A motorcyclist who being chased by a police car collided with another motorbike in Kobe, and was flung into an electric pole support cable which cut him in half.
According to police, the incident occurred at around 8 a.m. Wednesday on National Route 2 in Tarumi Ward, Sankei Shimbun reported. Police said the motorcyclist was exceeding the speed limit by 33 kilometers per hour when they stopped him. However, when an officer approached the motorcyclist to question him, he took off, running over the officer and breaking his right leg.
After a chase of about seven kilometers, the motorcyclist collided with another motorcycle driven by a woman, 25, who was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
The man was flung into the support cable by the impact of the collision. The upper half of his body flew over a two-meter-high fence and fell onto the tracks of a Sanyo Electric Railway line, causing train delays of about 80 minutes. The lower part of his body landed on the sidewalk.
© Japan Today
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Kobe White Bar Owner
Ouch!
lucabrasi
Typical....
Matthew Harding
I had to laugh out loud at this. So gruesome but quite hilarious in a black humor kind of way. Darwinism at its best here. I am just glad that the police officer and the other woman are going to make it out of this with not big injuries.
MsDelicious
Nice descriptive story. I wonder how long he lived after it happened. Terrible way to go.
Alex Einz
Atleast some idiots get what they deserve, too bad some other people got hurt
YeahRight
A candidate for this year's Darwin Award.
Mike L
I wonder if losing his life was worth it to get away from a speeding ticket?
turbotsat
Til the oxygen in the blood on the brain is used up (because no more blood will be traveling up that way). Says an answer on yahoo answers.
"... could survive anywhere from 2 min - 5 min or so depending on the temperature and your level of relaxation ..."
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20111211152139AAA6DFF
stormcrow
Damn!
Sounds like something right out of a horror film.
Frederic Bastiat
He did a very stupid thing, and paid the price with his life.
smithinjapan
Bet he wasn't thinking that would happen while speeding, or when running from the cops. Hmmmm... maybe there are laws for a reason?
papigiulio
Final Destination Japan? What a freak accident, I thought mythbusters actually debunked this body cut by wire myth?
lomae
Damn... with that guy in Roppongi dying with a pipe through his head and this... I'm done with the news today.
sandiegoluv
Come on, JT. You don't have to be THAT descriptive. Frankly, I know there are a lot of people like myself who would prefer NOT hearing all the gory details. RIP young man. That is a sad way to go.
FizzBit
I was thinking Mad Max.
Glad the idiot didn't kill anyone. As far as the details, keep it up JT.
PhantomAgent
Terrible incident. I feel sorry for anyone who had to witness this.
Thunderbird2
Jeez I'm wincing reading it.... ugh. What a horrible, horrible way to die.
sakanafish
Shez! Bad Karma or Poetic Justice?
Monozuki
Not in a thousand years! Yet this is exactly what has happened. RIP.
Cliffy
Must be going pretty fast.
John Daly
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes...
chisineko
Running from or in any way attempting to evade the police is probably an action not to be recommended. A lesson for impressionable children.
serendipitous
Must have been going like the clappers.
turbotsat
Apparently they tried to bust myth that a ship's mooring line can snap and cut someone in half (person at reddit post says they failed).
Not that a body hitting a cable at the speed of a fleeing motorcyclist could be cut in half.
https://www.reddit.com/r/mythbusters/comments/2cwcmv/is_mythbusters_ever_going_to_fix_this_myth_or/
wontond
Seems very harsh. I don't think someone who speeds and runs from the cops, deserve to die, and a gruesome death at that.
duncanpa
Invention of guillotine and its heavy use during the French Revolution lead to attempts to communicate with severed heads. In particular Lavoisier, the chemist, made arrangements to communicate with his assistant after his decapitation. The assistant apparently counted over 15 consecutive blinks after the head got severed. Unlike with the guillotine, though, the trauma from flying through air, impacts, getting the torso cut in half, is not likely to leave room for a state of consciousness where one could ponder what happened.
Ghost rider
Looks like in Japan more people get killed by police than by organized crime.
oldman_13
Yet another stupid police chase.
STOP the madness!
Yubaru
Right, just let the idiots go and do nothing. Better yet, just cap their arse and be done with it, save everyone the time and trouble.
jonobugs
Chances are he didn't survive, but the story doesn't say if he did or not. I suppose there is a very small chance he survived if he was severed around the legs and someone stopped him from bleeding out. Either way, I have to agree that this person now serves as cautionary tale to other people who want to run for no good reason.
Mirai Hayashi
gruesome!
Yubaru
He didnt....and he wasnt severed around the legs either.
kurisupisu
If police chases continue to result in death then surely police guidelines should be revised. And on any given day there are millions of vehicles exceeding the speed limit!However, it is a fact that the police overly target motorcyclists.In fact, police here will target roads (in the mountains) and wait for their prey! It is unnerving to suddenly be stopped on a mountain plateau in the middle of nowhere! Also,Japanese speed limits have not been adjusted to take into account the capabilities of modern cars.Route 2 in Kobe can easily be driven safely at higher speeds in certain places but the highest posted limit is 50k/hr. If speed limits in Japan are so selectively enforced then it is only a matter of time before we see more deaths!
Lil Pappy
Yeah, poor lady, and policeman, and the poor kids in the school bus, who ended up sitting in my classroom about an hour later! They all got a trip to the councillor. Our kids, mostly lower school, waited in the the ensuing traffic jam staring down at the still uncovered body parts. And JT did not go into as many gory details as what many of them saw. As for police pursuit, they did discontinue the high speed pursuit as soon as they realized how suicidal the motor bike rider was. And quite on his own, he did make a movie style attempt to go down the wrong side of a very busy road. Guess it was what we call a hard lesson for the kids! Maybe....don't run from the cops, drive on the proper side of the road, motorcycles can be dangerous.... a lessons that could last a long time!!
since1981
KARMA
nfijapan
reminds me the ball scene from "Ghost Ship"
turbotsat
They didn't start chasing him until he ran over a cop and broke the cop's leg.
Outsider
Bummer.
CoconutE3
Sounds like a horror movie scene....RIP to victim