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<blockquote data-quote="James Burleigh" data-source="post: 703967" data-attributes="member: 4162"><p>I no longer accept at face value in reading about an accident that 'another car came out of nowhere and slaughter an innocent motorcyclist.' Too often I fear the motorcyclist was a principle cause of the accident. And in fact statistics bear this out--viz., that motorcyclists are a principle contributing factor in their own deaths. This includes, as you say, ability to execute evasive action.</p><p></p><p>For example, we recently had an accident here on the very same road I wrote about in a recent edition of <a href="https://www.fjrforum.com/forum//index.php?showtopic=125875" target="_blank">California Commuter Chronicles</a>. It was a young man (a "kid") on a sport bike who must have gunned it off the previous intersection after the light changed and, carrying too much speed and not having had the proper experience and training, could not respond to a car turning left across his path into a shopping center (I ride past the dried, wilting flowers at the spot every day). What did he do? Brake? Swerve? No. He tried to bail off the machine. Never mind that he should have anticipated such issues in an urban environment and never carried so much speed.</p><p></p><p>And how can we blame a driver for behaving responsibly but not realizing or anticipating that the bike is actually going 1.3 or 1.5 or 2 times the average speed of traffic, particularly if all the driver can see is a single headlight approaching.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Burleigh, post: 703967, member: 4162"] I no longer accept at face value in reading about an accident that 'another car came out of nowhere and slaughter an innocent motorcyclist.' Too often I fear the motorcyclist was a principle cause of the accident. And in fact statistics bear this out--viz., that motorcyclists are a principle contributing factor in their own deaths. This includes, as you say, ability to execute evasive action. For example, we recently had an accident here on the very same road I wrote about in a recent edition of [URL="https://www.fjrforum.com/forum//index.php?showtopic=125875"]California Commuter Chronicles[/URL]. It was a young man (a "kid") on a sport bike who must have gunned it off the previous intersection after the light changed and, carrying too much speed and not having had the proper experience and training, could not respond to a car turning left across his path into a shopping center (I ride past the dried, wilting flowers at the spot every day). What did he do? Brake? Swerve? No. He tried to bail off the machine. Never mind that he should have anticipated such issues in an urban environment and never carried so much speed. And how can we blame a driver for behaving responsibly but not realizing or anticipating that the bike is actually going 1.3 or 1.5 or 2 times the average speed of traffic, particularly if all the driver can see is a single headlight approaching. [/QUOTE]
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