Who was in the wrong here?

[Gnasher]

Its not a cut and dry case.

[alpslapper]

Look very very very very carefully at 10 second mark - when the biker swings from lane 2 to lane 1. Did he leave the car driver enough room to accommodate - also look at the posture of the rider immediatley before impact - is he brakeing heavy??????? about to pull over to the hard shoulder, not aware of what's happening behind him???

[YEN_POWELL]

Motorcyclist's fault.

In the clip I saw of this last year (which lasted longer), he was up and walking around a few seconds after coming off.

[Steve C]

Look very very very very carefully at 10 second mark - when the biker swings from lane 2 to lane 1. Did he leave the car driver enough room to accommodate - also look at the posture of the rider immediatley before impact - is he brakeing heavy??????? about to pull over to the hard shoulder, not aware of what's happening behind him???

I must have a different video view or something because in mine, he enters the viewfinder already in the inside lane... I'd still put my money on the car driver not looking forward but looking at the Police vehicle - we can't see that on the vid though so it is supposition...

[alpslapper]

The motorcyclist at 11 seconds comes into the frame at an angle and proceeds to move across the path of the vehicle in lane one, from right to left - to me he also looks like hes braking heavy - possibly to pull onto the hard shoulder: to me, it looks like he swept from lane 2 to lane 1 without looking properly - he is definately on the white line when he enters the picture and moves across the path of the car - but like you said - supposition - main thing is if I remember correctly noone was seriously injured and the biker was all but unscathed.

[Xander]

He definitely came from 2 to 1 and I could see not indicator light at all.. his fault..

[YEN_POWELL]

He definitely came from 2 to 1 and I could see not indicator light at all.. his fault..

I reckon he was pullin in to report the driver on his left undertaking.

[Mervinh]

cannot remember exact details now but it was a memeber of south west bikers on the A38 between plymouth and exeter, he was on the way to return a chain breaker and take a couple of cans of beer as a thenkyou to another member for the loan of the breaker if my memory serves me correctly
merv

[YEN_POWELL]

cannot remember exact details now but it was a memeber of south west bikers on the A38 between plymouth and exeter, he was on the way to return a chain breaker and take a couple of cans of beer as a thenkyou to another member for the loan of the breaker if my memory serves me correctly
merv

I used to ride that road every weekend for about 2 years on my way from London to Plymouth.

Can anyone explain how the first 200 miles took no time at all (I used to just pull away from Bethnal Green in London and ride straight past Stonehenge about 10 minutes later), but Exeter to Plymouth took about 8 hours and seemed to be about 400 miles.

[Lumiya]

Full video is here



We have discussed this one before and everyone blamed the bike as you can clearly see by the angle that he's moving from right to left.

Kymmy