Always make sure you have been seen.

[dan90210]

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[goatpants]

Kin ell

[silvertonkate]

Got as far as the warning about it being upsetting & didn't dare watch it!

[Red5]

There you have it, new bike, street or speed triple, would've had both headlights on, not exactly looning it.
'kin hell indeed!!!!

[dan90210]

It isn't grim or anything Kate, but it will remind you to be aware.

[goatpants]

When approaching junctions and the like I always keep an eye on other road users. Its just overtaking I have a problem

[silvertonkate]

Oh ok, watched it now... Sorry watched a vid someone put on FB the other day & it was of bull running - not in a street but open spaces & people being gored & tossed about etc - made me feel sick so I'm a bit wary!

Hm not good. I had an interesting moment on the A361/A396 roundabout at Tiverton with a lorry driver who saw me and made eye contact, but decided to lift his foot on the clutch a little to make the lorry lurch forward and then laughed when I twitched the bike. [bar steward].

[dan90210]

What a F-ing c0ck. I hate lorry drivers (well the bad ones anyway!). I can't believe how irresponsible some of them are. I've seen them doing all sorts behind there multiple tonne vehicles capable of certain carnage. Texting and swerving at 70mph (yes 70) on the motorway. Using feet to control the wheel, again on the motorway. Eating. Talking on the phone. Reading books or newspapers. These drivers need their licenses taken from them and shoved up their ar$e. I'm thinking of filming the next one from the passenger seat of the car and sending it to the police.

And talk to them about driving skills and they'll no doubt tell you how amazing they are.

Dongers!

[badgerKDD]

To be honest it could have been a lot worse had he not been riding sensibly. Unfortunately I don't think you can tar all lorry drivers with the same brush, that situation happens with cars on a daily basis, this time just happened to be a lorry.

[dan90210]

I referred to Kate's statement and what I have seen bad truckers doing whilst driving. My best friend and best man is an artic lorry trucker and he agrees.

The driver in the film just didn't look properly and like you say, this happens all the time. It doesn't make it okay though. Truckers are pro drivers and are in control of huge dangerous vehicles, this guy should know better!

[graham22]

Whilst the lorry driver is totally to blame here & I agree with Badger that you get good & bad in all types of drivers.

Being a miserable cynic, I'm also going to go out on a limb a bit & feel that had the bloke riding the bike wasn't giving it 100%.

OK, he wasn't doing anything wrong, I think that some of the extra effort he should be using whilst riding, he was using to 'discuss' what ever he was talking about. How often when we've been riding, you notice someone looking through you or in this case the rider should have been looking at the lorry driver to see he was dialling in some lock or even the wheels moving or even the shadow changing under the lorry.

Surely these are things you're looking at when riding rather than thinking about or discussing your tea! If this rider was really paying attention, it would have been a near miss rather than a crash.

I was taught no matter how much in the right you may be, it will hurt.

[dan90210]

Good point.

[Funky]

Defintiely quite nasty and lorry in the wrong, an element of target fixation from the biker maybe.

I'm worried about that bit of road kill on the side about 18 seconds in. It looked like a poor innocent bunny or something...


Or it could have just been a rock.

[badgerKDD]

Bunny's can't afford go pro's, so we shall never know his side of the story.......shame

[Mervin]

I am sure the rabbit had nothing to do with the accident , I have heard that before, I will not go into it here though, but dead rabbits do not go unnoticed in accident investigations I know for a fact,