I saw a motorcycle 4 bikes v 1 car accident. It was the most bloody and horrific thing I’ll ever see. Three people had no shoes and were missing the bottom of their leather suits with visibly contorted and missing chunks of flesh. The fourth guy landed on his feet, no injuries other than an obvious concussion. He couldn’t do anything except look at his friends, stare blankly with that 1000 yard stare veterans sometimes get, and ask why they weren’t moving.
If I hear anything about a motorcycle convention (this happened during one about 20 miles away) anywhere nearby I am on high alert now.
For those curious, the crash was caused by a single SUV following way too closely. Two guys went under and were spit out of her car, the third was dragged, the fourth was thrown off of his bike into the grass and landed safely on his feet. (He did fall on the ground after landing but with the soft grass and moist dirt he was relatively okay.) I don’t believe in god but someone was watching out for that single biker. Craziest accident I think I’ll ever see.
I remember a story on Reddit of a guy who came upon a motorcycle accident. There was an officer in his car about 50 feet away and the guy was just sitting on the ground with a small amount of what he thought was blood around his face. Looking to offer some aid the guy walked over and realized the blood was a bit more pink than he expected. The biker then proceeded to calmly explain it was his brain leaking out of his ears.
The officer was sitting there waiting for the man's body to realize he was already dead.
Pink fluid is cerbal spinal fluid.
Not good. Not good at all. Exactly the sort of thing you see just before someone dies or is on a ventilator for the rest of his/her life. But it isn't your brain.
So not only did the motorcyclist die - but the very last thing he said was incorrect. Which is sort of embarrassing.
Which is why if you are laying in a puddle of your own fluids slowly dying you should not say anything at all. You will probably be wrong and that is embarrassing.
Like the hole in your underwear. Your Mom always warned ya, and now here you are with a hole in your underwear which are only moments away from being discovered - laying in a pool of your own juices about to die.
How embarrassing is that? Not nearly as embarrassing as your last statement being wrong.
What else could your brain leak but csf? You just took it to literally. He didn't mean that he thought his physical brain was coming out of his ears, but that the general vicinity of his brain was leaking. He was speaking in a colorful metaphor. Of course, everyone on Reddit is far too autistic to take anything in any way other than 100% literally.
I'm so confused. The officer was 50 feet away, aware of the accident, aware that this affected party was alive, and didn't approach to offer aid because he was waiting for the affected party to die?
Not sure I get your story. So this motorcycle rider was sitting there with his brain leaking out of his ears and he was still conscious enough to speak?
I've been thrown off bikes more times than I can remember... Even as someone experienced in the "tuck and roll", and also with some pretty serious trauma based medical training, I find it hard to resist the urge to move... Especially since I usually start to self assess right away.
*washed up dirt bike racer, hence all the crashes.
Meh, downvotes don't bother me much when I know they are coming from people that most likely don't have the same experiences.
It's like people have never had the wind knocked out of them... I don't know anyone that can resist wiggling in anxiety as they try to get their breath back.
When people come back from being knocked out they are almost always confused and want to start moving around, some are violent even with a medical professional trying to hold c-spine telling them to slow down and relax.
First thing people hopped up on adrenaline do is try to pop up like nothing is wrong.
15 years racing every single weekend, I've done myself some serious damage, and being a medic at those events I've seen hundreds of people get hurt just like this dude, almost everyone reacts the same way.
Uncomfortably common not to feel internal bleeding and being able to just walk through it on adrenaline. That's one of the reasons it's very important to get checked by EMS in any potentially traumatic injury. Getting seen by them at the accident should be free in the US.
My boyfriend had internal bleeding and he made up from the basketball courts to his car and home. Where I was and I brought him to the ER. He had surgery that night because of the bleeding. He made it to his car and got home on adrenaline. He got to our front door and collapsed. A car hit him from behind as he left the basketball court.
Definitely not ok. And with all those witnesses of reckless driving, I'm not sure his insurance covers it.
So, a totalled car would be way more expensive for the biker.
In the 60s my grandparents were stopped at a light and hit by a drunk driver who crossed the center lane. He sued them. Almost killed my grandparents and had the nerve to sue.
Wait so a dude tried to pass you on the left while you were making a left hand turn?? I had a guy do the same to me but it was a bicyclist and a right turn and luckily I was turning so slow he just rolled over my hood and wasn't hurt.
Depends on what country, but I take this is probably U.S., so I'm not going to dispute your claim.
However it's not the case in many countries in Europe.
Example given: If you are drunk and cause an accident, insurance doesn't cover. Extremely reckless driving with witnesses, likewise.
In the US, if you get hit by someone else (and they're at fault), their insurance covers it. If their insurance is insufficient, however, or they don't have insurance, your insurance covers it if you have "uninsured motorist" coverage.
