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The San Mateo County Coroner’s Office has identified the motorcyclist who died early Tuesday morning, Dec. 28, after striking a disabled vehicle on U.S. Highway 101 near Willow Road in Menlo Park.
He was Adam Christopher Wolf, a 36-year-old from San Jose, according to the Coroner’s Office.
The fatal collision closed the southbound lanes of 101 between approximately 4 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. and southbound traffic was diverted off the highway off-ramp north at Marsh Road.
Officers responded to a 3:50 a.m. report of the collision between a Honda Accord and a 2018 Kawasaki Ninja sport motorcycle, and at 4:04 a.m. issued a SigAlert closing the southbound lanes and then contacted the coroner’s office.
A 31-year-old Sunnyvale man lost control of the 1999 Accord and the car was stopped in the fast lane of southbound 101, north of Willow Road, with no lights on, the CHP reported. According to witnesses, the motorcyclist drove into the disabled car’s rear passenger door and was pronounced dead at the scene, the CHP report said.
Drugs or alcohol do not appear to be a factor in the collision, the CHP said. Any witnesses are asked to contact Officer D. Myers at 650-369-6261.
The driver of the car should be charged with a major driving &/or criminal violation. No one should ever have a driver’s license if they do not have the good sense to have their lights & flashers on when disabled – especially in the fast lane of a major highway! I’m just thankful that I was not on Route 101 at the time!
Please get this person off our highways!
The car was disabled, quite possible that there was no power, meaning there would be no flashing lights available! I was taught that the number one rule of driving was not to hit anything. I am guessing that the motorcyclist was traveling at an unsafe speed for the time and conditions.
jster51,
Going even the legal speed limit at night does not give a rider/driver a lot of time to react to a stopped car in the middle of a lane with no lights on. From the report, he hit the open rear passenger door so he was able to swerve out of the way but that extra 3 feet of protruding door from the car was just too much. Since the article does not report the bike was speeding I have no reason to believe they were. In this case the car seems to be at fault. While it is possible they did not have power I find it unlikely. Even if they did they should have had a way to signal to approaching motorists (flares, flashlight, warning triangles, etc.). It is pretty basic safety equipment and it sounds like they had time to get out of the vehicle (and leave the door open).
Condolences to the motorcyclists family.
To Enough:
I agree with your insights. As a licensed driver, your responsibility is avoid creating hazards for others. First ensure that you & the passengers are safe & next ensure that you have not created a hazard for others. Even if the car had lost all electrical power and you did not have any safety equipment in the car (which sadly, is often true), you have a moral obligation to warn approaching motorists of a deadly hazard – be safely on the median & wave, etc. to approaching motorists.
Also, this is another example of very mediocre reporting – so many unasked & unanswered questions. Route 101 has always been dangerous, but now the signage & construction combined with very poor road conditions makes it like driving in a 3rd World Country!
” this is another example of very mediocre reporting ”
Like if there are no more known facts to report then the reporter should simply make up “facts”?
” this is another example of very mediocre reporting ”
Like if there are no more known facts to report then the reporter should simply make up “facts”?