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Hmmm.
Here are 2 crashes where everyone says it's the driver's fault. At least, all bikers do. But some bikers would have anticipated them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChRovC8S1SI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Zg0JYDUqM
nick_h.-
Generally my question to myself is, “why?”
So when someone says they didn’t have time to react, or it came out of nowhere, why is that?
You can’t always avoid being rear-ended, but you can increase your safety margin on t-bones.
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Yea so the first one, it’s hard to say without biker’s view of the seconds before. The driver seemed to totally lose control and drift across the road. If he hadn’t taken out the first rider he might have taken out the following ones. Doesn’t look like many escape routes, only a question of where you hit the car (or bin it). The others avoided it, but was that only because it was already off the road by then?
Second one is discussed on Biker Down. Used for example of looming, if nothing else. He could have anticipated. Seconds before, the car enters the box. He could have slowed or moved his position, he didn’t. The family were brave to put it out there, and hopefully it helps avoid at least a few similar deaths… but it was avoidable.
pdlouche
I feel it's s never the car's drivers fault.