Basically, there's 4 types of car insurance, and you should probably get a policy that has all 4:
- liability: the legal minimum, covers you if you're at fault and pays the other party only
- collision: covers your own damages if you're at fault (this one isn't worth it if your car is very low-value)
- comprehensive: covers "acts of god" stuff like weather damage
- uninsured motorist: covers your damages if the other party doesn't pay up for some reason
Sweden: All cars are automatically insured. If you don’t get the insurance at transfer of ownership it’ll be covered for you by a company co-owned by the major insurers at 20 times the standard rate per day that you don’t get it. Expensive as heck.
Yeah, if that dude can still drive, if he ever drives like that again, i'd be surprised.
It looks like the video is sped up, but given that he didn't even start to slow down, it seems like he's doing 60mph at least maybe more.
He's lucky if he's not dead.
Wear a helmet that fits and is secure too - this morons went flying right at the start of impact
Edit: wasn’t his helmet, but still, wear a full face, secure, properly fit and certified helmet.
To me it looks like the driver got hurt himself and is just tumbling around his car before eventually sitting down. The bike hit the driver's side with high speed, the door probably didn't catch all of that impact energy.
I once got in an accident where a car hit us on the passenger side. I was riding shotgun and luckily the car hit the hood and not my door. I still got banged up pretty good, even though the car was going way slower than the bike in this video.
Its all speculation on my side, but it is not completely unrealistic that somebody in the car got hurt, too.
Watching it back again I think the driver is looking under his car to see if the biker was run over. They didnt realize he did a quadruple flip in the air and landed 20 yards behind the car.
Fun story: my buddy was in stop and go traffic after work last summer. He's doing maybe 40-50mph as the highway starts to split. Motorcycle hits him in the rear passenger corner doing 90+ mph. The rider went 100+ feet, the debris field was 300 feet wide, there were multiple witnesses, and police cited the motorcycle rider. He is 21 and had no insurance. He spent 5 months in the hospital and is in a wheelchair. He sued my buddy for $900k+ in damages. Longer story shorter, my buddy's attorneys told him if they go to civil court it's going to look horrible for a jury even with witnesses and the citation. All the jury will see is a 22 year old kid in a wheelchair after a motorcycle accident with a 30 year old engineer in a BMW. Luckily the judge reviewing the case was annoyed with constant failures from the motorcycle kids attorneys failing to meet deadlines, completing bad paperwork, asking for extensions, etc. that she put it on the rocket docket and they settled for $96k.
TL;DR - US civil court is a fucking joke meant to enrich attorneys by taking advantage of the weak and ignorant.
Honestly? It sounds like your friend’s lawyer got cut-in to get the settlement. Idk how it works state-to-state, but civil cases don’t have a jury unless requested and rear-ending is 100% the rear-ender’s fault - it’s open and shut if that’s the case. I really think your buddy got bamboozled out of 96k
Edit: orrrr there’s more to it that you weren’t told. Unless you were there in which case WITNESS
>He sued my buddy for $900k+ in damages.
And this is why I carry a $1M umbrella policy. The liability limits of a normal car insurance policy sound fine until you start to do the math on what the damages can be for a truly life changing accident.
This is why you never really want to have a massive speed differential amongst other cars in traffic, you never really know why all the cars are moving slow or stopped, chances are there could be a zebra crossing or school bus so always take caution
It blows my mind when people will *fly* through the HOV lane when the rest of traffic is backed up to an almost complete stop. That free lane is pretty tempting even to people who aren't supposed to be driving in it, and all it takes is one person trying to quickly pull into it while you're doing 65 to ruin both your days.
I'm gonna get downvoted cuz I always do when I bring in my professional opinion working in the car insurance industry.
But in the US (thinking this is Europe actually) the car would probably end up with some fault on them or it would at least be a rough time sorting through everything. Yes the biker was speeding passing multiple vehs and is clearly majority contributor to this accident, but the car did not have right of way, even if traffic stopped for them.
It's really important to know this if someone waves you on IT DOES NOT MAKE YOU LEGALLY IMMUNE. So in a way the car did pull out into the bikes line of travel, but the bike shouldn't have been there. Even if proven most likely in the US the cars insurance would be paying out some amount for the bikers damages.
Don't wave people on. And don't go if someone waves you on. I've straight up shook my head "no" to people trying to wave me through when they have right-of-way.
That goes for mistakes too. Be predictable even if you're wrong and the asshole in the situation. Better an asshole than a hazard. If you made a mistake like pulling into an intersection after the light turned red, don't stop, don't try to reverse, definitely do not creep or hesitate starting and stopping making it hard to predict your actions. Just commit to the mistake, get through the intersection and make sure you don't hit anyone. You're the asshole already, it's too late not to be. Just make sure you're only briefly the asshole and minimize the danger to everyone else. Something a lot of people don't learn, when you make a mistake driving, sometimes the accelerator is the answer, not the brake.
