Whale-ista
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Hit-and-run driver severely injures San Diego biker during race in Mexico
ENSENADA, Mexico (KGTV) — A San Diego dirt bike racer is recovering tonight in Mexico after a bizarre mid-race crash with a mystery SUV.
On Saturday morning, about 60 miles southeast of Ensenada, 29-year-old Josear Carrasco was racing a course he knew well. On this day, he would not
finish.
"Just devastated. It's really hard. He's my everything, so it's hard to see him like this," said his wife, Kylie.
Kylie was in a truck along the course when she got the news. Josear was in second place, nearly done with his 100-mile stretch and about to turn his
bike over to a teammate. That's when he says he collided with an SUV that had driven onto the course, headed toward him.
https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/hit-and-run-driver-in...
\"Probably the airplanes will bring week-enders from Los Angeles before long, and the beautiful poor bedraggled old town will bloom with a
Floridian ugliness.\" (John Steinbeck, 1940, discussing the future of La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
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Bajazly
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Yep, racing in Mexico. We came over a rise one night during the 1000 and as we crested there was an F150 pointed right at us lights on full. Managed
to steer slightly to the right but the car scraped down the whole side of his truck. Had he been 2 or 3 feet more in the race course our race would
have been over and maybe worse.
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Bajazly, August 2019
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https://www.race-dezert.com/forum/threads/baja-racing-family...
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bajatrailrider
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Very sad about this I was at this race. Riding motos In Mexico very dangerous. Racing in Mexico even more so very common hit and run drivers. I wish
for his full recovery 🙏
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del mar
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im guessing the SUV won he's a good kid if you want to help there's a GO FUND ME
page.
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I hate it when this happens. I wish him the very best, my thoughts and prayers go out to him and his family.
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Jinete Viejo
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The picture of the bike makes my blood run cold. Bottom of the triple clamp shattered, top of the right fork leg shattered, exhaust pipe ripped off at
the barrel and wrapped around the kick starter. That was one heck of an impact. He will most definitely be in my thoughts and prayers.
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JZ
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Very sad.
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