Here's what happens when you cut off a motorcycle

Wow. Nice. She points out they both made mistakes...but never once shrugs it off. She really admits she f'ed up.

Everybody forward and re-post the article!!!! :laughing8:
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Email sent.
 
good for her

she screwed up, and she apologizes and owns up to her mistake
 
Good read.
I would be interested to know what the motorcyclist thinks of this article, should he/she come across it and realize it is about them.
 
If every driver did all the things she has done prior to changing a lane ... wow, it would be an easy life on our roads. BTW, if you pop out of lane quickly enough on a bike, there's a huge chance you will not be seen by the next car ahead even if two shoulder checks are done by the driver ... that's just the way it is.
 
Hang on....

The motorcyclist was behind her in the lane to her left, she had her signal on in plenty of time to make a lane change, and then the motorcyclist "flashed by" her as she started the lane change?

Why the bloody hell wouldn't the motorcyclist just let her change lanes, as she was indicating she intended to do, instead of trying to hog the lane and tear by her before she could make the manouver?

If that's really how it happened then that is some pretty stupid riding if you ask me. It's the 403 in heavy traffic - that is time for survival mode, not asserting one's claim on the lane, or the right to travel much faster than surrounding traffic.
 
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Email sent to Lorraine Sommerfeld, cc'd Wheels editor Mark Richardson. She's a class act, we need more like her.
 
Right of way YellowDuck. Forward moving traffic cant be expected to yield to anyone and everyone that wants to change lanes. The onus is on the cage to proceed safely or not at all.
 
Buddhacide said:
Right of way YellowDuck. Forward moving traffic cant be expected to yield to anyone and everyone that wants to change lanes. The onus is on the cage to proceed safely or not at all.
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"I had the right of way" makes for a lousy tombstone epitaph.

All I am saying is, if you are on a bike in heavy traffic and someone has their turn signal on to make a lane change you are better off assuming that they are NOT going to see you, ESPECIALLY if you are approaching their position at a high closing speed. Just yield the lane and save your skin. It's not about who has right of way or what you are entitled to - it is about riding defensvely and living to ride another day.

Probably that angry rider flipping the bird went home angry and maybe even ranted to others about the stupid "cager" that tried to kill him. Any chance he spent even a moment thinking about what HE could have done differently to better protect himself from someone else's mistake?
 
I sent her an email on behalf of us suggesting her next set of wheels be this:
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