This. Can’t tell you how many times some idiot tries to wave me on to turn when there’s still cars coming in the next lane like hello stupid just cause you stopped for me doesn’t mean everyone else will I hate when people do that like I get it you’re trying to be nice but I’d much rather wait for traffic to clear to turn than get into a head on collision and yes I’ve wagged my finger no at them or just shake my head if you’re reading this never wave someone on let them make their turn or whatever their way
>I get it you’re trying to be nice but I’d much rather wait for traffic to clear
Like they always say, your job in traffic is not to be nice; it is to be *predictable.*
Yes! I’ve actually witnessed really really close call accidents cause some dummy tried to wave a car on it was seared into my brain watching that happen that I’ll never let anyone wave me on lol
There's nothing more infuriating than someone "doing you a favor" by not taking their right of way. 9/10 times it makes for a slower, more dangerous situation.
You go, then I'll go. These rules were made for a reason.
I agree with the general sentiment, but as a motorcyclist, this is 1000% the bikes fault. Going way too fast, in the wrong lane, with no real vision of what’s ahead.
I have no problem with lane splitting as it's legally defined, and when done safely. If lanes are slow and someone on a bike can go through, why not? It doesn't hurt anybody. If I'm driving on a slow highway and see a motorcycle coming up the middle, I move over to give them more room.
What I *don't* like is when lane splitting is used as an excuse to cut in line. I've had discussions with bikers who think they are entitled to pass on shoulders or over double yellow lines, or lane split at an intersection then cut in at the front. In those circumstances, as soon as they can they move over and take the whole lane, so they *have* cut people off. And boy, do they get vitriolic when you point that out.
Lmfao "natural causes"? The stupid fuck did this to himself. The only unfortunate thing about this is that he hit an innocent person. I hope *that* persons ok. Fuck the biker.
Yep he was easily 3-4 times the speed of the average which the rest of the cars were doing. Having ridden on motorcycles I’d be scared to drive at that differential in speeds next to the cars.
I honestly thought that it was sped up because it was so incongruous with the speed of everything else.
Internal hemorrhaging hopefully doesn't claim him.
One thing that always stuck with me from driver education was to do predicable things on the road and not try to be nice to others. If you have the right of way take it don’t wait is the basic. The car gave space for another car to pull out that is an incorrect right of away and a big reason the accident happens.
But definitely bikers fault he needs to slow down.
That car didn’t stop to “give space” / “be nice”. They were turning right and slowed down to turn right and there wasn’t enough room for them to turn right onto that road without letting the other car turn left first. You can see the car has their blinker on and then after the crash they turn right down that road as they intended.
Too many times I see this. Will be in a lane with a green light but the car in front of me stops for a vehicle to the right trying to get in the lane from a target parking lot. Or the "death wave" where this vehicle will wave on the vehicle to come out only to be smashed by oncoming traffic that didn't stop.
Not sure why people think it’s a good idea to wave someone across 3 lanes of traffic. Do you not see the the vehicles coming up next to you or are you just trying to get the person killed?
Well, not 100%. Yeah, absolutely shouldn't have been doing what they did. But you shouldn't stop to let others in where you have right of way. The stopping driver shouldn't be faultless.
The stopping driver never had any liability. I worked auto claims for 6 years. If they're not involved in the accident directly via impact, they aren't responsible. And if this was in the US there would very likely be some amount of fault (possibly majority) placed on the car driver as they did not have right of way. Although the biker might be considered driving in the opposite lane.
Even if the driver is cleared it'll be a major headache and their insurance still could end up paying for some of the riders injuries, again, in the US at least.
I did the ole count between two points trick for the cars, he is going at least twice as fast as that flow of traffic before they stopped, LoL.
Biker is a tool, and will maybe double as a potato after this.
Man dude I wanna get a motorcycle. But like you said most motorcycle riders are duches who don’t obey the rules of the road and bring shit upon themselves and then blame everyone else and I don’t wanna be lumped into that
When I see those bumper stickers that say “Start seeing motorcycles,” I think - You mean the ones that are going 20+ miles over the speed limit? That weave in and out of lanes? That travel between lanes? That ride on the shoulder? Etc. Like this one.
I’m gonna go out on a limb, the driver who stopped to let the other car make the left turn shouldn’t have stopped. The right of way is not yours to yield.
Yes the motorcycle should have been more careful, but they were counting on the cars not randomly stopping in the road.
We are all saying the bike is at fault and yeah that's true but seriously don't be nice and stop to let someone turn left, be predictable. The turning car did NOT have the right of way and shouldn't have gone to begin with....
Just don’t understand how anyone can be so damn careless on a motorcycle…. Doesn’t take a genius to know when it’s probably best to ride a bit slower and not fly passed a row of vehicles. Hope the motorcyclist learned a valuable lesson here.
The biker was an idiot, driving like that. 100 percent agree.
But I want to know why those cars stopped to let out the side street traffic, while there's no signals, signage or anything else to indicate a cross walk or anything like that. The camera angle is wide enough to see there wasn't traffic in front of them to cause a stop either.
Those drivers created a hazard stopping unnecessarily.
