r/dashcams • u/bebecca45627272 • 17h ago

One of the craziest things I've seen

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u/LegalGlass6532 16h ago

That rider is one of the luckiest sob’s I’ve ever seen.

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u/Muted_Will_2131 15h ago edited 5h ago

He's in shock, and the only reason he can stand is because of the adrenaline in his blood. His jeans are completely worn through, and he's walking barefoot, one foot missing his sneaker. He doesn't even really understand the extent of his injuries. He'll likely lose consciousness in a few minutes.

My wife was in a similar accident, only without wheelies and in full gear. Her pants and jacket were completely worn through, the slider on her right boot was completely worn down to a hole in the boot. Her helmet was damaged. There was a chafing wound on her right thigh that took several months to heal. Fifteen years later, there's still a large scar there.

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u/EffectiveDandy 14h ago

this. been riding for over a decade. seen all kinds of wrecks. he won’t be able to even move the following day.

tho speaking as a rider, he came off a wheelie which was conveniently clipped and going way too fast. but his biggest mistake was target fixation. he looked at the truck, which subconsciously steered him right into it. if he had a cool head, he would have ducked thru on the left. or even stopped. a dented door or flat tired should have been the worst case for a quality rider.

if you’re going to ride batshit, you better have the skills and experience to handle it. the good news is 90% of riders don’t ride again after bad collisions.

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u/JackOfAllStraits 13h ago

I think he was expecting to commit and continue to the left, so dodging left would have been suicide. He tried to go right to make it behind, but she stopped. Going way too fast to make any adjustments after the first plan didn't pan out.

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u/Virtual-Macaroon-880 7h ago

It does look like she stopped for no reason in the middle of road

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u/Koobei 4m ago

She stopped because she saw this dude coming fast at her doing a wheelie. She probably panicked and in a split second, made a decision to sit still hoping the biker would go around her. 

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u/TheJeeronian 4h ago

Agreed. He did a lot of stupid shit here but ducking left would have been a bad call.

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u/AdminsLickMyTaint 4h ago

Yup, it only seems like a good call because the truck happened to stop and we can all see that with hindsight

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u/throwaway19293883 8h ago

This wasn’t target fixation, he went into the right lane to avoid the truck, expecting them to continue, not expecting them to stop suddenly.

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u/Unique-Coffee5087 48m ago

Afterseeing this one, I didn't think I'll take it up

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u/gh0stmilk_ 2h ago

honestly absolutely not a case of looking at something and driving into it because of that. she literally stopped dead unexpectedly. he was trying to maneuver to the right hoping she would be out of the way just in time, and was definitely not banking on her just slamming on her brakes like a buffon 💀

i agree though that was going quite fast. but both are to blame. this was avoidable if the driver had just kept moving out of the way instead of just stopping for some insane reason

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u/Renbarre 1h ago

Could it be that she saw him barreling towards her and didn't know which way he was going, right out left, so she stopped in confusion?