staff18 Sept 2012
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Motorcyclist survives horror crash

Caught on camera in the USA, a motorcyclist wearing virtually no protective gear survives as his bike is obliterated

This video was taken by an American rider on a Ducati 848 and uploaded to YouTube by a user called IamTimShady, and shows the rider of an orange Ninja ZX-10R colliding with a trailer.

Two other riders slow down and avoid hitting the trailer, but it appears as though the ZX-10R tries to slip between the other two riders and ends up clipping the trailer of a car, with catastrophic results.

According to reports, the video was filmed by a guy who tagged onto a group of riders in South Carolina, and as the video shows, there's not much left of the bike after the hit.

Unbelievably, the rider who crashed had virtually no protective gear on except for his helmet and was airlifted to hospital, but as IamTimShady explains, the rider survived with only a couple of broken bones.

"A motorcyclist is lucky to be alive after he crashed into the back of a trailer on the road in South Carolina. The rider had to be airlifted to the hospital and suffered a broken arm and leg."

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