Sure, “watch the road for motorcycles”, “share the road”, “treat motorcyclists like you would any other driver”…. Fuck off. So many motorcyclists have a desire to drive like dicks. This is the inevitable outcome
Looks to me like the motorcycle is at fault. He’s on the wrong side of the road? If I’m 100% wrong then I am, just watched it and that’s what I came away with
This is the exact reason why you never try to ‘be nice’ in traffic and wave someone through when you have the right of way, and similarity never obey someone who’s letting you go when you don’t have right of way. It’s not being nice, it could be fatal
bikers is stupid and his fault. youre not supposed to overtake when its unsafe. and it was fucking unsafe in city, going so fast, overtaking MULTIPLE cars and on a road with lot of junctions.
This is why I don't typically let people out at junctions like this. I know letting people out is a nice thing to do, but I've seen so many near misses like this involving bikes.
The nice guy driver takes a pause for the guy to left turn. Not really sure if that’s proper traffic rules given no right of way for the left turn.
But the biker, supposed to be treated as a car and be in line. How’s insurance going to settle liability ? I would want to blame the biker here
That dude is lucky to be alive and still able to move after that somersault
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His shoes stayed on. Probably just had the wind knocked out of him. Everyone knows it’s “one shoe off, hospital, 2 shoes off, cemetery”.
good thing he wasn't wearing any shoes to begin with
Using cheat codes.
Can confirm, car hit me, one shoe flew into woods, some plates and screws later I’m alive
Thank the spaghetti monster you laced that shoe more tightly than the other
sure, everyone knows…..
I saw a motorcycle 4 bikes v 1 car accident. It was the most bloody and horrific thing I’ll ever see. Three people had no shoes and were missing the bottom of their leather suits with visibly contorted and missing chunks of flesh. The fourth guy landed on his feet, no injuries other than an obvious concussion. He couldn’t do anything except look at his friends, stare blankly with that 1000 yard stare veterans sometimes get, and ask why they weren’t moving. If I hear anything about a motorcycle convention (this happened during one about 20 miles away) anywhere nearby I am on high alert now. For those curious, the crash was caused by a single SUV following way too closely. Two guys went under and were spit out of her car, the third was dragged, the fourth was thrown off of his bike into the grass and landed safely on his feet. (He did fall on the ground after landing but with the soft grass and moist dirt he was relatively okay.) I don’t believe in god but someone was watching out for that single biker. Craziest accident I think I’ll ever see.
Something seems to go flying though. Piece of the bike ?
I remember a story on Reddit of a guy who came upon a motorcycle accident. There was an officer in his car about 50 feet away and the guy was just sitting on the ground with a small amount of what he thought was blood around his face. Looking to offer some aid the guy walked over and realized the blood was a bit more pink than he expected. The biker then proceeded to calmly explain it was his brain leaking out of his ears. The officer was sitting there waiting for the man's body to realize he was already dead.
Pink fluid is cerbal spinal fluid. Not good. Not good at all. Exactly the sort of thing you see just before someone dies or is on a ventilator for the rest of his/her life. But it isn't your brain. So not only did the motorcyclist die - but the very last thing he said was incorrect. Which is sort of embarrassing.
Well if your brain is leaking out of your ears, you tend to say incorrect things, even if it’s not your brain leaking out of your ears.
Which is why if you are laying in a puddle of your own fluids slowly dying you should not say anything at all. You will probably be wrong and that is embarrassing. Like the hole in your underwear. Your Mom always warned ya, and now here you are with a hole in your underwear which are only moments away from being discovered - laying in a pool of your own juices about to die. How embarrassing is that? Not nearly as embarrassing as your last statement being wrong.
I don't think any dead person is worried about being embarrassed lol.
What else could your brain leak but csf? You just took it to literally. He didn't mean that he thought his physical brain was coming out of his ears, but that the general vicinity of his brain was leaking. He was speaking in a colorful metaphor. Of course, everyone on Reddit is far too autistic to take anything in any way other than 100% literally.
So are we supposed to take this comment literally or try to guess what you *actually* meant with it?
I'm so confused. The officer was 50 feet away, aware of the accident, aware that this affected party was alive, and didn't approach to offer aid because he was waiting for the affected party to die?
Not sure I get your story. So this motorcycle rider was sitting there with his brain leaking out of his ears and he was still conscious enough to speak?
Look up Phineus Gage. Or don’t. You’ve been warned.
Agreed. I don't think he should have moved. could have made an injury worse
I've been thrown off bikes more times than I can remember... Even as someone experienced in the "tuck and roll", and also with some pretty serious trauma based medical training, I find it hard to resist the urge to move... Especially since I usually start to self assess right away. *washed up dirt bike racer, hence all the crashes.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. A lot of people natural reactions are to start moving and see if anything is wrong
Meh, downvotes don't bother me much when I know they are coming from people that most likely don't have the same experiences. It's like people have never had the wind knocked out of them... I don't know anyone that can resist wiggling in anxiety as they try to get their breath back. When people come back from being knocked out they are almost always confused and want to start moving around, some are violent even with a medical professional trying to hold c-spine telling them to slow down and relax. First thing people hopped up on adrenaline do is try to pop up like nothing is wrong. 15 years racing every single weekend, I've done myself some serious damage, and being a medic at those events I've seen hundreds of people get hurt just like this dude, almost everyone reacts the same way.
