EMPD vehicle crashes into the back of bike
Motor bike hit by EMPD vehicle when trying to join Pretoria Road, in Primrose.
The GCN was called to the scene of a collision, on Monday.
The accident occurred on the corner of Beaconsfield Avenue and Pretoria Road and involved an EMPD vehicle and a motorcycle.
The GCN approached Kobeli Mokheseng, media liaison officer for the EMPD, for comment on the incident.
“At 11am, in the Primrose area, at the corner of Pretoria Road and Beaconsfield Avenue, an (branded/marked) EMPD Volkswagen Polo sedan, driven by a female EMPD officer in her 30s, collided with a stationary black Triumph motorcycle driven by a male in his 40s,”he said.
“No injuries were sustained in the incident.
“It is not clear at this stage what actually occurred before the crash, but preliminary investigation reveals that the motorcyclist was stationary at the stop sign, ready to join Pretoria Road, when the approaching patrolling EMPD vehicle bumper-bashed the bike from the rear.
“Our Ekurhuleni Metro Police Accident Reconstruction Unit will investigate the actual cause of the accident.”
A tiny bumper bash… Why is there an article on this?
Slow news week?
@ James, take another look at some of the pictures and you will see that the bike has damage on the stop light cluster. Take a close look at the chain and see how it is not taught. There is obviously some damage to the swingarm as well. You clearly know nothing about motorcycles and are not a damage assessor.
If I didn’t have my bike with me I would have sworn that it was my bike involved there.
I am not an expert on these things, bit it seems that both was moving. The bike was moving slower than the car. If you look at the wheels of the car, the wheel in front, the car hit it while the bike’s back wheel was turning thats why it lifted the car in front. Most likely the bike was stationed behind the line in the road and started to move slowly forwards, while the car did not. the driver of the car was proberly looking for trafic from the right and thaught the bike left already.
Deon – remember – the push from the car could be enough to move the bike forwards, especially if the rider was not hard on the brakes.
Even cars move forward when rear-ended, and the weigh 4 or more times as much.