On October 23, 2013, as I was riding my 2012 Yamaha R1, a driver was texting and merged into my lane without even looking up. I had just gotten off of I-10 Westbound and had gotten on I-17 Northbound. I then found myself apart from my bike on the freeway for about 300ft.
After I got some help getting my bike out of the middle of the freeway my mother parked about 10-12ft in front of my motorcycle in the hazard lane. We called several places including friends to come help from inside the car. Shortly after making a few calls we exited the car and my mother stood on the cement wall on the right of the freeway while I fiddled with my motorcycle to make sure everything was still functioning. Suddenly my mother yelled, "Brandon! Look out!!". I looked up and saw a van coming straight at me!! I painfully jumped out the way as the van missed me by a maximum of 8" and totaled my moms car. I had now almost died twice within an hour!!
My mothers car got airborne twice and then the driver turned back into the freeway to try to leave after totaling the car. He made it about 100 yards before his car wouldn't allow him to go any further.
We found out that the driver was completely drunk, had no insurance and told the officers, "I don't know where that car came from!" and thought that we jumped out at him!
