Motorcyclist Fatally Crashes off Vegas Overpass
September 3rd, 2008 by R.J.
Yesterday, a Vegas man crashed and fell 50 feet to his death from an overpass above the I-15 freeway.
This has to be one of the weirdest motorcycle story I’ve ever written about. The man, apparently, robbed a convenience store with a gun to steal a bottle of liquor in his helmet and motorcycle jacket. He then hopped on his bike where a chase with Las Vegas Metropolitan Police ensued. He was able to outrun metro, but crashed his bike near Jones and Tropicana. He then took off his jacket and helmet, left it on the side of the road along with his handgun, and resumed running from the cops on his bike.
Police were not chasing him at the time he crashed on the Tropicana overpass of the I-15. His bike impacted a cement retaining wall and flung his helmetless body onto the freeway shoulder below where he was pronounced dead.
I’m not sure if the moral of the story is to not run from the cops; to always wear your helmet; or to not rob convenience stores.
Better go with all three.
- Posted in Bike Accidents
September 4th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
[...] Who Died in Crash Off I-15 Offramp Identified Sep04 4 September 2008, R.J. @ 7:33 pm The man who crashed his motorcycle off an offramp yesterday in Las Vegas has been identified. According to police, the man is 25-year-old Joseph [...]
September 5th, 2008 at 10:31 am
its not that he was stupid for not wearing a helmet and grabbing liquor from the store.there is way more to that than what the news tells you.he wanted it that way and it ended up in tragedy.rip joseph we love you.
September 11th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
Hi some girl,
I don’t really know if you could classify what happened as anything other than stupid.
If there’s more to the story, why don’t you tell us?