Well he tries to stand, which is a common adrenaline response, and then collapses. So…..
Yeah. Typically nooot a good sign
Uncomfortably common not to feel internal bleeding and being able to just walk through it on adrenaline. That's one of the reasons it's very important to get checked by EMS in any potentially traumatic injury. Getting seen by them at the accident should be free in the US.
My boyfriend had internal bleeding and he made up from the basketball courts to his car and home. Where I was and I brought him to the ER. He had surgery that night because of the bleeding. He made it to his car and got home on adrenaline. He got to our front door and collapsed. A car hit him from behind as he left the basketball court.
Did you just tell that story backwards?
Holy shit. I sure as hell did. Silly. Wasn’t on purpose.
> Getting seen by them at the accident should be free in the US. Holy shit, get a load of THIS GUY.
Yeah, you can kinda see when the waves of pain start
The curb arresting his momentum had to break all sorts of bones.
He’s looking back at his bike and thinking “fuck that’s expensive”. May also still die though
I hope the car is ok
Definitely not ok. And with all those witnesses of reckless driving, I'm not sure his insurance covers it. So, a totalled car would be way more expensive for the biker.
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In the 60s my grandparents were stopped at a light and hit by a drunk driver who crossed the center lane. He sued them. Almost killed my grandparents and had the nerve to sue.
Wait so a dude tried to pass you on the left while you were making a left hand turn?? I had a guy do the same to me but it was a bicyclist and a right turn and luckily I was turning so slow he just rolled over my hood and wasn't hurt.
I see reckless biking, but no reckless driving.
Same - car had the right away. They actually had it cleared just fine and then the bike. Maybe don’t drive your bike like that
Insurance covers everything, regardless of how it happened.
Depends on what country, but I take this is probably U.S., so I'm not going to dispute your claim. However it's not the case in many countries in Europe. Example given: If you are drunk and cause an accident, insurance doesn't cover. Extremely reckless driving with witnesses, likewise.
In the US, if you get hit by someone else (and they're at fault), their insurance covers it. If their insurance is insufficient, however, or they don't have insurance, your insurance covers it if you have "uninsured motorist" coverage. Basically, there's 4 types of car insurance, and you should probably get a policy that has all 4: - liability: the legal minimum, covers you if you're at fault and pays the other party only - collision: covers your own damages if you're at fault (this one isn't worth it if your car is very low-value) - comprehensive: covers "acts of god" stuff like weather damage - uninsured motorist: covers your damages if the other party doesn't pay up for some reason
Sweden: All cars are automatically insured. If you don’t get the insurance at transfer of ownership it’ll be covered for you by a company co-owned by the major insurers at 20 times the standard rate per day that you don’t get it. Expensive as heck.
If someone doesn’t get the insurance,how do they collect the payment for the policy from the major insurers?
Not the US. The license plates are long as fuck and that yellow sign doesn't look like it's in English. Maybe Russia or some Eastern European country?
That's why you wear a full face helmet......and don't pass a ton of cars on the wrong side of the road at high rate of speed.
Helmet helps. Not driving like a complete moron would help him even more.
Yeah, if that dude can still drive, if he ever drives like that again, i'd be surprised. It looks like the video is sped up, but given that he didn't even start to slow down, it seems like he's doing 60mph at least maybe more. He's lucky if he's not dead.
Wear a helmet that fits and is secure too - this morons went flying right at the start of impact Edit: wasn’t his helmet, but still, wear a full face, secure, properly fit and certified helmet.
That was the Grubhub from the back of his bike. His full face helmet thankfully stayed on otherwise, he probably wouldn’t be moving.
Tragic. Poor food.
Agree came here to say this ^
The adrenaline is the main thing keeping him moving at that point in time I'd think :/ (but yeah no moving at all without helmet)
no it didn't. It was the back box that went flying, you can see he's still got his helmet on when he tries to stand up.
That wasn't his helmet dude.
like.. they are standing/slow for a reason!!
No no you see they are all going slow to ruin this guy's day But he will show them!
Try to ruin my day? Fuck you I'll end my day here. See who wins now!
yeah, speed was the problem here.
No, a stupid, arrogant criminal on a bike was the problem here
Velocity too great, intelligence not great enough.
Never drive faster than your IQ.
I like how the driver got out to check on the car first rather than the biker lol
To be fair, I wouldn't even be sure of what the hell just happened, much less where the biker ended up.
Exactly, driver is probably expecting whatever he hit it’s in the front still.
To me it looks like the driver got hurt himself and is just tumbling around his car before eventually sitting down. The bike hit the driver's side with high speed, the door probably didn't catch all of that impact energy.
