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Pop culture takes on the motorbike crash
Motorcycle accidents are widely represented in popular culture, as several songs demonstrate. This suggests that the dangers to motorcyclists of being involved in a motorbike crash are well understood, yet they still occur.
Of those in popular songs, the most famous crash is probably that which happens to 'The Leader of the Pack' in the song by the Shangri-Las, one that happens as the biker drives away in the throes of the pains of thwarted love. Thwarted, indeed by the parents of the song's heroine, Betty, who force her to send away the boy as he is from the wrong side of the tracks.
Sadly, my experience in a personal injury compensation company leads me to expect that there is a very strong likelihood that any attempt to make a motorbike crash compensation claim would be contested on the grounds that a biker, whether or not he leads a pack, should not have been riding in such a state.
Arlo Guthrie's Motorcycle Song, which can be seen on YouTube at http://youtube.com/watch?v=g266Uwp6ZnI, pretends to have been written while the singer-songwriter was actually being involved in a motorbike crash, and a serious one. According to the words of the song, it was written while the singer fell through the air after having gone over a cliff, before landing on a police car and surviving.
It's a song that rhymes "pickle" with "motorcycle", and then "die" with "motorcy... cle"; the words of the song go on to say that "I knew that it wasn't the best song l ever wrote, but I didn't have time to change it. I was comin' down mighty fast."
With no apparent personal injury done to the singer, there's no reason for him to make a compensation claim at all. However, there may be a claim to be made by the "four foot cop with the five foot gun" who later turns out to have been a six foot cop before the bike landed on his car.
More seriously, the death of Notorious BIG brought Faith Evans, Puff Daddy (as he was then) and 112 together to make a tribute single and video for him. This uses the image of a motorcycle crash to suggest pain and an abrupt stop such as the rapper's death brought to the scene.
Even though the last song's dedicatee didn't die in a motorcycle accident, it's this song that reminds us of the real human cost that a motorbike crash can have. The distance that comes into the first two songs through age and unreal qualities, respectively, can insulate a listener from the effects of potential personal injury that could arise in the aftermath of a motorcycle accident.
That's not to say you have to like this one best. Personally, if I had to choose, I'd be taking the Arlo Guthrie song with me, but with an awareness that its cartoon depiction of the world must not be allowed to make me callous to the serious personal injury that could have resulted were the guitar-based motorbike accident real.
