Two Killed In Fourth Of July Motorcycle Wreck
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Two Killed In Fourth Of July Motorcycle Wreck
A Fourth of July collision between five motorcycles left two dead and five injured.
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(July 5, 2008)--A Fourth of July collision involving five motorcycles killed two people and injured five others.

The accident happened Friday near the Sam Rayburn Dam in East Texas, about 130 miles northeast of Houston.

The Department of Public Safety said Robert Benjamin Boren of Galveston was heading west on Recreational Road 255 on his motorcycle when the bike crossed the centerline and collided with another motorcycle on which Donald Mitchell Jackson of Wells was riding.

Both were killed.

Another Harley Davidson cyclist, A. W. Wright of Lufkin, drove through the crash scene and struck Jackson.

Two other cyclists who followed Wright also crashed.

Wright was taken to Lufkin's Memorial Hospital where he was treated for a broken leg.

Four others, including two passengers, were treated at Jasper Memorial Hospital and later released.

One of the passengers was a 12-year-old boy.

Boren was not wearing a helmet, and it was not immediately clear whether Jackson was wearing one.

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Posted by: pam Location: gunter on Jul 8, 2008 at 03:27 PM

Jimmy - we were also out in that area riding our bikes and for some unknown reason we decided not to take R255 - and you are right - it is gods will. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your friends.
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Posted by: bikermom Location: East Texas on Jul 7, 2008 at 11:37 PM

Of course you should wear a helmet but not just any kind. You need to save between $1000 to $1500 for riding gear and even that won't protect you from brain trauma if you hit an object and your brain swells. If you think the accident is bad wait till you have to spend a couple of years recovering and then be in debt close to or more than a million and thats with insurance. If you're lucky you might have disability but if you don't have a power of attorney drawn pre-accident then what good is any of all this. So Gear, Donor Info, Full coverage medical, dental, vision, disability and legal documents entrusted to a loved one who will kill themself helping you to recover and that includes watching you rehab through much pain and suffering and then we call it a miracle you are sill alive. Guess what? Its all in Gods Hands and only You can Save yourself with His Word and your Faith in Him the Almighty. Keep the prayer alive and thats all you have left.
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Posted by: WACO Location: TEXAS on Jul 7, 2008 at 02:34 PM

LOWER THE GAS AND NOT AS MANY INEXPERIENCED RIDERS WILL BE ON THE ROAD KILLING OTHERS.
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