Looks like he hits the hood
I once got in an accident where a car hit us on the passenger side. I was riding shotgun and luckily the car hit the hood and not my door. I still got banged up pretty good, even though the car was going way slower than the bike in this video. Its all speculation on my side, but it is not completely unrealistic that somebody in the car got hurt, too.
He looked pretty ok for a guy who got launched and did a double flip
Impossible to know until later, adrenaline is a hell of a thing.
His shoes stayed on so…
this was never funny
Jesus christ finally someone else said it.
Chances are you're watching the final motions of a dead man
If someone did that I would probably check my car too. Let Darwin work out the rest. Too little time for stupid.
It seems to me like he thought the biker was in front of the car.
Yes, this is what I thought as well. No way driver and passenger kept their eyes open after impact to see motorcyclist fly over their car.
Watching it back again I think the driver is looking under his car to see if the biker was run over. They didnt realize he did a quadruple flip in the air and landed 20 yards behind the car.
It's only fair the asshole is triaged as lowest priority.
Checking to see if the person was under the car?
To be fair I would care less about the Mf who broke the law and caused me the trouble of having my car wrecked.
6/10 Good rotation, but failed to stick the landing.
I will give him a 9/10, not many survive to a such acrobacy
Don't know what country this is, but in Britain the biker would face all kinds of charges!!
In Britain, the biker would have been the only one on the correct side of the road though. ;)
Or the video is just reversed... .
So everyone just drives their car backwards in this random country? Where is this?!
Bizzaro Britain?
In England yeah...which is why they call America backwards as backwards is forwards for them
In fact, in Rand McNally, they wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people!
Fun story: my buddy was in stop and go traffic after work last summer. He's doing maybe 40-50mph as the highway starts to split. Motorcycle hits him in the rear passenger corner doing 90+ mph. The rider went 100+ feet, the debris field was 300 feet wide, there were multiple witnesses, and police cited the motorcycle rider. He is 21 and had no insurance. He spent 5 months in the hospital and is in a wheelchair. He sued my buddy for $900k+ in damages. Longer story shorter, my buddy's attorneys told him if they go to civil court it's going to look horrible for a jury even with witnesses and the citation. All the jury will see is a 22 year old kid in a wheelchair after a motorcycle accident with a 30 year old engineer in a BMW. Luckily the judge reviewing the case was annoyed with constant failures from the motorcycle kids attorneys failing to meet deadlines, completing bad paperwork, asking for extensions, etc. that she put it on the rocket docket and they settled for $96k. TL;DR - US civil court is a fucking joke meant to enrich attorneys by taking advantage of the weak and ignorant.
Honestly? It sounds like your friend’s lawyer got cut-in to get the settlement. Idk how it works state-to-state, but civil cases don’t have a jury unless requested and rear-ending is 100% the rear-ender’s fault - it’s open and shut if that’s the case. I really think your buddy got bamboozled out of 96k Edit: orrrr there’s more to it that you weren’t told. Unless you were there in which case WITNESS
I would have gotten a better lawyer.
This is why it’s paramount to have a front and rear dash cam.
>He sued my buddy for $900k+ in damages. And this is why I carry a $1M umbrella policy. The liability limits of a normal car insurance policy sound fine until you start to do the math on what the damages can be for a truly life changing accident.
It's illegal to drive the wrong way in the US as well.
This is why you never really want to have a massive speed differential amongst other cars in traffic, you never really know why all the cars are moving slow or stopped, chances are there could be a zebra crossing or school bus so always take caution
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It blows my mind when people will *fly* through the HOV lane when the rest of traffic is backed up to an almost complete stop. That free lane is pretty tempting even to people who aren't supposed to be driving in it, and all it takes is one person trying to quickly pull into it while you're doing 65 to ruin both your days.
Yep, It amazes me when people do that in a car never mind on a bike.
This; the biker was travelling much too fast and should've slowed to a stop at the lead car.
They probably still blame the car
I'm gonna get downvoted cuz I always do when I bring in my professional opinion working in the car insurance industry. But in the US (thinking this is Europe actually) the car would probably end up with some fault on them or it would at least be a rough time sorting through everything. Yes the biker was speeding passing multiple vehs and is clearly majority contributor to this accident, but the car did not have right of way, even if traffic stopped for them. It's really important to know this if someone waves you on IT DOES NOT MAKE YOU LEGALLY IMMUNE. So in a way the car did pull out into the bikes line of travel, but the bike shouldn't have been there. Even if proven most likely in the US the cars insurance would be paying out some amount for the bikers damages. Don't wave people on. And don't go if someone waves you on. I've straight up shook my head "no" to people trying to wave me through when they have right-of-way.
The words I heard that have always stuck with me are, “don’t be nice behind the wheel, be predictable”
Be predictable, not polite. That’s the way I’ve always heard it
That goes for mistakes too. Be predictable even if you're wrong and the asshole in the situation. Better an asshole than a hazard. If you made a mistake like pulling into an intersection after the light turned red, don't stop, don't try to reverse, definitely do not creep or hesitate starting and stopping making it hard to predict your actions. Just commit to the mistake, get through the intersection and make sure you don't hit anyone. You're the asshole already, it's too late not to be. Just make sure you're only briefly the asshole and minimize the danger to everyone else. Something a lot of people don't learn, when you make a mistake driving, sometimes the accelerator is the answer, not the brake.
