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Billy Lane, owner of Choppers Inc, and from Biker Build-Off fame, was injured in an accident yesterday in Florida. Apparently he crossed a coulbe yellow to pass 2 cars in his pickup and hit a moped rider head on. Unfortuantely the moped rider died.

Chopper Builder Involved In Fatal Crash

If his blood alcohol isn't under legal limits, he's in some serious trouble.

Oh man, to have a biker in a cage take out someone on a bike... The ultimate irony. I just hope the ruff-n-tuff biker crowd doesn't brush it off cause the guy was on a moped not a "real bike".

To quote Metallica, "My lifestyle determines my deathstyle." Eventually Lane will be on the losing side of these incidents. He's lucky he wasn't roasted alive on his last appearance on Biker Build-off.

It doesn't matter what the guy was riding, He's dead because
Billy crossed the line, and was driving in this guy's "lane".

I think the media has elevated some of these guys to a "Rock
God" type of status, and they think they can do anything.
Billy's about to go through a serious reality check.

My thoughts, and prayers, go out to the family, and friends,
of the poor sap he wiped out. It coulda been any one of us.

Uncle Charlie

According to the linked story, it wasn't a moped:

his southbound 2006 Dodge Ram pickup collided with a northbound 1983 Yamaha motorcycle

Poor decision on Lane's part to pass at that point. Most times, those double yellows are there for a reason. It wouldn't surprise me if he was buzzed.

I too feel sorry for that biker and his family.

Did you know that several months back he was
popped at another event for DUI?
Check this out

"Billy" should have stayed in his "Lane"

If you ever check out The Horse magazines website
you'd know they fragged his arse big time for the
DUI back then!
And some of those guys would be the last you'd expect
to slam him!
I use to chat with ALOT of them several years back.
I still lurk there now from time to time.

132's, there ya go.
Feel better?
I've got 135's, and I feel pretty good.
Mutter not.
Uncle Charlie

Oh yea!
Feel MUCH better!
And I got 135s, 45 pilots and some shims
standing by to play with!!
Mutter dibs are OPEN!!

Six to eight weeks for blood alcohol test results? .
The labs must be busy .

No kidding. They should be able to determine that on the spot.
Must be politics. If it was me, they'd already have the noose
around my neck.

Sorry, no more talking about politics.

I support the ban.
Uncle Charlie

And when he is Biker Build Off, he makes his drinking of whiskey and beer and big part of his image. If he was DUI, he should make himself a nice boyfriend in prison, he will deserve the all the rides he gets if guilty.

That is funny, like some hidden piece of evidence is going to make it OK that he crossed a double yellow and hit a BIKE! He of all people should have known better.

Well Benny, I'm not going to make any excuses, but not everyone trusts what the media says. Especially initial reports thrown together in a hurry. Just look at what happened to the guy who supposedly killed the little Ramsey girl, and that was with him saying he did it. Next thing you know they aren't pressing charges.

I see this all the time and it really pisses me off. People who pass when it's risky instead of waiting for a safe opportunity. It's the same as saying "i think i'll risk the lives of others to save myself a few seconds". He deserves whatever he gets. That could have onyone here's your son or daughter on that moped. Like i said, this pisses me off !

In July I had a stupid broad pass me in a no pass zone. I had to slow down to keep an accident from happening, as a truck was coming in that lane. Ths stupid broad ( no offense intended here, but she definitely wasnt a lady ), then turned on her washers to squirt me. As I got closer, she gave me the bird. As I looked at here plates, I realized this is the same dolt who nearly killed me in a different part of the suburbs four weeks earlier and 35 miles away. ( Personlaized plates are easy to recognize, especially with the handicap symbol and the word CUTE and the number "1" next to it. Well, a stop light came up and I lashed out at her, then proceeded to the nearest police station and turned her in. The first time, I thought maybe just a dumb mistake, the second time, its a idiot who is either a horrid driver and/or a person with a lot of anger at bikers, regardless, I dont care. The officer promised he would call her and tell her to watch out, as they have numerous complaints about her driving. I would simply love to see her when I am driving my car, then stop and "talk" with her. Some people have no regard for anyone.

As for Lane, drunk or not, he needs to pay a price for a completely reckless and negligent act.

