This is the terrifying moment a motorcyclist smashed head-on into another biker causing them to lose their leg.
The motorcyclist’s helmet camera captured the horrific crash in wet and foggy conditions along the A3052 Sidford to Colyton, in Devon.
Riding a Kawasaki, Kathryn Goff, 52, overtook an RAC recovery van and drove straight into the path of a Honda motorcycle at around 5.45pm on March 9, 2023.
The footage showed Goff wiping raindrops from the helmet’s visor several times during the ten mile journey from their workplace as the music blared out.
The Honda rider, Michael Wakefield suffered a bleed on the brain, chest and lung wounds, an injured right hand but his right leg was later amputated after he landed up in a roadside ditch.
The caretaker told the court his ‘life has been destroyed’ by the collision and he has had to move into a bungalow in Seaton, Devon, away from his family.
Goff, from Exeter, Devon, was jailed for 20 months after pleading guilty to causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
Helmet camera footage from Goff showed numerous breaches of the Highway Code on the day of the collision, and an extended period of poor riding prior to the incident, Devon and Cornwall Police said.
Both motorcycles were extensively damaged and the RAC van suffered bodywork damage.
Goff had held the biking licence for two years and had driven various vehicles while in the Armed forces.
Prosecutor Miss Evie Dean said the driving was inappropriate and dangerous in those weather conditions and Goff contravened double white lines while overtaking other traffic during the ride.
At one point Goff was travelling at 53mph in a 30mph limit.
Miss Hollie Gibery, defending, said Goff ‘just does not know and cannot explain the manner of her driving that day’.
She added that Goff is due to go to a gender clinic in the Autumn but will have to serve a jail term in a ‘male estate’.
Goff will also be disqualified from holding a licence for four years.
Officer in the case, Alan Kennedy said: ‘Kathryn Goff’s actions on the day of the collision resulted in an injury which has changed the life of another motorcycle rider.
‘This was a totally avoidable collision.
‘Goff’s riding fell far below the standard expected of a road user and the decision to perform the overtake was made even worse by the poor weather conditions at the time.
‘We hope this case will serve as a reminder that every manoeuvre can have tragic consequences.’
