Do you know?

[burns]

I opened up the Sunday paper to the local part. There was a photo of a person being pulled up over the side of 526, near N Rhett. The paper did not say if the rider lived or died but that the rider was on a Honda sportbike and went over the side.
Does anyone here know anything about this or who the rider might have been?

[Mike]

What the hell?! This was THE weekend for crashes. Here, Jennings...

6 incodents here in charleston.

[Kat_Mac]

Below is an article from Post and Courier.

NORTH CHARLESTON TEEN LIVES AFTER MOTORCYCLE WRECK

By John Chambliss
The Post and Courier Staff

Arthur Jenkins said he knew something bad was going to happen when a motorcyclist sped past him and attempted to turn off a sandy exit ramp in North Charleston.

Seconds later, the young motorcyclist in a red jacket skidded into a barrier off Interstate 526, flipped over his handlebars, and fell at least 20 feet below the road.

“It looked like someone slung him out of a slingshot,” Jenkins said. “I thought for sure that he was dead.”

But Christopher David Meyer, 19, survived the fall and was in good condition Monday at Medical University Hospital.

“He’s doing OK,” said his grandmother, Thelma Kemp. “He had the Lord with him.”

Jenkins, an avid motorcyclist himself and a U.S. Army medical worker, was driving his Mitsubisihi to his home in North Charleston at about 5:30p.m. Saturday when Meyer drove by on a 1998 Honda motorcycle.

North Charleston police reported that Meyer contributed to the accident, but they did not charge him. An incident report estimates his speed at 60 mph, 5mph over the posted limit.

The North Charleston teenager and Jenkins both signaled to turn at the North Rhett Avenue exit.

“I said to myself, ‘There’s no way possible he’s going to make the same exit I’m about to take,’ “ Jenkins said. The exit ramp has a much lower speed limit than the highway.

Meyer hit the brakes, started to skid in a sandy area and the front wheel swiveled and slammed into a wall. He bounced off the wall, hit the barrier a second time and flew over the wall into some brush and small trees, North Charleston police reported. The ramp was closed after the accident to remove the sand.

“He went at least 10 feet out,” Jenkins said.

Jenkins pulled off the road and ran to the wall.

He feared the worst when he saw the man lying on his back in the foliage.

Jenkins yelled that he was calling 911 and that “help was on the way.” The two yelled back and forth about the teenager’s condition.

At one point, Meyer removed his helmet and told him that his left leg hurt.

Ten minutes later, Meyer called his mother on his cell phone.

Meanwhile, Jenkins directed traffic on the interstate and waited above for an ambulance to arrive. He said he couldn’t believe Meyer survived the fall.

“He was just so lucky.”