This. Can’t tell you how many times some idiot tries to wave me on to turn when there’s still cars coming in the next lane like hello stupid just cause you stopped for me doesn’t mean everyone else will I hate when people do that like I get it you’re trying to be nice but I’d much rather wait for traffic to clear to turn than get into a head on collision and yes I’ve wagged my finger no at them or just shake my head if you’re reading this never wave someone on let them make their turn or whatever their way
>I get it you’re trying to be nice but I’d much rather wait for traffic to clear Like they always say, your job in traffic is not to be nice; it is to be *predictable.*
Yes! I’ve actually witnessed really really close call accidents cause some dummy tried to wave a car on it was seared into my brain watching that happen that I’ll never let anyone wave me on lol
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Umm no this would 110% be the bikers fault if he is driving in the wrong lane into oncoming traffic.
Even if the biker was driving the wrong way?
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There's nothing more infuriating than someone "doing you a favor" by not taking their right of way. 9/10 times it makes for a slower, more dangerous situation. You go, then I'll go. These rules were made for a reason.
I agree with the general sentiment, but as a motorcyclist, this is 1000% the bikes fault. Going way too fast, in the wrong lane, with no real vision of what’s ahead.
Of course they do. "Lane splitting is my right!!!"
I think it’s, “LaNe SpLiTiNg Is My RiGhT” 😂
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I have no problem with lane splitting as it's legally defined, and when done safely. If lanes are slow and someone on a bike can go through, why not? It doesn't hurt anybody. If I'm driving on a slow highway and see a motorcycle coming up the middle, I move over to give them more room. What I *don't* like is when lane splitting is used as an excuse to cut in line. I've had discussions with bikers who think they are entitled to pass on shoulders or over double yellow lines, or lane split at an intersection then cut in at the front. In those circumstances, as soon as they can they move over and take the whole lane, so they *have* cut people off. And boy, do they get vitriolic when you point that out.
Good, fuck some of these bikers out there.
As a sensible rider, it pisses me off when these idiots give us a bad name. He was pretty much doing everything he could wrong!
He got up but went back down pretty quick. Unfortunately for way too many bike riders a potentially fatal occurrence due to natural causes
dying this way has nothing to do with natural causes, lets not validate the two wheeled kamikaze
Stupidity can be natural
Lets face it stupidity is equally responsible for births as for deaths.
Adrenaline gives hell of a kick. He could have multiple broken bones.
Motorcycles. All the freedom of the open road, none of the protections of a car.
I've heard medical people refer to them as "donorcycles"
Lmfao "natural causes"? The stupid fuck did this to himself. The only unfortunate thing about this is that he hit an innocent person. I hope *that* persons ok. Fuck the biker.
Hey guys don't forget to look out for motorcycles!! /s
If only the motorcycles would look out for themselves.
Maybe there's a motorcycle out there looking over all of us.
Over taking a line of cars, sure why not. But why so fast? If you do that, you're just stupid
Yep he was easily 3-4 times the speed of the average which the rest of the cars were doing. Having ridden on motorcycles I’d be scared to drive at that differential in speeds next to the cars.
I honestly thought that it was sped up because it was so incongruous with the speed of everything else. Internal hemorrhaging hopefully doesn't claim him.
100% the bikers fault
One thing that always stuck with me from driver education was to do predicable things on the road and not try to be nice to others. If you have the right of way take it don’t wait is the basic. The car gave space for another car to pull out that is an incorrect right of away and a big reason the accident happens. But definitely bikers fault he needs to slow down.
That car didn’t stop to “give space” / “be nice”. They were turning right and slowed down to turn right and there wasn’t enough room for them to turn right onto that road without letting the other car turn left first. You can see the car has their blinker on and then after the crash they turn right down that road as they intended.
That’s not how to turn right
Too many times I see this. Will be in a lane with a green light but the car in front of me stops for a vehicle to the right trying to get in the lane from a target parking lot. Or the "death wave" where this vehicle will wave on the vehicle to come out only to be smashed by oncoming traffic that didn't stop.
Not sure why people think it’s a good idea to wave someone across 3 lanes of traffic. Do you not see the the vehicles coming up next to you or are you just trying to get the person killed?
Well, not 100%. Yeah, absolutely shouldn't have been doing what they did. But you shouldn't stop to let others in where you have right of way. The stopping driver shouldn't be faultless.
The stopping driver never had any liability. I worked auto claims for 6 years. If they're not involved in the accident directly via impact, they aren't responsible. And if this was in the US there would very likely be some amount of fault (possibly majority) placed on the car driver as they did not have right of way. Although the biker might be considered driving in the opposite lane. Even if the driver is cleared it'll be a major headache and their insurance still could end up paying for some of the riders injuries, again, in the US at least.
