Horror Gold Coast M1 motorbike crash witness reveals what happened in seconds before impact
A MAN in his 30s is hanging on to life two days after a horror crash on the M1 which cost him a leg. Now, a witness on the scene has revealed what happened in the seconds before the devastating crash.
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A MAN who stopped to help after a horror crash that left a motorcyclist fighting for his life has spoken about the shocking scene that confronted him.
Dave Cramer had only just entered the M1 motorway at the southbound Bermuda St exit on Wednesday evening when he heard a “loud bang” behind him.
MOMENT OUT-OF-CONTROL BIKE CRASHES
The Palm Beach resident said he was probably three cars in front of the crash when he saw a black Harley Davidson motorbike — minus its rider — overtake him on the left hand side, before crashing into a fence.
Mr Cramer said he looked back in his rear view mirror to see the injured rider lying on the ground on the left side of the road and pulled over to help.
“I was probably the first to go up to him, I tried his pulse,” Mr Cramer said.
“He was in a bad way. He had nothing at first, he looked gone ... then I could feel something after about five seconds.”
Another witness called an ambulance while a woman, believed to be a trauma nurse, asked for a tourniquet, he said.
“(The woman) said, ‘I need a tourniquet for his leg,’ so I pulled the belt off my pants and slid it under his leg,” he said.
Mr Cramer said the man’s foot had been severed in the incident and he had “no leg from the knee down.”
Another person administered CPR before paramedics arrived, transporting the bike rider to Gold Coast University Hospital where he remains in a critical condition.
Witness Cody Richardson, 30, said he could see the man’s severed foot and leg as he drove past the accident.
“You could see his tendons, it was rancid,” he said.
“I had just heard a motorbike coming, it was so quick. In my head I thought it was ridiculous, that’s way too fast and as I was thinking that I heard a bit of a bang.”
Tallebudgera local Quinton Bray, 39, told the Gold Coast Bulletin he and his partner had been waiting in the traffic when the motorbike drove past “at speed.”
“It was hard to say how fast,” Mr Bray said.
“He waved back at the traffic as if to say, you’re all stuck in traffic and I’m going down the side here. He disappeared into traffic and about 300 metres down the road we passed him on the ground. He was missing a leg and motionless, his bike tangled up in the fence on the left hand side.”
Mr Bray said they were lucky their young daughter, who was also in the car at the time, didn’t see the incident.
“It was a bit of a shock,” he said.
“I’m a bike rider myself and I don’t leave home without a helmet, it was a bit erratic, thongs and no helmet.”
A number of witnesses claimed to have seen the bike rider swerving in between traffic and ignoring red lights as far north as Acacia Ridge and on the Logan Motorway at high speeds of up to 160km.
Another witness, Jillian Hodgkinson, wrote on social media: “This guy rode past me at Helensvale! He was swerving over the (two) outside lanes. He even pulled his bag around to his front and grabbed a can of something, drinking it and threw it, nearly hitting a car behind him.”
A police spokesman said they had been made aware of a man driving on the M1 without protective gear and had been keeping an eye out for him before the incident.
Investigations are continuing.
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