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My accident and a worthwhile read

deMort

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Accidents happen but to a biker it can be serious ..

i had my first accident in over 30 years of driveing last april .. driver didnt look and see me .. i have no malice but it would have been nice if she ever acknowledged she was to blame .. or indeed said sorry .. she didnt , even after prosecuted for undue care and attention .

just a read anyways as its coming to the anniversary of my accident .

My ass is still sore .. not sure thats to do with the accident though .. a little slippet for Phil to comment on there :D

http://www.wemoto.com/news/article/...-71475745&mc_cid=df51d4d1dc&mc_eid=a648b9d68d
 
Hi mate
I'm sorry to hear about your accident. Although my brother can walk, be is considered disabled due to a bike accident. He just can't walk very far, so gets the blue badge. So I can empathise with your bum.
Not that I'm trying to excuse her behaviour, but I'll add to the above. Prior to the 911 we had a 2010 VW Touareg. Great car, comfortable with all the right toys. The issue i had with it was that the A pillar and mirror could hide an E Class Merc at the right angle. I got sick of having near misses at roundabouts. A motorbike could easily be made invisible.
Do you think that current designs could have contributed to your accident?
 
Iain , firstly let me say how pleased I am you made a full recovery with the exception of some buttock discomfort :grin: may I suggest a thick coating of waxoyle may be the remidy :D I can give you the number of a professional who would be happy to apply it for you :) you might know her as I am sure she told me she was an indy .

I read the whole of that link and was surprised that all the comments seemed to be from bikers then I realised it was a bike site :floor: but a very interesting study quite worrying as well. the bit I dont get is whichever way you apply the logic is would also inc pedestrians in the road so why do we see a person but not a person on a shiney machine :?: :?:
 
FZP said:
Hi mate
I'm sorry to hear about your accident. Although my brother can walk, be is considered disabled due to a bike accident. He just can't walk very far, so gets the blue badge. So I can empathise with your bum.
Not that I'm trying to excuse her behaviour, but I'll add to the above. Prior to the 911 we had a 2010 VW Touareg. Great car, comfortable with all the right toys. The issue i had with it was that the A pillar and mirror could hide an E Class Merc at the right angle. I got sick of having near misses at roundabouts. A motorbike could easily be made invisible.
Do you think that current designs could have contributed to your accident?

On a serious note the A pillars are an issue on lots of cars and the glare from the sun why are cars not fitted with reacalite glass :?:
 
I do actually think that modern car design and equipment are causing issues of visibility to drivers, some of the A, B and C pillars on new cars are absolutely massive, obviously better for driver safety, but not good for visibility. Same goes for new lighting systems, sometimes I simply can`t see an indicator on some modern LED/Clear lens cars if they are at the wrong angle to my line of sight.............Don`t even get me started on those new LED headlights that simply blind oncoming drivers :nooo:

I agree with one of the commenters on that article : I assume everyone else on the road is out to kill me and it is my job to stop that from happening by driving defensively :grin:

Have you tried vaseline on your bunghole Demort :?:
 
yes driving in a modern safe car isn't always easy, being dazzled is awful, it happens a lot, and the pillars are too thick, plus there are too many things going on inside the cab, take my van for example, you cant turn the radio off, you can turn it down, you can turn off the screen. but stop and then start the car again and on it comes when i don't want it on, i have to turn it down and turn off the screen again, same with the teletrac navman, its as bright as hell, you have to keep turning it on and off, there is no actual off, another thing that is ludicrous, if i want to listen to the radio, i have to have the engine running, its a 17 plate berlingo, its got this nonsense called hill assist, its not assisting me its just bugging me, the indicator and a buzzer on the screen keeps telling me there is ice when its 5 degrees outside, the dab radio is so useless its like the very early days of radio, if i dare forget my seatbelt for 1 second it fkin screams at me, the satnav asks if i am a passenger or driver, its totally pathetic

as i say, too much going on, i just want to drive it, i will be relieved when the lease is up, might hunt down an old basic vehicle,

rant over. :thumb:
 
I was a road biker for about 10years and had so many near misses it was unreal. It's unbelievable how many people do not see you. I too was knocked of but there was some low sun to blame.

I've given up road biking because of the risk, I totally trusted myself on a bike but no one else on the road and with a young family it's not worth the risk IMO.
 
I packed in road riding a few years back too. Once I got the track day bug my road riding became more and more de valued pleasure wise. And yes, at times it felt dangerous. Not to mention the license losing potential if, like me, superbikes are your thang.

