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POLL on CLOSE CALLS ACCIDENTS!!!

DreamHondaf4i

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HOw many riders here have been through a STUPID DRIVER making a left turn in front of you without looking left? Just curious to see how often this happens. He was driving a TOW TRUCK too. I was going 40mph. Would have hurt badddd....

Share your experiences everybodyl.
 
Too close for comfort!

#1

Imagine an intersection with a 2 way stop... I was riding (FZR600) at about 45mph, I see a STUPID DRIVER come to a stop to my right, then proceed - not yeilding my right of way! :eek My reaction? I remember reaching for my brakes, and hearing tires screeching... My body decided to react by shuting down (meaning I blacked out) I later found out my bike ended up T-boning the car! I came to in a helicopter with a broken arm and a fractured spine. Thanks to the morphine, I didn't feel a thing. I couldn't move my upper body for 2 months.

Not all bad though... guys insurance paid off the lein of my bike, medical bills, with some extra change for me to buy a truck and an old RD350, once I recovered and decided to get back on a bike. On top of that I am getting $500 for the rest of my life, from Uncle Sam (I was in the military at the time) That's my monthly insurance and bike payment PAID thanks to the STUPID DRIVER)

I have the best guardian :angel! I am lucky to be alive and well from what I hear! I'll probably feel all the back pain when I'm old and grey, but for now I am alright! :thumbup
 
I was in a left turn lane at an intersection and got the light (green left arrow to go). I started out and this SUV on the opposite side took off and just barely tapped me with her front end. She started yelling and flipping me off until I and several bystanders turned around and pointed out that her light was red. Luckily no damage was done, except a bruise on my right thigh from her bumper... After she realized she had jumped the gun on her light, she was really embarressed and appoligized like crazy. Scared the piss out of me though
 
When I see cars at intersections or driveways, I weave my bike in my lane (like I'm warming my tires). I have NEVER had someone pull infront of me using this technique!

Mark
 
Too numerous to count...........................I have situations involving stupid drivers almost every time I get on the road with either my MC or my cage. The highways/roads are just dangerous and you have to be aware at all times.

BTW: Close Call Accidents is a misnomer. Thread Nazi strikes again!!! :twofinger
 
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I've also had way too many to count. How do I react? Same way every time. Brake, swerve, accelerate, or whatever I need to do to avoid the accident, then shrug it off and keep riding. Occasionally I'll give the BARF salute to really flagrant offenders. :twofinger
 
got hit by a left turner in the intersection of ashby at telegraph in 1991. I was headed west the car was headed east. this was before the helmet law but i had full face on. something about the attitude of the car (how the wheels where turned but no left turn signal) set me off and I jumped on the brakes, front and rear on a little yamaha exicter 185 (drum brakes). at first I thought I was going through her wind shield, then I thought she missed me then her rear bumber caught my fornt fork and down I went.
helmet hit pavement.
helmets good, head injuries bad.
 
I've been through many at cager faults and also many close calls due to my own stupidity...way to many.
 
So far I've only been in one cager-instigated close call.

splitting lanes in rush hour, got a jeep cherokee coming up on the left, passing a semi on the right, going slow cos the semi scares the shit outta me... just clear the cab and the JEEP changes lanes while I'm next to it! just had enough time to jink right and gas it, car's mirror whacks mine and knocks it askew...

whew.




then there was the time I was still kinda getting used to the FZ, just got off the old standard so I tended to use a bit too much rear brake... riding down 4, and traffic starts to bunch up... slow down a tad, and all of a sudden WHAT THE HELL big blue-plastic wrapped BLOCKS of god knows what tumbling around on the freeway?? plot evasive course rear brake REAR WHEEL LOCKED ah shit, fishtail the bike around these whatever they were (and a couple of cars) and then pull over and breathe hard for a few minutes.

riding up in foothills outside of Jackson, little road called Tabaud Rd, basically a paved access/maintenance track for the power line, right? conditions perfect, running along at around 60, right in the rhythm for the curves, come up a hill around this corner and WHERE'S THE ROAD? emergency braking, get into gravel and the rear locks again, now I'm in grass and still slowing, coming up on a barbed wire fence head on and.. i stopped just short of it. look left. no road, that's somebody's driveway. look right... oh, there's the road.

maneuver bike around in first, get back on the road in the right direction, and then the shakes hit.

Yah I've had too many damn close calls.
 
ive only had it happen once when a lady tried switching into my lane while i was right next to her window. it looked like she wanted to take me out or something how can you not see me :rolleyes :rant but all I did was weave in my lane since any further left it would have been an island.
~Brandon
 
DreamHondaf4i said:
HOw many riders here have been through a STUPID DRIVER making a left turn in front of you without looking left? Just curious to see how often this happens.

Happened to me two weeks ago today.
I was going east, he was going west. Heavy traffic, he made a left through a gap in the cars going my way to pull in to a driveway marked "DO NOT ENTER."
I reacted by screaming in my helmet..OH FUCK...CAR!!!, getting on the brakes and finally impacting the right rear side of his pos car. Was going 10-15 mph at impact. Bike is totaled and I'm still sore. Just starting to work with the insurance companies now.
I guess it was time for a new bike anyway :p .
 
canyonrat2 said:
When I see cars at intersections or driveways, I weave my bike in my lane (like I'm warming my tires). I have NEVER had someone pull infront of me using this technique!

Mark

I do the exact same thing..works for me also....
 
lol
yesterday at pico and centinela..

impatient suv behind me makes a left before i do but he didn't see this cadillac coming flying through the intersection. He hit the SUV head on. I'm glad I waited those extra few seconds before I turned.
 
THE day I passed the MSF course, I put my new found skills to use. Headed North on Castro Valley BLVD towards *$s, had a guy turn left in front of me into a parking lot. Got my bike stopped roughly 4 inches from his door. I thought to myself, "I accepted this risk, this is the lifestyle I'v chosen" and restarted my bike.

Heh, the guy in the Chevy truck leaving said parking lot wasn't so cool headed. He threw his truck in reverse, jumped out and gave the guy who cut me off a verbal reaming that rivaled some actual ass-beatings I'v seen.
 
OldFatGuy said:
I've also had way too many to count. How do I react? Same way every time. Brake, swerve, accelerate, or whatever I need to do to avoid the accident, then shrug it off and keep riding. Occasionally I'll give the BARF salute to really flagrant offenders. :twofinger


Same.
 
Fortunately, not too many. Once while commuting on the Fzr, I saw this guy on a Volvo (of course it had to be a volvo!) to my right. I had this feeling he was going to cut into my line so kept my eye on him and sure enough he did. Gave him the barf salute.

The other time was merging into the carpool lane on 237W. One cager (who wasn't suppose to be in there..solo driver) got into the lane from behind and blew past me as I was getting onto the carpool lane. Almost clipped me on the left and missed by less than a foot. Fortunately, I didn't swerve into the car on my right.
 
Adapted riding through intersection rich roads by following close behind a cager. Using them as an escort and big sign don't pull a left turn in front of us :D
Another situation is cager in a left turn only lane only decides they made a mistake they really want to go straight. Decide coast is clear when a motorcycle is about to pass.
I pre react to these incidents. Expected the lame ass moves. If I had a nickle for everytime it happens I have $1.35 :D
 
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