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Head-on motorcycle crash kills rider
* The Age January 8, 2009 - 7:42PM

A man is dead and two people are critically injured after two motorcycles collided head-on on a notorious, windy section of the Maroondah Highway east of Melbourne. The motorcycles collided on a slight bend on the Black Spur at Fernshaw, between Healesville and Narbethong, about 3pm, police said.

A 37-year-old Mooroolbark man died at the scene. His passenger, a 34-year-old Mooroolbark woman, was flown by air ambulance to the Royal Melbourne Hospital with life-threatening injuries. The rider of the other motorbike, a man in his 30s from Ivanhoe, was taken to the Maroondah Hospital in a critical condition.

The narrow, winding road passes over the Black Spur, at the top of the Great Dividing Range, through towering mountain ash forest and lush tree ferns in the Yarra Ranges National Park. The road is popular with motorcyclists but notorious among local emergency services because of a high rate of motorcycle accidents.

Major collisions police are investigating and will prepare a report for the coroner.
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peeps especially Vic members
most of us know/use this road
pls take care out there

hmmm.......very unfortunate news that.....

lets hope there is no 'knee-jerk' reaction to speed limits along the Black.....

Bugga, condolences to the family

sympathy to the families involved........
black spur is notorious for accidents combo of cars, bikes and black ice is not good have to be careful up there!!!!

Gosling1 wrote:hmmm.......very unfortunate news that.....

lets hope there is no 'knee-jerk' reaction to speed limits along the Black.....

Gos, what diff would it make honestly?? The speed limit posted is 80k, how many actually DO 80k? Bugger all I reckon....

Very sad. Condolances to the families of the accident victims.

lets hope the critically injured pull thru in reasonable shape and condolances to the family of the deceased rider.....
ride safe people

Gosling1 wrote:hmmm.......very unfortunate news that.....

lets hope there is no 'knee-jerk' reaction to speed limits along the Black.....

licence and rego checks on chum creek today. never seen them up there before. copper said they were doing the spurs as well.

I guess it doesn't really matter what speed you put up, people go up there to test themselves out frequently. Though it's not always speed, my friend had a stack on his postie bike the other day, just doing a u-turn in a factory, slipping on the painted concrete, is now in hossy, smashed knee and broken leg just below the knee. He wont be on his feet for at least 3 months. So you just never know do you? My prang was low speed too, 3 months off with a smashed hand.

Being an inexperienced rider compared to most of you, those twisties certainly can bring you undone, even for the more experienced.

Be careful all of you up there. We want to see you come down!

Cheers

Lisa

dilligaf wrote:

Gosling1 wrote:hmmm.......very unfortunate news that.....

lets hope there is no 'knee-jerk' reaction to speed limits along the Black.....

licence and rego checks on chum creek today. never seen them up there before. copper said they were doing the spurs as well.

Only a matter of time as blk spur riders look for another option and give chum creek more of a run .The last 3 times i have done that road there has been some bike down I will only do this road during the week now as i dont want to meet up with someone on my side of the road in a panick as they have limited experiance on this road.

The police must have been doing the checks on Chum Ck Rd during the middle of the day - I didn't see them there either at 10:30 this morning or 5:00 this afternoon..

Had a chat to a Paramedic at Healesville, and asked him how many he'd picked up this weekend. He told me that he hadn't picked anyone up, but warned me that the cops where everywhere..

it was around lunch time.

a mate and i hit the reefton this morning at about 9.00 ish very little traffic except those lycra clad clowns
we had a good run with minimal litter on the roadsapparently we missed the unmarked beemer and ford explorer
we were making good time and made our way to the black and headed for thr the launching place road were i decided to give the 9 a drink
as i eased back to too regulation speed advice office plod in heading towards healsville = lucky
we push on and as were approaching launching place a white unmarked dunnydore with an unmarked beemer following
they were certainly about and ready for the unsuspecting
last wednesday did the spurs not a sole .........
pitty they wernt there then...to get the 4wd and the other lunatic than nearly managed to run me into the scrub


mick

another one gone: not a good time of year out there!
January 12, 2009 12:27am
A BERWICK man died when his motorcycle collided with a four-wheel drive east of Melbourne yesterday.
The 44-year-old died at the scene of the crash on Powelltown-Noojee Road, Big Pats Creek, about midday.
Police from the Major Collision Investigation Unit attended the scene, south-east of Warburton.
Police are preparing a report for the coroner.
The death brings this year's road toll to 16, two more than the same time last year.

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