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On the Scene

This section describes the On the Scene articles from previous issues. If you would like to order the magazine in which an article appeared, please fill out the subscription form by checking the "Back Issue" box and indicating the appropriate month.

On the Scene is provided by the California Highway Patrol and the Washington State Patrol to make motorcyclists more aware of the dangers involved in the exciting and satisfying sport of motorcycling. There are those who learn from the mistakes of others, and then there are the others. Read On the Scene and learn!

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September 2010—California Construction Zone Danger

On a cool spring morning, a rider was traveling on a major freeway through a suburb of Los Angeles at the beginning of the morning commute. Traffic was light and weather conditions were good. The freeway at this location is the westbound portion of an east/west freeway and is divided from the eastbound portion by a concrete center divider. To the right of the center divider is a carpool lane, a nine-foot-wide emergency lane, four lanes of traffic, and a narrow right shoulder. This portion of the freeway was under repair (signs were posted warning of the construction) and the pavement was uneven between the carpool lane and the emergency lane…

August 2010—Washington Drunk Driver Slams into Rider

The later hours of a beautiful, warm July evening found this 28-year-old-male riding on the freeway with his two friends. The three men were traveling to a residence after spending the evening riding in the city. The freeway in this area has three eastbound and three westbound lanes that are divided by a cement barrier. The posted speed limit is 60 mph, the traffic was light, and the roadway was bare and dry…

July 2010—California Slow Down While Lanesplitting

On a clear, warm Friday afternoon, a rider was traveling through one of the most congested freeways in town on his Honda RVT100R. It was just before the afternoon rush hour and speeds had already begun to diminish. The roadway on this section of freeway is north-south and consists of five lanes of travel in each direction. It is divided by a concrete center divider and a narrow left shoulder…

June 2010—Washington Good Luck and Good Choices

A male rider with ten years of riding experience took advantage of a day of sunshine. He was heading south on a two-lane rural highway with a posted speed limit of 55 mph. On the east side of the roadway is a small shoulder and then a drop off into different depth canyons. On the west side of the roadway is a shoulder, a shallow ditch, and then an embankment that goes up at a fairly steep angle. The roadway was bare and dry, the temperature was in the mid sixties, and traffic was almost nonexistent…

May 2010—California Be Patient—What's A Few More Seconds?

On a cool, winter evening in a suburban community of Los Angeles, a young man was riding his 2004 Suzuki GSX-R1000 through a residential neighborhood. The sky was clear and there were no roadway hazards in the area. The rider approached an intersection that is controlled by overhead street signals. Both roadways consist of two lanes of travel in each direction. There is also a left-turn lane in each direction of travel. Both roadways are divided by concrete medians that are approximately three feet wide and end at the crosswalk. There are no left turn arrows in either direction, so motorists attempting to make a left turn must yield the right-of-way on a green light…

April 2010—Washington Drinking and Riding on Valentine's Day

The early morning hours of February 14 found this 41-year-old male rider at a local tavern celebrating excessively the start of Valentine's Day. The highway near the tavern is two lanes in each direction divided by a two-way left-turn lane. Immediately to the west of the tavern is an intersection controlled by a traffic light…

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