Target fixation causes so many accidents in any activity that involves motion. I remember in my hang gliding days there would huge landing zones with a tree in it somewhere that was very easy to avoid and inevitably someone would hit it. It was comical unless of course the person was injured. I was riding the Rocket up highway 1 north of Bodega Bay on some serously twisty portion of the road and went into a right curve just a bit too fast, easy to do with the Rocket. I found myself over the line and heading straight for a motorhome. It was very difficult not to keep looking at the motorhome but I knew I needed to look where I wanted to go in order to avoid hitting it. Our natural reflexes are often NOT our best friend and need to be trained out of us.
Then again our own ability to avoid target fixation is only half the story. If the other guy has it on you then you are still going to crash, as that sequence of pictures so graphically shows. Ouch!