Confronting video on Motorcycle safety

[Wrecka]

Please read the warnings at the start.

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[Mittzy]

Wow, didn't stand a chance really.

 

[ozrider]

I watched it..... then thought why as I don't like seeing that sort of footage......just another reason to treat everyone else on the road like an idiot and assume they don't see you.

 

[peter k]

Poor car driver more than likely didn't see the bike as the bike was travelling way to fast.

 

[cusso ken]

Poor car driver more than likely didn't see the bike as the bike was travelling way to fast.

It made my blood run cold , every time you approach an intersection like that with a car about to turn with blinker on ,you hope they have seen you and are not drunk/high or just inattentive ,at that speed he had no time except to cry out, poor young fellar and poor old Mum left to grieve, no winners here he was speeding and it would have been hard for the car driver to react as he was committed to the turn.

 

[HansO]

At the speed he (the rider) was going there was absolutely no way the car could have anticipated the bikes arrival at the intersection!!
the vid is definitely not for the faint hearted

 

[pete.triumph]

Reminds me of an accident i saw to an on coming bike right in front of me about 10 y ago , I was following a car on 100 k limit hwy and the car in front of me indicated to turn right into his farm driveway i could see him l looking in his rear view mirror to make sure i wasn't going to over take while he was slowing down to turn right,too bad he didn't look in front of him to see the on coming bike as he started to turn once he looked forwards after he already started to turn to my horror too late he had turn in front of the on coming bike he did stop but he was 3/4 across the opposite lane ,the bike hit him on front fender at about 90 km/h i was right behind the car and saw the rider fly though the air 20-30 meters *** *** *** pull over ran over to the rider lucky there was tall grass on the side of the hwy where he landed he looked ok his thigh was swelling he had broken it other wise he seemed ok , another bike behind me took off to get an ambulance.

 

[RKTNMYPKT]

Very scary how quickly things can happen

As hard as it is to watch, I'll be playing this for my daughter who will be taking her motorcycle training course this month.....

 

[RanDom_Chipmunk]

Any loss of life is terrible. And when it is as senseless and preventable as this, it is doubly so. What popped into my head when I watched this was how surprised and concerned I was when, for months after I got my first motorcycle, various friends and family members addressed me with comments that all followed the theme of, "Now that I know you are riding a motorcycle, I am seeing so many more on the road." I suppose that at that point I hadn't realized how truly invisible we are because I had been in love with the idea of riding from the age of six, so I was always aware of bikes on the road. I am both glad that the people I care about are more aware of motorcycles on the road and sad that they weren't aware in the first place. I feel sorrow for the departed's family, and his mother is incredibly brave to use this tragedy as an opportunity to educate.