This is why newbies shouldn't get liter bikes...
Police say neither drugs nor alcohol were involved in the 26-year-old's crash
Friday, August 06, 2004
PATRICK HARRINGTON
SHERWOOD -- A 26-year-old man died late Wednesday after crashing his motorcycle through the front glass of a Circle K store.
The crash probably was caused by the driver's inexperience, and neither alcohol nor drugs played a role, said Detective Sgt. Dwight Onchi, a Sherwood police spokesman. The driver, Bradley J. Guthrie of Tigard, bought the motorcycle three weeks before the accident, Onchi said.
Witnesses said that when the Honda crashed into the building at 15900 S.W. Tualatin-Sherwood Road about 10 p.m., it sounded as though the engine was at full throttle. They estimated the motorcycle was going as fast as 50 mph.
When the motorcycle hit the store, Onchi said, it hurled glass shards through the store with such force that they shattered glass refrigerator doors across the room.
Guthrie remained on the motorcycle as it hurtled through the store and drove him into a wall, Onchi said. "It pretty much demolished everything in its path." Guthrie was pronounced dead at the scene.
The crash occurred after Guthrie and another man on a motorcycle drove from a commercial complex across the street from the store and attempted to turn left onto Tualatin-Sherwood Road, Onchi said. They had just finished eating at KFC, he said.
Guthrie missed the turn and rode through an area under construction, then over a ditch. "The motorcycle jumped that ditch and popped back onto the asphalt," Onchi said. "Why he didn't fall there is beyond us."
The ditch is 4 or 5 feet deep and as wide as 19 feet, Onchi said. "He actually accelerated over it."
People were shopping in the store at the time of the crash, Onchi said. "Fortunately no one was struck by glass shards."
A spokesman for Circle K in Houston did not return a phone message Thursday.
Patrick Harrington: 503-294-5968; [email protected]
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Motorcycle hurtles into store; man dies
Police say neither drugs nor alcohol were involved in the 26-year-old's crash
Friday, August 06, 2004
PATRICK HARRINGTON
SHERWOOD -- A 26-year-old man died late Wednesday after crashing his motorcycle through the front glass of a Circle K store.
The crash probably was caused by the driver's inexperience, and neither alcohol nor drugs played a role, said Detective Sgt. Dwight Onchi, a Sherwood police spokesman. The driver, Bradley J. Guthrie of Tigard, bought the motorcycle three weeks before the accident, Onchi said.
Witnesses said that when the Honda crashed into the building at 15900 S.W. Tualatin-Sherwood Road about 10 p.m., it sounded as though the engine was at full throttle. They estimated the motorcycle was going as fast as 50 mph.
When the motorcycle hit the store, Onchi said, it hurled glass shards through the store with such force that they shattered glass refrigerator doors across the room.
Guthrie remained on the motorcycle as it hurtled through the store and drove him into a wall, Onchi said. "It pretty much demolished everything in its path." Guthrie was pronounced dead at the scene.
The crash occurred after Guthrie and another man on a motorcycle drove from a commercial complex across the street from the store and attempted to turn left onto Tualatin-Sherwood Road, Onchi said. They had just finished eating at KFC, he said.
Guthrie missed the turn and rode through an area under construction, then over a ditch. "The motorcycle jumped that ditch and popped back onto the asphalt," Onchi said. "Why he didn't fall there is beyond us."
The ditch is 4 or 5 feet deep and as wide as 19 feet, Onchi said. "He actually accelerated over it."
People were shopping in the store at the time of the crash, Onchi said. "Fortunately no one was struck by glass shards."
A spokesman for Circle K in Houston did not return a phone message Thursday.
Patrick Harrington: 503-294-5968; [email protected]
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