Who with the right mentality would use a motorcycle to instigate a lane closure in the first place? Clowns.
ffs! I do hope the poor bloke is alright! Car drivers don't see bikes at the best of times let alone look for them as a road block
Not sure he'd have the choice!? What a complete weapon..... Hope he was alright, but some folk really don't help themselves. The irony that the road bloke was for an ambulance is priceless.
There was no need to block lane, he could have just filtered on normally, horrible to see it caught on camera, hope he's okay.
I thought the HGV was going to collect him at first, at least the video footage would show that the car driver wasn't to blame if they tried to pin it on him.
I do hope the rider is ok, but seriously what was he/she thinking ? it's not as if the traffic was that heavy it required a lane block Again no excuse for the driver of the car failing to see what's in-front of their eyes
First rule of motorcycling...... Think the worst, expect the worst, and think for everybody else, as its likely to hurt you a lot more than them. Obviously the Officer was having an off day
I would never have gone for a fend off position there even in my car. The person in the yellow car though was obviously not paying much attention to where they were going, doesn't even look like they braked. There must have been a very unwell person in the ambulance to have warranted the police escort. The guy made a bad choice, I do not think he was an idiot, he got it wrong, but at the end of the day he was actually trying to assist in saving someones life.
Watching it again a few times, the yellow car took avoiding action but the motorcyclist, first let the bike roll back then jumped off into the path of the yellow car. The driver of the yellow car probably spotted the flashing lights of the out-riders and ambulance through the trees and slip road then looked back to see the bike dead in front. The bike, really should have stopped on the chevrons and directed traffic from there out of harms way...IMO
The yellow car started to swerve away but it was far too late to miss the bike. I think he jumped off because he could see the yellow car was going to hit him. If the other bikes and ambulance had been closer the yellow car would probably have hit them as well. The trouble is when you are in a situation like this you don't have much time to think about it. Sometimes you get it right and other times not. Unfortunately, when you get it wrong someone usually ends up getting hurt. I used to hate driving to shouts on the blues and two's as they were known. It can be really stressful and getting the balance between speed and safety is not always as easy as it might seem.
Dutch traffic officer on the A7. Torn vertebrae, broken jaw and concussion he got away with, lucky lucky boy. Now used as a "how not to " training video.
WTF was he thinking?That truck may not have been able to react if the cars overtaking left him no room. I would have looked for a clear gap first.That driver of the yellow car must have been blind.It was a good 200 yrds before hand.
Spending a fair amount of time on the nations highways and byways, and as I'm sure most riders will know, there are some drivers who enter a trance like state when driving ; more often than you'd think; Subconscious Driving I think the fact that you have to be so much more attentive to your positioning, balance, surroundings, traffic when you're on a bike is why I never find myself thinking "I don't remember the last five miles" on two wheels but I reckon most people will have had a moment like that in a car. Reckon that's what the yellow car was suffering from. Or maybe they were on the bloody phone!!!!!!
I think you are right in what you are saying there Pete. We all have no doubt got to work and thought, how the feck did I get here, after being on auto pilot. It's one of the main reasons even on a bike why most accidents happen within 10 minutes of being home, or close to a place we all think we know and take for granted as being less of a risk.
