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Awful. Condolences to the McClintock family, and prayers for the deceased and the mourning.

It's depressing that, 30 years after publication of the Hurt Report, still "[t]he failure of motorists to detect and recognize motorcycles in traffic is the predominating cause of motorcycle accidents. The driver of the other vehicle involved in collision with the motorcycle did not see the motorcycle before the collision, or did not see the motorcycle until too late to avoid the collision." (Wikipedia) Besides making bikes more visible using headlamp modulators, wide lightbars, bright clothes and paint schemes, I'm not sure what else will work to light up the easily-overloaded human perception system when a bike comes into view. It's all on the motorcyclist to presume invisibility.