Now be honest !! and how did you feel ????

[Blimey]

Ok heres a thread to wet your whiskers.

I nearly took out a motorcyclist yesterday in my lorry. I approached a roundabout and he was coming around it, towards me on my right so i should of stopped. But i didn't and nearly hit him very hard and prob did some serious damage if i did.

My excuse and a poor one at that as i am ment to be a proffesional driver is that i didn't see him as he was caught in the line of the mirror which can easyily hide a car. I do normally consider this and adjust my own postion and look around this. But got complasent.

I felt rotten and prob more scared then he was and excepted all the w*nker signs he gave me including the middle finger to

OK YOUR TURN

Has anyone else had a near miss with a motorcyclst whilst driving and was your fault and felt bad about it??

Just so i know i ain't the only one, and beleive me it wasn't the first time i have done it

[Funky]

You bloody cage drivers, you all make me sick, i spit on thee.

[DynaMight]

If it makes you feel any better, I once pulled out infront of a man in a white transit van. He wasnt very pleased, I thought it was ironic.

[speedy(delboy)]

You [Censored] cage drivers, you all make me sick, i spit on thee.

Like it Spunky

As far as I can remember and also the 8 years of cabbing, dont think I have, but there again I do live in the outback

[julian]

I think nearly every 4-wheeled driver has put the wind up a biker, even if the driver hasn’t realised it. The difference is when we’re driving our cars we know when, and what we may have done wrong. The average ‘car only’ driver is oblivious, until its to late.

As a car driver I’ve had the cxxp scared out of me by bikers passing 2ft away at twice my speed, its okay to say ‘you should have looked in your mirrors’ but at those kinds of speeds the bike might not have been in the mirror 5 seconds previously.

[r1dave]

Well blimey you hit the nail on the head, GOT COMPLASENT, Can happen to anyone, At least you you didnt hit him, So learn from it and carry on, As you pro lorry drivers do. Yes if it happened to me i would feel sick call myself a few names and get on with it, So easily done though.

[Rsv4Col]

been there , done that

Trouble is mirrors on trucks are getting bigger ( not an excuse) And now on the new trucks there is an extra one on the windscreen so by the time you have checked them all you have travelled a mile or hit some one up the arse

[billinom8s]

surely u should have been looking at the roundabout as u approached it and not as u were pulling away.

this comes down to a total lack of concentration and disreguard for two wheeled users, it would seem your motorcycle riding techniques are now passing over to your van driving style.

maybe you should start riding pillion and learn your basics again

[georgie_d]

ah mate, can understand were ur coming from, when i pull out in my truck i check all the time moving backwards and forwards trying to see past the mirrors i look like i am insane. i have just fitted some stainless steel mirror protecters too, they are even more harder to see around. driving the trucks that we do you not only have to look out the front but mirrors too due to the overhang we have at the rear alot to do just to pull out.....

[Mervin]

Thankfully have never had this happen with a biker, had some close calls with lunatic car drivers approaching roundabouts at insane speeds, mirrors do create blind spots, just remember folks as you approach a roundabout that you cannot stop 40 tonnes of truck on a sixpence, when you are howling into a roundabout at 50 mph from around a bend you appear very quickly , and it takes a lot of stopping a truck and w do shit ourselfs about these things, and we all have to share these roads
Merv

[Jak]

horrible feeling.

I actually got hit by a bike once. He went down the outside of stationary traffic at about 50 (left hand bend) - they'd stopped to let me out. I was creeping forward slowly waiting for traffic the other way to stop (mega busy A-road up country) and I saw him coming - I stopped dead but he couldn't and he bounced off the side of me. He broke his thumb and bent his bike but did little damage to the car. He called me all the names under the sun - even though everyone said there was sod all I could've done. He was done for driving without due care and his insurance coughed up too. But I felt awful for ages. Never used that junction again.

[AndyS4]

iv never put a biker in danger from my driving. (only been on the road 12 months though). i did have a guy on a 125 with L plates sat about 1 foot off my bumper on an empty dual carrigway the other day. TBH at times some of these young bikers bring it on themselves.

[andy198712]

i think everyone has done it, wether they realise it or not,

i cant think of doin it to a biker in the car, but did on my 50CC due to poor road skill, pulled out and a bike was coming and he zoomed past and gave me the finger, felt sick

nearly got T boned by a car on saturday, he was in the wrong lane on a round about so i pulled out thinking he was gonna turn off, didnt so i put my foot down, but had my heart goin, was pretty close, (was in acar myself)

[Ace]

I know where you are coming from, i have said for a long time now that modern cars are designed with more and more blind spots. My Vectra has quite thick pillars and i am constantly having to look round them.

We had a new renault Megan as a loaner last year, it was the worst car i have driven for years for blind spots.

My missus rides and she was hit off by a van driver who was reversing back from a set of lights becouse he was in the wrong lane, she broke the cardinal rule and wasnt in his mirrors. she went under but he stopped just in time. To make it worse he was a biker himself, he was motified.

[Mike Daytona600]

Have done things before and thought afterwards ' should have checked more, what if there'd been a bike there'.

I read a sticker on the back of a lorry once, it said 'If you can't see my mirrors, I can't see you'

What a good point, so I always try and make sure I can see lorry mirrors when following them.

Oh and off topic but this site is taking ages and there's been 290 posts since my last visit Sorry