Like any celebrity people get elevated to iconic status for no real reason. Lane is a Jack-Arse. The guy is white trash. Everytime he's on that show he's boasting of getting liquored up and riding around. I admire his ability to fabricate a bike out of raw metal, but that doesn't change the fact that he's nothing but trash. For that matter his bikes are the ones that are always breaking down, flawed in design. Whatever, this poor SOB gets hit head-on by a famous bike in a CAGE! I mean dang, aren't all of us even more careful when we're driving? LOOK TWICE MOTORCYCLES ARE EVERYWHERE.

The Crocodile Hunter dies from a stingray and this white-trash, florida cheese, Rob Zombie wanna-be, drunk-driving, dreadlock wearin, POS lives...where is the justice in this world.

crossing a dbl yellow line to pass and killing someone is big trouble. those yellow lines are there for a reason. imagine that pour rider seeing that vehicle pull out of where he/she thought it was safe.

cat

I think I posted here a year or two ago about a man here in Montana who fell asleep at the wheel due to untreated apnea. He crossed the double-line and killed a woman in a head-on. IIRC, he was convicted of negligent homicide and sentenced to 20 years, which at 60 YO is definitely a life sentence (untreated apnea sufferers tend to die of congestive heart failure - and they're not letting him treat it in prison).

It will be interesting to see what happens to Lane, alcohol or not. Will they throw the book at him like others or give him the celebrity treatment. Regardless it could be the end of Choppers, Inc., when the victim's family sue his arse off.

Well, this is definately something to learn from and a painful reminder as to what can happen when you don't exercise good judgement. Sometimes honest mistakes are made, but if this Billy Lane was indeed under the influence and crossing the double yellow lines... Throw the book at him... I don't care who he thinks he is.

Indeed.

His celebrity status runs with the biker crowd...aside from maybe a few surfers who might have caught one of his many Discovery Channel appearances...Main Stream will see him a "one of those tatooed biker hoodlum types" unfortunatly the stigma still follows us...I notice I'm treated differently when I show up some place in leathers on the bike...particularly if my ink is visable...sad but true...his status is likely to be his undoing (not that he won't deserve everything he gets if the reports are true...lock him up and toss the key...(provided he is guilty)

Well...what cha bet that Billy's first words to the officers summonded to the scene of this carnage were...."I didn't SEE him!"

Sound familiar???

Dwight
(Would this have been a case of the unfortunate moped/yamaha/whatever rider experiencing.....
[and sorry in advance, but I couldn't resist the following macabre re-working of Messrs. Lennon and McCartney's song]......

Billy Lane
was in his ears
and in his eyes)


(now...you guys KNEW I was a sick puppy ALREADY, didn't cha?)

Victims Brother speaks out

And to think I was 1 block north of where the accident happened at 8pm that very night. Two lane A1A. Speed limit 45 mph. Heck, I snapped a picture of Nobby (Shaun) there like two or three? years ago. Just a mile north and the police lay in wait for speeders. Speed trap some call it. 12 miles South is Sebastian Inlet.

Quote:

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“The goal is not to put him in jail as soon as possible. We have to prove criminal intent, that he knowingly passed the double line and that alcohol was involved.”

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At least it sounds like the cops are being methodical about it, not just slacking off.

I watch people get impatient on A1A all the time. It's too bad they can't just "chill" and enjoy the drive. It's also just too ironic that someone who has reached "the top" in biker circles was responsible for the death of another biker. I hope justice is served in the end. No one has the right to end anothers life without consequences.

Troopers said they haven't officially charged Lane yet with anything. They are waiting for blood-alcohol tests to come back. That could take weeks, but they do believe they already have enough probable cause to think he was under the influence.

Guys, take it from a guy who does this for a living. You don't wont to write him a ticket and let it go. You want to gather your evidence and try to prove negilent homicide......Angelis

Amen!!
And you know he'll have big gun Lawyers!
So any slip up and it's OJ again!

"Negligent Homicide"?
I'd call it Murder!
I don't understand why he wasn't taken directly to a
hospital for a blood sample that could be tested right
away. 8 weeks? WTF?

He'll probably claim equipment malfunction, or something
equally ridiculous, and get off.

Uncle Charlie

FJ, was that the one where he was riding with his sidestand down and caught one of those lane-divider reflectors (the bike LOST!)?

I know they can't charge him with murder, but that's still
how I see it. I just hope that he'll be taken to task, for
what he's done. The civil lawsuits will follow the criminal
procedings.

That's for sure.
Uncle Charlie