NJ Motorcycle Officer Loses Leg - Sportbike Addicts

Kennedy · 02-15-2008, 01:22 AM

http://www.officer.com/web/online/To...-Crash/1$40120

No files were charged against the driver.....hmm

NYCSTRIPES · 02-15-2008, 02:44 AM

Unfortunate part of riding a police bike, getting seriously injured is always a possibility. Police stickers and lights don't prevent accidents and riding in inclement weather is part of the job. Sucks to hear that he got hurt so badly.

Hope he can make some kind of recovery and maintain a decent qualiity of life.
Ken

tommymac · 02-15-2008, 02:57 AM

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Originally Posted by NYCSTRIPES

Unfortunate part of riding a police bike, getting seriously injured is always a possibility. Police stickers and lights don't prevent accidents and riding in inclement weather is part of the job. Sucks to hear that he got hurt so badly.

Hope he can make some kind of recovery and maintain a decent qualiity of life.
Ken

If he was lucky (if you could say that) they amputated below the knee so he can better use a prosthetic limb.

Tom

***carl_g*** · 02-15-2008, 08:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Kennedy

No files were charged against the driver.....hmm

That is a bummer..
I don't see why the driver would be charged though.. according to this:
"Bergen County Police Sgt. William Koretsky, 46, had some type of trouble negotiating a hill on Route 9W in Orangetown, N.Y., when his cycle collided with a box truck heading south, said Lt. John McAndrew of the Orangetown police."
Sounds like the cop crossed the line into oncoming traffic.

Kennedy · 02-15-2008, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by ism409

That is a bummer..
I don't see why the driver would be charged though.. according to this:
"Bergen County Police Sgt. William Koretsky, 46, had some type of trouble negotiating a hill on Route 9W in Orangetown, N.Y., when his cycle collided with a box truck heading south, said Lt. John McAndrew of the Orangetown police."
Sounds like the cop crossed the line into oncoming traffic.

I was insinuating that there could have possibly been some foul play involved. But with his age....and the type of motorcycle he was riding I highly doubt they were trying to "tear up" the hills

NYCSTRIPES · 02-15-2008, 12:19 PM

Chris
realistically is was probably just a case of the cop riding onto some black ice. Funeral Details in wintertime are dangerous for motor cops. I doubt it if foul play had anything to do with it. Still a tragedy just the same.
Ken

Kennedy · 02-15-2008, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by NYCSTRIPES

Chris
realistically is was probably just a case of the cop riding onto some black ice. Funeral Details in wintertime are dangerous for motor cops. I doubt it if foul play had anything to do with it. Still a tragedy just the same.
Ken

Ken I have no doubts that motor cops is a dangerous job I would never want to be one even though I love riding, but with them bergen/hudson county boys you never know

.....However you are probably right about the black ice or even salt causing the accident it probably didn't help that they were in a foreign state as well as probably unknown roads.

Sucks to happen, LEO or not.

High_Revs_17 · 02-15-2008, 06:38 PM

A COPS episode a while back was riding with a Officer with a prosthetic limb just above the knee, the guy he was trying to arrest ran from him, but moments after the cop caught up and took him down, so I'm sure this guy's future might not have to change much.

V2Rider · 02-16-2008, 08:41 PM

Thats really to bad. At least he is upbeat as said, and lucky to be alive. I wonder how the other cops also wrecked? Did they ALL have some sort of mishap?