Motorcycle Tips & Techniques is a great motorcycle safety website.  The site contains videos and in-depth articles that detail the particular hazardds faced by motorcycle riders every day. Coincidence or not we had recently blogged about a motorcycle phenomenon called target fixation and so did Motorcycle Tips & Techniques where they perform what they call a "case study." 

Their case study talks about a woman named Karen that crashes into the side of a pickup truck.  After rounding a right hand turn Karen appeared to fixate of the oncoming truck and probably would have been killed had it not been for evasive manoeuvres by the truck.  Karen "... suffered massive body trauma during the accident.  Her left leg was peeled open (literally shredded) from hip to lower leg, compound fractures in several places both above and below the left knee, several ribs on th left side had been broken and punctured her left lung, her liver was 'fractured' as apparently was her spleen, and her diaphragm had been pierced."

This is an excellent blow-by-blow account of the effect of target fixation and Karen's injuries and recovery.

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