Request for assistance: Biker possibly down: Moderately urgent

Nasty one this. We have unconfirmed reports that one of my colleagues
was killed in a bike crash over the weekend. The company is trying to
confirm, but it's proving rather hard as he has very few next of kin,
and is a Polish national.

Does anyone have any idea who we could ask given the below data:

We don't know where he may have been. He had a penchant for *long* trips
of a weekend (Cannes for example)
We can't contact any of his family.

FWIW (if anyone saw him / the smash) it was a GoldWing GL1800 *brand
new* in black. He typically wore a dark grey Hein Gericke leather jacket
and black Nolan helmet. Blue jeans, trainer type. He was about 6'6" in
both important directions, slightly ginger of hair with a close cropped
beard.

Any info would be welcomed. chris at systemlabs dot co dot uk

TIA
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Bad form, but it's been confirmed. Arse.

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Erk.

 

Aye, he was. Genuinely nice fellow.

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Was he the inconsiderate bastard that shut the M4 yesterday?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/7077912.stm

 

It seems unlikely as initial reports are he was hit by a car coming
towards him on the wrong side of the road.

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In South Wales that has happened twice in the last few months, on the M4

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/7010503.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7020152.stm

 

In a really, really, _really_ spooky coincidence, I dreamt last night that
I was riding a Wing (but red like Dodger's, and not black), and just as I
said to someone, 'it pulls like a train', a loud crash woke me, and we
looked out of the window to see some **** had crashed into another car in
the street (no injuries).

Weird.

D.

 

Reminds me of Jeremy Clarkson's rant about Plod Lite closing the
motorways for the slightest little shunt.....

"Health & safety...."

 

boggle


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Heh. He'd like that, ty.

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No he was this one:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/7078053.stm

The Wing was his.

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$:

That's a fantastic road. If I could predetermine my death, achieving it by
riding into the scenery there, beats doing it when pissing my pants in a
care home.

 

I'd agree. Sadly it seems that he acheived if my smacking into the bloke
coming the other way on the wrong side of the road. His (my
colleague's) brother was following immediately behind.

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It does rather sound like that and makes me rather hugely angry.

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coffee break?

Ahh, a Pole link, then



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Mebbe the initial word-of-mouth reports were wrong, though...?

This
http://www.north-wales.police.uk/nwpv2/en/yglas/newsDetail.asp?sid=PR295224
seems to say "two bikes only, head on" about as explicitly as they can.

 

I was talking about the BBC coverage specifically. That link from plod
seems to bear out what his brother said.

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I'll stick with his brother's story I think.


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The Goldwing airbag is back to the drawing board then.............

Mark