WARNING: Motorcyclist survives terrifying crash in Australia

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I had one them in April of 68. A 440 Belvedere hit me from behind. He was doing over 110mph and I at 50mph. Almost killed me. I flew well over 80 ft, literately knocked me outta my boots, smashed my Bell helmet. The Belvedere went end of end a few times. One guy in the car road it out straddling the hood and got a small scratch. I was the only one the ambulance took away. I was off crutches and skiing by November. Amazing what your body can go through when your young - But you feel in your old age.

LUCKY Rider there but bet he's in a cast and on crutches for awhile.

There are Drivers out there that just don't see Motorcyclists. Ride a motorcycle like every car is going to hit you and Paint your ride FLAME Red ;o)
 
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The traffic lights 100m from my house have almost that every send time I go there. People blowing the Orange light constantly because sometimes it takes 3 or 4 light changes to get through it. They recently added red arrows so pedestrians get more crossing time and now it's way worse because those pedestrian crossing red arrows stopping cars have slowed throughput for cars. It's downright scary when traffic is heavy. nutjobs will look you in the eye and blow the orange light at speed.
 
Bloody hell, I know that intersection! Corner of Riversdale Rd and Trafalgar Rd in Camberwell. When I lived in Melbourne, I had a girlfriend who lived a few blocks away in East Hawthorn. She used to go to a dental clinic on that corner. I remember dropping her off for a dentist appointment and waiting in the car for her, parked on the side of the road a little way back from that intersection, watching all the near misses.

It's interesting to analyse these things. There's a lot of information just in that short video clip. I think those traffic lights have green arrows, so either the car or bike could have had right of way depending on the phase of the lights. But I reckon the bike rider probably had the green light because a silver/grey car went straight through in the same direction moments ahead of him. I also noticed that the impact car didn't have his indicator on, so the poor biker had no warning.

It's a good advertisement for wearing appropriate riding gear. He was in shorts, T-shirt and inadequate shoes. At least he appeared to have gloves on. I know his shoes were inadequate because they were the first things to come off. One of them flew off vertically straight up above the overhead tram wires, out of frame and didn't reappear, the other landed in front of the camera car. The bare soles of his feet were the first parts of his body to hit the ground, followed by elbows, shoulders and back. He may have suffered a lot of skin damage that could have been avoided if he'd been wearing riding gear with armour.

His reactions seemed pretty good though. If you look frame by frame, he already had a handful of front brake when he came into shot because his front suspension was compressed, and his rear wheel was off the ground all of the way across the intersection. Scrubbing off as much speed as possible would have reduced the severity of the impact. So he did as well as he could under the circumstances. Apparently he's OK. Just minor injuries.

My first ever motorcycle crash when I was 17 years old was an identical scenario. A car turned across my path at an intersection just like that. I got a busted arm and smashed knee out of it (it's why I now have an artificial knee joint). It all happened so fast that I don't think I had time to grab the front brake. I think I just froze on the bike and waited for the impact. So the guy in the video did better than me. But at least I was wearing clothes that covered my skin and my motorcycle boots stayed on.

The best advice I ever got when I was a learner motorcyclist was "always assume you're invisible to other motorists".
 
I just don't understand the reluctance and pure laziness of not using blinkers, or the stupidity of some models of vehicles with virtually invisible blinkers. The latest purity of design is clear lenses that blend in with orange bulbs that are really hard to see. The latest craze I have noticed is using blinkers but only turning them on 2 seconds before turning. Does my head in such stupidity. At least Audi has seen the light with their cascading LED blinkers, brilliantly observable.
 
Whilst not wishing to absolve the car driver from the blame, as they were turning across the flow of traffic, the bike rider does seem to have ignored the primary rule of self-preservation. I’m not sure what the speed limit is on that road but his approach speed seems a lot faster than other traffic was travelling. Then not to be wearing proper protective clothing when engaged in a moderately high risk activity is demonstrating a level of Darwinism difficult to ignore. I reckon in the UK the car driver’s insurer/lawyer would be arguing contributory negligence on the part of the rider, whether or not the car driver is at fault.
However, I hope the rider makes a full recovery and isn’t totally put off riding bikes In the future.
 
Andy J said:
Whilst not wishing to absolve the car driver from the blame, as they were turning across the flow of traffic, the bike rider does seem to have ignored the primary rule of self-preservation. I’m not sure what the speed limit is on that road but his approach speed seems a lot faster than other traffic was travelling. Then not to be wearing proper protective clothing when engaged in a moderately high risk activity is demonstrating a level of Darwinism difficult to ignore. I reckon in the UK the car driver’s insurer/lawyer would be arguing contributory negligence on the part of the rider, whether or not the car driver is at fault.
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Falls into the same category as asking a rape victim "What were you wearing?"
It's simple 'victim blaming', as far as I see it.
 
What we have locally is your trying to make a turn across traffic at the lights, the light goes orange and they just keep coming even when its red dickheads keep coming and your sitting mid intersection which is legal but once the light goes orange you should be able to clear the intersection and do your turn. These orange and red light runners will look you in the eyes and run right over you to save 3 minutes for another light change. And that's why we have red light cameras everywhere and plenty of accidents as well.
 
Also know the intersection well. I hit a cop car about 1km from there in 1974 :-O

The guy seems to be going well over the speed limit. Hadn't noticed the crap clothing he was wearing, but that's genuine stupidity. Totally agree, assume every driver is going to kill you - so why fly through a city intersection with cars in the turn lane. Anyone tell what kind of. moto it was?
 
sure enough the car driver is an idiot both before and (bizarely) afterwards, but he motorcyclist is his own worst enemy, if he is not properly dressed with apropriate PPE, (Hamish does that a lot, trainers, jeans, shorts and tee shirt even, which wont help him if he gets rear ended when stationary, happened to me in a lay bye, broken leg) he is also going too fast, and shows no caution whatosever at a busy junction, he could have avoided that crash and maybe lost a bit of "face" doing it, by going slower and BEING READY avoidance/survival is better than what he got..
CLEM
 
helicopterjim said:
You think she wishes she had worn track pants instead of a miniskirt?

Jim
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Maybe, Jim, but it'd be way down the list.
Below burning his nuts off with a lit cigarette.

Blame the guilty, not their victims?

The number of times I hear on the News "X motorists killed by the weather."
Particularly, in the UK, numbnuts go out in a blizzard, without much fuel, no hot drinks, no warm clothes, no blankets, no shovel, no idea how to drive even in decent weather.
No sympathy!
You know how it is in aviation?
Shit happens = pilot's fault.
No-one ever asks if the passengers were wearing appropriate clothing.
 
The Sock said:
You know how it is in aviation?
Shit happens = pilot's fault.
No-one ever asks if the passengers were wearing appropriate clothing.
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I hear you loud and clear. For bush pilots we have another one. Always wear what you would walk home in! Never had to use it but if I wasn't wearing it it was close by in a bag. Of course the bag could be consumed in the post-crash fire and then I would be the idiot again.

Jim
 
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