Jacksonville groups hosting ‘Fallen Rider Memorial’ Saturday for motorcyclists killed in 2021

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Thirty-nine motorcyclists person died successful crashes connected Jacksonville roads this year, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.

Two section groups privation to grant those riders, portion besides sending a wide connection to each drivers.

Remembering motorcyclists killed portion bringing consciousness to roadworthy information to forestall those crashes is Beth Davis’ goal.

“In those 2 seconds, if you look back, you truly honestly could prevention a life,” she said.

Davis is the president of Coast 2 Coast Slingshots that is simply a radical known for riding three-wheel motorcycles.

She is hosting a “Fallen Rider Memorial” ceremonial Saturday and is presenting families with customized plaques.

The plaques volition beryllium placed connected already existing memorial markers acceptable up astatine antithetic clang sites astir the city.

One spot is astatine the intersection of Main and Union Streets downtown. That’s wherever Manuel Angel Rodriguez mislaid his beingness successful January.

The plaques read: “God Speed. Look Twice, Save a Life.”

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Davis was inspired aft Jerry Turner was killed portion riding a motorcycle connected September 5 successful Orange Park. The operator of the car was criminally charged.

“When I scope retired to [families and friends] erstwhile idiosyncratic has passed and they’re crying connected the phone, to maine it’s precise personal,” Davis said.

RideNow Powersports Jacksonville is teaming up with Coast 2 Coast Slingshots by making the plaques acceptable to beryllium presented to 15 families this weekend.

“We cognize however it feels to suffer a loved one, whether it’s a person oregon household subordinate that rode,” said Amber Stemple, the dealership’s selling and events manager. “[They] mislaid their lives due to the fact that a car did not look twice.”

Stemple says she is compelled to assistance arsenic 3 employees mislaid their lives successful crashes implicit the past fewer years.

“We cognize that they would proceed riding,” she said. “So, we thrust for the ones who can’t.”

Stemple and Davis privation families going done the aforesaid symptom to not consciousness alone.

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“I anticipation that they cognize that we’re determination for them,” Stemple said. “Whether they bought their motorcycle [at RideNow Powersports Jacksonville], whether they get a work present oregon whether they get their parts here.”

“We privation to bring the assemblage unneurotic and fto them cognize that we care,” Davis said. “Let the families cognize that we care, and we volition bash thing we tin to assistance out.”

The Fallen Rider Memorial is Saturday day from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. astatine RideNow Powersports Jacksonville connected Blanding Boulevard.

Families tin past spot the plaques connected their loved ones’ memorials erstwhile they consciousness the clip is right.

If you would similar to petition a plaque for a loved 1 killed successful a motorcycle crash, you tin scope Beth Davis: bethlee13@gmail.com oregon Amber Stemple: astemple@ridenow.com

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