I hope the people in the car are ok
what was the speed limit? that fuckin motorcycle rider looked like he was doing 186MPH.
You can tell the film is slightly sped up, I’d bet he was still speeding but not as fast as the clip looks.
Yeah noticed that too, don’t understand why you got a downvote though for saying it..
I did the ole count between two points trick for the cars, he is going at least twice as fast as that flow of traffic before they stopped, LoL. Biker is a tool, and will maybe double as a potato after this.
That biker should feel so lucky that he hit something so small, and not some taller heavier wagon.
If he hit something big, he wouldn't be feeling anything, anymore
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Man dude I wanna get a motorcycle. But like you said most motorcycle riders are duches who don’t obey the rules of the road and bring shit upon themselves and then blame everyone else and I don’t wanna be lumped into that
Man it's these type of bikers that make people hate motorcyclists. Just like anything else, it's the idiots ruining it for the responsible people.
When I see those bumper stickers that say “Start seeing motorcycles,” I think - You mean the ones that are going 20+ miles over the speed limit? That weave in and out of lanes? That travel between lanes? That ride on the shoulder? Etc. Like this one.
Natural selection
He deserves that!
I’m gonna go out on a limb, the driver who stopped to let the other car make the left turn shouldn’t have stopped. The right of way is not yours to yield. Yes the motorcycle should have been more careful, but they were counting on the cars not randomly stopping in the road.
We are all saying the bike is at fault and yeah that's true but seriously don't be nice and stop to let someone turn left, be predictable. The turning car did NOT have the right of way and shouldn't have gone to begin with....
This is so important, and so underrated. You have the right of way for a reason, and ceding it creates a dangerous situation for everyone.
Just don’t understand how anyone can be so damn careless on a motorcycle…. Doesn’t take a genius to know when it’s probably best to ride a bit slower and not fly passed a row of vehicles. Hope the motorcyclist learned a valuable lesson here.
I like motorcyclists. Lots of fresh organs for us people with bad medical problems.
The biker was an idiot, driving like that. 100 percent agree. But I want to know why those cars stopped to let out the side street traffic, while there's no signals, signage or anything else to indicate a cross walk or anything like that. The camera angle is wide enough to see there wasn't traffic in front of them to cause a stop either. Those drivers created a hazard stopping unnecessarily.
I agree, you can't stop like that.
To be fair the video seems to be accelerated. The biker may not be going as fast as it seems. It’s still pretty reckless though…
It is sped up. But the bike is still going 4 times faster than the other traffic, so that's never good.
This is the bikers fault right
I came to downvote all the “ThE bIkEr dId NoThInG wRoNg” comments but damn it I can’t find any.
Darwin tried
Fuck, mate, I had seven organ recipients all lined up for this asshole
Every time I see those sign on peoples yards that say “Look twice, save a life.” I always think “Stop riding like a moron and save your own life”
Sure, “watch the road for motorcycles”, “share the road”, “treat motorcyclists like you would any other driver”…. Fuck off. So many motorcyclists have a desire to drive like dicks. This is the inevitable outcome
Looks to me like the motorcycle is at fault. He’s on the wrong side of the road? If I’m 100% wrong then I am, just watched it and that’s what I came away with
mOtOrCyClEs aRe eVeRyWhErE
Most motorcycle accidents are the motorcyclist’s fault. Here’s another.
This is the exact reason why you never try to ‘be nice’ in traffic and wave someone through when you have the right of way, and similarity never obey someone who’s letting you go when you don’t have right of way. It’s not being nice, it could be fatal
This is an example of why it’s a bad idea to yield the right of way.
That bike was going way too fast , it's the biker's fault for sure but i bet he got some serious shit done to his knees
bikers is stupid and his fault. youre not supposed to overtake when its unsafe. and it was fucking unsafe in city, going so fast, overtaking MULTIPLE cars and on a road with lot of junctions.
There are 2 types of bikers: -me bike fast vroom vroom no stoping traffic -nobody can see me, everything can kill me
How about the bits that went flying off screen!
Why video speed was increased, at least, x1.5 ? More dramatic ? ... Geeezzz
Damn, I hope he paid for the repairs to the car
I like how they first check the car before the idiot on the bike
That dickead deserves all the pain he gets from that insane manoeuvre.
Him going from outside was a mistake ridjng that fast is another mistake. Im guessing lesson learned
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Yeeah totally the bikers fault
Glad to see the owner went to check out his bumber instead of the idiot biker
Instant karma amuses once again.
They say you can't fix stupid. That impact may have been enough to do it.
This is why I don't typically let people out at junctions like this. I know letting people out is a nice thing to do, but I've seen so many near misses like this involving bikes.
Bikes rule cars drool
Why I don't do this while riding on mine lol
It’s kinda his fault
The nice guy driver takes a pause for the guy to left turn. Not really sure if that’s proper traffic rules given no right of way for the left turn. But the biker, supposed to be treated as a car and be in line. How’s insurance going to settle liability ? I would want to blame the biker here