Agree also that you concentrate much, much more on your surroundings and perceptions when riding. You notice how shoite women drivers are. Their road positioning and space awareness is nothing short of shocking. I always had a 'woman alert' claxon in my head when wondering their next move.
 
Morning Demort _ i feel for you; got knocked off a couple of times myself. Sadly I have a smashed up right knee and can no longer ride - so sold my bike a few years back now.

I used to be a member of my local RoSPA group and I remember going to an education evening all about bling spots in cars and it was frightening.

Ride like you re invisible - truer words! Some of the riding and driving I see today is shocking. I was at behind a young lass on a scooter on Sunday morning who was weaving in and out of traffic and so close (on hills) to the car in front that i was screaming in my head about how she rode.

Stay safe Demort - hope you arse gets better soon (i'm sure Phil can brush on and massage-in the medication for you :thumb: )

Osh
 
Feel for any rider. I was a super fit cyclist, just for fun, cycled over 200 miles a week, just because I could. Had a pursuit bike, think big wheel/small wheel, Olympic track style from yester year.

K381 PLW = WHITE FORD ESCORT. = Untraced driver via the MIB and police

Hit me from the rear, ran me over while still attached to the bike, broke my back and so so lucky to be walking. I actually turned around while riding as I knew from the sound he was way too close to me and watched him actually hit me. He stopped about 50 yards up the road then realised I was alive and just drove off

Never cycled for 10 years but now use a Felt B10 and CBoardman 29er.

Still cycling has never been fun since and I no longer have any passion for it. May the ***** rot in hell for ever

Oh and finally, I am told I will suffer when I get even older....arthritis. OH JOY !
 
I hope the recovery continues Demort :thumb:

10 years ago one of my best mates was in the process of selling a business he had built from scratch (specialist Marine Insurance brokers) and "retiring" at 40. He treated himself to a sports bike, picked it up on a Thursday evening having not ridden a motorcycle for 20 years........ On the Friday afternoon, 1/2 mile from his house an uninsured driver pulled out of a side street and left him nowhere to go........ The driver did not stop but fortunately a passing A&E Trauma Nurse did, saved his life as he would have bled to death but he lost his right leg above the knee.
Even though the driver was not insured he got a 7 figure payout but he was already a wealthy man......he has never been the same since, all the money in the world can't buy that leg back and he has spent the last 10 years in constant pain, no steady relationship and drinking. A shadow of the man he was.

The police actually caught the guy driving, he was well known to them and ended up admitting he had been on a "drug run" at the time which is why he did not stop. He lost his licence for 12 months, a small fine and no jail time.

It is a sad story but a constant reminder of how things can change in an instant..... be safe :wink:
 
FRP said:
Feel for any rider. I was a super fit cyclist, just for fun, cycled over 200 miles a week, just because I could. Had a pursuit bike, think big wheel/small wheel, Olympic track style from yester year.

K381 PLW = WHITE FORD ESCORT. = Untraced driver via the MIB and police

Hit me from the rear, ran me over while still attached to the bike, broke my back and so so lucky to be walking. I actually turned around while riding as I knew from the sound he was way too close to me and watched him actually hit me. He stopped about 50 yards up the road then realised I was alive and just drove off

Never cycled for 10 years but now use a Felt B10 and CBoardman 29er.

Still cycling has never been fun since and I no longer have any passion for it. May the ***** rot in hell for ever

Oh and finally, I am told I will suffer when I get even older....arthritis. OH JOY !

I assume the driver wasn't found etc? .. Frustrating.


Fortunately I've never been in a serious car accident, but I am always paranoid when driving and have had a few close shaves.
 
Jay correct, never traced.........
 
infrasilver said:
I've always said that everyone should be made to ride a bike before driving a car. I am super aware of everything around me on the road and it all goes back to my riding days.

Me too. I actually went on a speed awareness course a number of years back and on it they played a video from a dashcam of a car driving through a town to see if everyone could spot any hazards. I was the only one who spotted them all and from the name of a pub the car drove past I had even worked out the town it was filmed in.

I find im usually able to predict what other drivers are going to do before they do it. But even so ive been knocked off my bike a couple of times in the past. Once was an identical situation to the OP. Woman driver coming out of side road, im on my bike. She stopped, actually gets eye contact with me. Then as im virtually level she pulls straight out in front of me. Bang. She then claimed not to have seen me. She admitted liability straight away, but by the time it went through her Insurance she had changed her tune. Ended up as a 50/50 settlement after year of haggling.
 

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