Two men on motorcycles died in two separate fatal accidents in Maine yesterday.
One of the crashes occurred in Bridgton, ME in which a man on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle was standing on the seat of the Harley and waiving with one hand while holding the motorcycle handlebar with the other.
The man lost control of the motorcycle, fell off and died. He wasn’t wearing a helmet.
A second biker from his party (a motorcycle group of four), trying to avoid hitting him, lost control of her own bike, and also crashed.
The woman, Marjorie Loonie, 45, of Melrose, Massachusetts, was seriously injured in the crash, and was airlifted by a medical helicopter to a hospital. Her condition was still being evaluated yesterday.
Loonie was not wearing a helmet, either. In fact, none of the four motorcyclists in the group was wearing one.
In the second accident, the casualty victim was wearing a helmet, but it got knocked off his head in the crash when his motorcycle, a blue Yamaha, slammed into a Subaru sedan driven by an eldrely woman.
The woman was pulling out of a KFC restaurant parking lot onto Lisbon Street in Lewiston, ME, and either she didn’t see the biker, or he was speeding and failed to see her. The circumstances of the crash are yet to be determined.
In any case, the biker suffered the worst fate. He died at the scene.
The woman was injured and was taken to a hospital.
The two accidents happened on the same day in Maine, less than a few hours apart. In both accidents, the male bikers were killed, and the injured vicitms were female.
