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Kit Sullivan
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The annual ABATE-sponsored Merritt Island Motorcycle Toy Run from Merritt Island to Melbourne was today.
My daughter Shelby rode with me in this year's event.
Unfortunately, there was a terrible accident: making the left turn from 520 onto US-1, The guy directly in front of us seemed to be taking the turn a little too fast, ran wide...lost control and went up on the curb. He plowed into a crowd of about 15 spectators standing there, directly running over a woman and her infant before careening into the rest of the crowd. He layed it down about 15 yards into the grass.
The rider was frantic and ran over after getting up from the bike, ,the crowd was clearly startled and we stopped right at the curb to see if we could assist. The cops swarmed up instanly and shoed us on out of the way, so we continued on with the rest of the bikers.
I have not seen anything on the local news as of yet...I sure hope the lady and her baby were not seriously hurt. (although it sure looked like they were...lots of blood on the woman).
Put a damper on the day for us, and obviously for the victims.
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My daughter Shelby rode with me in this year's event.
Unfortunately, there was a terrible accident: making the left turn from 520 onto US-1, The guy directly in front of us seemed to be taking the turn a little too fast, ran wide...lost control and went up on the curb. He plowed into a crowd of about 15 spectators standing there, directly running over a woman and her infant before careening into the rest of the crowd. He layed it down about 15 yards into the grass.
The rider was frantic and ran over after getting up from the bike, ,the crowd was clearly startled and we stopped right at the curb to see if we could assist. The cops swarmed up instanly and shoed us on out of the way, so we continued on with the rest of the bikers.
I have not seen anything on the local news as of yet...I sure hope the lady and her baby were not seriously hurt. (although it sure looked like they were...lots of blood on the woman).
Put a damper on the day for us, and obviously for the victims.
![IMAG1107.jpg IMAG1107.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/7173mustangs/data/attachments/22/22348-f3e7c136169c6fdb9f5ea53fb032fc89.jpg)