Freeway Riding Learning Opportunity

Motorcycle.com Staff
by Motorcycle.com Staff

Apparently, this rider never read our Riding Safe: Crash Avoidance article from 2012. If he had he would have come across this nugget of riding wisdom. Ride Paranoid: They are out to get you. Every moving vehicle within visual proximity is not to be trusted. Whether it’s a left turn, lane merge, U-turn, running a red light, etc., you must always assume the driver of another vehicle lacks all reasonable intelligence and will execute any maneuver necessary to inflict maximum harm upon you.

Having illegally merged over the double yellow lines into the HOV lane, the young motorist with the ink still drying on his license is clearly at fault in this particular incident. However, the crash could (maybe) have been avoided had the motorcyclist:

The combination of slower speed and faster reaction time may have given the rider a chance to take evasive maneuvers and split between the slower-moving cars, or, at the very least, lessen the impact. His relative lack of injury in this instance is down to luck, but not hitting the car in the first place would have been a far more desirable outcome.

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  • Edmilson Mamulengo Edmilson Mamulengo on May 29, 2017

    With me happend the opposit. A police officer ordered to me to stop - it´s how things works in Brazil. It was a comando, 2 police cars with 4 officers in the side of the road, several cars stopped for documentation inquiry. So, I was stopping my bike, a Super Duke 990, and a truck hit me and trowed me in the air and, then, falling with a left broken elbow and wrist!!! The explanation? He did not see the police officer or cars stopped in the side of the road!!!!

  • Matt Holm Matt Holm on Jul 16, 2017

    Drivers phone sitting on his lap!

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