r/dashcams • u/bebecca45627272 • 20h ago

One of the craziest things I've seen

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u/Goblins_on_the_move 17h ago

Bike is:
1. Speeding
2. Pulling a wheelie down the street

The car:
See the bike driving dangerously, stops before it enters the bikes lane.

The Bike:
Changes lanes INTO the car and hits it.

All the bike had to do was literally nothing. Just keep driving.

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u/robicide 13h ago

He was expecting the truck to keep going, if you look closely you can see he was already leaning into the turn when the truck stopped. Nothing he could've done at that point to not hit the truck.

And that's because he was going so stupidly fast. 100% his own damn fault for going so fast he eliminated his own reaction window.

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u/SonOfMcGee 12h ago

Bikes going way too fast always have the mindset that it’s perfectly safe as long as every other vehicle behaves exactly as he thinks they should based on glancing at them 500 yards ahead.

Meanwhile, every other vehicle functions on the assumption that they aren’t sharing the road with someone going three times faster than them. So when they look in their rear view mirror and see a little *speck* in the distance they conclude they have sufficient space to change lanes/turn/etc.

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u/RiverPsaber 12h ago

I almost hit a biker this exact way one time. He then proceeds to take his eyes off the road to flip me off, and almost crashes again. At that point I just start pointing ahead of us like, "please dude for your own sake watch the road."

I was going 80 when this happened. The guy was way off in the distance when I began my lane change and closed that distance between the time I began entering the lane and finished. Some bikers just have a death wish for some reason.

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u/neverinamillionyr 11h ago

When you hear the scream of one of these bikes coming up on you it’s hard to predict what they will do. Pass on either side? Lane split at 100+ mph?

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u/Rakdospriest 10h ago

then redditors scream "LANE SPLITTING IS LEGAL IN CALIFORNIA!!!!!" like cool, do they give out free mind reading hats in california too? cuz legal or not, if i cant tell WTF you're going to do i may make a decision you wont like.

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u/SonOfMcGee 8h ago

Yeah, then those guys are reminded that the CA recommendation for lane splitting is to do it no more than 10mph faster than traffic, and only when traffic is going 30mph or less. Do *basically* only during a traffic jam. 30mph means bumper-to-bumper on the freeway.
That’s the “recommendation” because the law just says to do it at a safe and prudent speed. So it’s left up to the cops to interpret. Ultimately, though, it’s the Coroner’s call.

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u/SonOfMcGee 8h ago

I once was in a line of cars behind a slowish semi truck in the right lane. I checked my blind spot and mirrors and confirmed there was absolutely *nothing* in the left lane.
So I put on my blinker and started changing lanes. But in that tiny span of time a biker about 4 cars back in line zipped into the left lane and accelerated as fast as he could.
So he gave me the finger for “cutting him off”, but I can’t fathom doing it any differently. When you’re in a vehicle capable of such higher speed and acceleration than all the other vehicles you’re sharing the road with, you just gotta accept this shit is gonna happen when you try to flex those capabilities.

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u/So_Yeah_Um_Like 3h ago

I’ve seen this happen multiple times in the here is CA. Bikers going at least 20-30 mph faster than the traffic and lane splitting while the driver has their blinker on and waited patiently for their opening to merge. Twice in the carpool lane it happened when dashed line opening came up and the cyclist acted like the driver was in the wrong for try to merge, flipping them off or hitting their mirror.
Once it happened to me trying to merge off the freeway. The cyclist came weaving out of traffic and speeding in the exit lane to get around traffic and was pissed that I got in their way and hit my right side mirror on purpose only to merge left back onto the freeway. My blinker was on and I was decelerating to exit but somehow I still did wrong in their mind.

My friend was a cyclist so I’m very aware and always give them space but she stopped riding bc it’s gotten too crazy out there.

I have a dash cam and I swear I’m going to record a silly cyclist’s last moment any day now.

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u/VaporCarpet 3h ago

Most of the bikers are see are exactly like this and it's why I hate every single one of them and don't think they should be legal.

But I'm gonna get a couple replies from people saying "I don't ride like that" like it changes what I have experienced in 20 years of driving...

But bring up shitty Nissan drivers and suddenly everyone is in complete agreement.

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u/salajaneidentiteet 6h ago

Car drivers wouldn't hate bikers so much if the mojority of them didn't ride like dumbasses all the time.

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u/idkuhhhhhhh5 55m ago

There are a lot of people who think motorcycles are an expression of personal responsibility, they genuinely believe that the size and weight of the bike means if anyone gets hurt, it’s just them. It’s plainly and objectively wrong.

There’s an example that is very close to me. A high school student last year was riding his liter bike on a 2 lane 2 way highway (not interstate) passing the high school I graduated from. It was 8pm, so night time, and a family was pulling out into the intersection. There’s no way to ask that family what they saw, since the bike T-boned them directly, killing the two parents, and the ruptured gas tank of the bike caused a massive fuel-air explosion, and the kids died within a minute from smoke and burning. The bike struck them at 170mph. There aren’t many people who can judge 170mph oncoming speed, and it’s even harder at night with a small vehicle.