quick and going a bit wide, at which point i decided to brake. seconds from a head-on collision, jack sanderson is about to become the next cat and fiddle statistic. i m faced with two choices. hit the car. or avoid the car and hit the fence. i chose the fence. his motorcycle gets caught up in a barbed wire fence, and the camera flies off his helmet. sanderson catapults along with it down the steep slope, and bangs his head. all my vision was black and white and i can t hear anything. lucky to be alive, he picks himself and his camera up and climbs back to the road. i missed the car by inches. i was lucky it wasn t a stone wall. i m lucky it was barbed wire. and i m also lucky i landed in a field full of grass.
service, and a 12-week prison sentence suspend for 12 months. sanderson is determined to climb back on his bike again after he gets his license back. it s going to be something that is going to stay with me forever. but next time, sanderson says his need for speed will be tamed by his experience on the cat and fiddle. you can t treat a public road as a racetrack. that s just wrong. on another challenging road in europe, a runaway rally car suddenly veers off course and heads straight for a crowd of spectators. translator: my only thought was, where are we going to end up? october 6th, 2014, 9:00 a.m. in italy, a scenic village nestled high up in the alps. cars roar around hair-pin curves in the first stage of the annual rally. translator: instead of going
it s a passion, and you are connected to the motorcycle. it is an amazing thing to do. named for the quaint pub at its summit, the cat and fiddle has a sobering claim to fame. according to road safety experts, it s the most dangerous road in all of britain. yes, come and enjoy it, by all means, but do not ride beyond your means. and it s as simple as that. according to motor vehicle statistics, 44 people died or were seriously injured here in just four years. bikers like jack sanderson know the laws and risks, but they are drawn to the cat and fiddle s hair-pin curves anyway. imagine being sat on a rocket that s been fired from a fighter jet. that s the feeling you get from riding a motorcycle.
those who have had a drug or alcohol problem may be more likely to misuse lyrica. now i have less diabetic nerve pain. and i love helping first graders put their best foot forward. ask your doctor about lyrica. a road that rides along ancient stone walls is a high stakes temptation for speed. i thought, this is it, this is me, dead. february 22nd, 2014, in northwest england, just 25 miles outside manchester, 22-year-old jack sanderson rides the cat and fiddle just like he has done at least 100 times before. better than sex, i d say, riding a motorcycle.
especially when you are on board a 110 horse power sport bike like jack sanderson s. it was a fast bike. 163 miles an hour, i think it clocked it out. the cat and fiddle speed limit is 50. and road markings warn slow, but dry road conditions mean anything but to jack and a friend. we were having a bit of a play. we were going quick. and it s all being recorded on sanderson s helmet cam. usually you get some good footage you can make a little video of. they don t have the road to themselves, so there is a bottleneck when they gain on another biker and have to slow down. that s when sanderson starts to get antsy. i was behind my friend. and i saw an opportunity to overtake. sanderson breaks the law and crosses the double white line, the right lane in the u.k., and can see there is no traffic coming. but the next two curves are blind.