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Motorcycle Deaths

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Motorcycle Deaths: Two riders felt need for speed, friend says

Two young Broken Arrow motorcyclists died on U.S. 169 five days apart.

Speed was part of the motorcycle experience for two young men who were killed in high-speed crashes on the same Tulsa highway within five days of each other, a friend and fellow rider said.

"It's not about if you go fast; it's when," Greg Honeycutt said Tuesday. "Everybody told us the same thing (about the dangers of speeding), but it was a thrill."

Police said both Brandon White, 25, and Devin Seigal, 21, both of Broken Arrow, were riding at speeds topping 100 mph when their motorcycles slammed into the backs of other vehicles on U.S. 169.

Witnesses estimated that White was riding his 2003 Kawasaki in excess of 120 mph about 1 a.m. April 17, according to police.

As White attempted to change lanes, he plowed into the back of a tractor-trailer rig in the southbound lanes of U.S. 169 between 81st and 91st streets, police said.

Seigal was riding a 2004 Honda south on U.S. 169 about 4 a.m. Sunday. Witnesses reported that the cycle was traveling in excess of 100 mph, according to a police report.

The motorcycle struck the back of a southbound pickup just north of 71st Street, according to the report.

Neither the truck driver nor the pickup driver was injured, police said.

Honeycutt said motorcyclists like to ride fast "because you get a great feeling from it. It's like going to the Grand Canyon and seeing something no one else has seen."

He acknowledged, however, that "10 seconds of a great feeling can waste the rest of your life."

The two deaths are a testament to the rule that as speed increases, a rider's ability to survive a motorcycle crash decreases, Police Officer Craig Murray said.

"Speed kills, unfortunately," Murray said. "You can be in the most protected vehicle in the world, and your body is still going to take trauma (in a wreck).

"When you're on a motorcycle speeding, even with a helmet and leather on, that's not going to mean a hill of beans to you."

Both White and Seigal were wearing helmets.

In 2006, eight of the 38 fatal crashes that Tulsa police officers investigated involved motorcycles, Murray said. Of those eight, seven involved excessive speed on the motorcyclists' part, he said.

Seigal loved motorcycles and bought the Honda over the objections of his family, said his grandmother Nema Freeman.

"I didn't want him to have it," Freeman said. "I was always worried that every time he goes off on it something bad was going to happen. He said 'Granny, don't cry. Nothing's going to happen to me.' "

Seigal rode his motorcycle in White's funeral procession Friday, but something happened during the ride that unnerved him, Freeman said.

"He said, 'I kind of got scared. One of the guys riding a motorcycle in front of me had an accident on the way to the cemetery,' " she said.

Freeman said she again expressed her discomfort to Seigal about his riding a motorcycle but that he left again on the cycle Saturday night.

The next morning, police were at her door to tell her of Seigal's death.

"All of these kids were so close," Freeman said. "Two boys within a week is bad. No one wants to lose two precious boys like these were."

Honeycutt said young people take their motorcycles to the limit on highways because their parents won't allow them do it anywhere else.

Rather than try to stop them from riding, parents should allow them to go to racetracks and other controlled environments where professionals can teach the riders the do's and don'ts of riding and where safety elements for high speed are in place, he said.

"It's not that you can't get hurt racing," Honeycutt said. "People lay their bikes over (on racetracks) every day. But it's when you hit medians and other cars and trees -- that's when you don't survive.

"Parents get scared about motorcycles and try to avoid it," he said, but "anything kids like, they're going to do it. If Mom and Dad aren't going to let you go to a racetrack, where are you going to do it?"

Honeycutt said he no longer rides motorcycles but that he wouldn't swear off ever riding them again.

During the last year, he said, he matured and started telling other riders to be more careful and slow down while on the highways.

"Everybody's been asking for it (an accident) for a long time," Honeycutt said. "We just got away with it for a long time. We all escaped death several times."

Seigal's funeral is scheduled for 1 p.m. Wednesday at Hayhurst Funeral Home in Broken Arrow.

Submitted on 04/25/2007

Submitted by: Wes Wegley
Reference: Tulsa World 4/25/2007

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>> Moderator Scores <<

Bruce said:
Maybe Toss: Too Common
Thanks for sending this in, Wes. Unfortunately it sounds to me like all-to-typcal cases of young kids and speed.

James said:
Definitely Toss: Too Common
Thanks for sending this in, Wes! Needless to say, I see plenty of young speed demons EVERY DAY driving in NYC, and very occasionally have the dubious privelidge of witnessing the aftermath of the inevitable. When such attitudes about speed persist, it is a question of when, not if, the rider will eventually die. Alas, WAY too common for a DA but plenty stupid nonetheless!

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