Was driving home from Work today, I was on the West Seattle bridge when I noticed a motorcyclist behind me (I tend to look around me when driving). He had a passenger and they were kinda close, I noticed him wave his hand or something to the passenger, then they took off weaving between cars. I had to accelerate quickly to keep them from clipping me it seemed like.

Anywho, I sorta just watched them weave between cars, mostly on the lane divider, and as they were hitting the big turn at the end of the bridge, they lost control and I saw them both go flying in the distance (I was still way back). As soon as I saw this I sorta started changing lanes to get there quickly (signaling the whole way!). I got up there right behind a honda, turned on the emergency blinkers, then got out and walking to the nearest person on the ground, The woman who was driving in the honda in front of me got out her phone and was calling 911. I got to the nearest person, who was the driver.

As soon as I got to him I could smell the alcohol, there was a mini-shot laying on the ground near him, he was moaning and screaming in pain, and I immediately put my hands on him to keep him from moving. I just kept telling him not to move and to stay still. I looked around me and could see pieces of the motorcycle on the ground, and the motorcycle in the distance leaning against the highway divider. The passenger was about 15 feet farther up and there were people running to him.

Some guy walked through and tossed things over to one side of the highway then got in his SUV and drove through, I was a bit disturbed by this, but didn’t do anything about it.

A detective popped out of nowhere and sorta did the same as me, and a police officer quickly showed up soon after, the ambulance was coming and we sorta just stayed there and made sure he wasn’t dying. In retrospect it seemed like we were all a bit nervous, I may have been a bit freaked out, but I couldn’t tell. I just made sure he didn’t move himself and stayed still, didn’t want him injuring anything else. There was a good chance he had hurt his back, he was wearing a leather jacket and what looked like flannel pants (the pull-string kind).

It was all a very surreal experience. The medics showed up, and as soon as they walked over I just stepped back and let them do their work. I walked over to the woman from the Honda who after calling 911 had sorta just stood there and talked to her a little bit, she had seen what occured and so we both just chilled for a bit and let the medics do their work. A police officer finally came over to us and talked to the woman. Since I didn’t actually see the crash happen, he didn’t need me and said I could go. They had begun to back everyone up so they could take the Admiral Way exit, so I went over to me car and waited. One guy in the car behind me asked if I wanted some hand sanitizer, and I accepted it, so he kinda emptied half his bottle onto my hands, which was a bit excessive.

Anywho, that’s the event for the day, In retrospect there are a couple things I probably could have done better, but I think I did okay in just making sure he didn’t hurt himself anymore.



And this is a huge spider that had attached itself to my coat as I walked into my room.

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