adithorp
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| posted on 12/6/09 at 06:54 PM |
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Lunacy! Ride like that and it's just a matter of time before it goes tit's up.
What about undertaking his mate...Not exactly in a position to accuse the Astra driver of poor overtaking.
Only good thing there is it wasn't someone else he killed.
"A witty saying proves nothing" Voltaire
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Paul (Notts)
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| posted on 12/6/09 at 07:04 PM |
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The Astra driver was alread starting his overtaking manover before the bike past the car behind the astra...Feel sorry for the drivers of the cars
involved.
Paul
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thunderace
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| posted on 12/6/09 at 09:26 PM |
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i have been a biker for 25 years
i have one rule and it works
im invisable .
very sad for the ones left behind.
totally his own fault.
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l0rd
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| posted on 12/6/09 at 10:35 PM |
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As far as i am concerned, it's the bikers fault completely.
What i would like to say also is that here in UK you have a bad tendancy of indicating and pulling out instantly expecting that the vehicle behind you
will slow down to let you pass.
I see that every day driving down M5 and M4 and i am fed up of it. specially when you get cars that do 60Mph behind lorries, and all the rest doing
80+ Mph in the midle lane.
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02GF74
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| posted on 13/6/09 at 09:32 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by l0rd
As far as i am concerned, it's the bikers fault completely.
What i would like to say also is that here in UK you have a bad tendancy of indicating and pulling out instantly expecting that the vehicle behind you
will slow down to let you pass.
It is too easy to jump onto the biker riding at excessive speed therefore it must be his fault type of band wagon.
I looked at the video again, and highliht two things.
rule 68
areas of white diagonal stripes or white chevrons painted on the road are to separate traffic streams.... Do not drive over these areas if you can
avoid doing so. where the chevron has a solid white line, you must not enter the aread except in an emergency
The driver clearly crossed into the marked off area. He had no reason to do so. Just becasue the car in front was going too slow for him is no
excuse to cross into that area.
Rule 42
remember the routine: Mirror - signal - manoeuvre
We may never know if the driver used the mirror and we can see the indicator going but it looks like the driver was already moving to overtake when
he/she put the indicator on - as noted above.
unfortunatley the motorcyclist broke the golden rule of not paying attention to his "escape lane" - a safe place in the road to go if
forced by other traffic - making an overtake along side a vehicle coming in the opposite direction left him nowhere to go.
very tragic all round.
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omega 24 v6
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| posted on 13/6/09 at 10:26 AM |
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IMHO he was lucky to get as far as he did before that accident. 
If it looks wrong it probably is wrong.
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 13/6/09 at 09:39 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by phoenix70
it is people like them that give the do-gooders like BRAKE the ammunitions to try and get speed limits reduced.[Edited on 12/6/09 by phoenix70]
Oh yes we should definately reduce them from 140! This is the problem with the do-gooders he probably would have been almost as dead if he was doing
25... Plus it's not going a little over the limit that appears to be the problem it's going way over the limit, along with overtaking
while another car's coming the other way (only THAT doesn't kill does it?)
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