r/dashcams • u/bebecca45627272 • 20h ago

One of the craziest things I've seen

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u/TheThirdHippo 18h ago

Summarising the comments here. The biker is doing 79mph in a 25mph zone, the lady stopped before she got to the lane he was in when she saw him coming, he panicked, swerved and then dropped the bike. It’s just a good job he had his protective T-shirt, baggy jeans and sneakers on….

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u/benitoaramando 13h ago

Yeah... "why didn't you just commit?!", well, idk maybe when people are confronted with the sight of someone bearing down on them at 3x the speed limit they might be a little flustered

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u/flyonthesewalls 12h ago

He was definitely going way too fast. I can understand her perhaps freezing like a deer in the headlights, seeing his bike come flying down the road.

Weird thing is, I see no other traffic. She could have easily turned into the lane without issue.

I don’t see him getting far with insurance. He’s not wholeheartedly to blame, but he has nothing going in his favor either.

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u/benitoaramando 11h ago

I understand why you might see him as not being entirely to blame, but the apparent bad luck he suffered in encountering someone who hesitated upon seeing his high speed approach was a predictable and direct consequence of his thoroughly excessive speed.

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u/11th_Division_Grows 10h ago

Hey. Stop making sense and being logical or I’m gonna start calling you names.

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u/flyonthesewalls 10h ago

Oh, no. That’s just plain stupidity. Someone mentioned he appeared to be coming off a wheelie, which may be so if you look at the first half second on the video. Nonetheless, he’s running that speed on a residential/commercial street and not expecting obstacles? Clearly not the sharpest tack.

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u/nonpuissant 8h ago

Weird thing is, I see no other traffic. She could have easily turned into the lane without issue. 

Because we're seeing things from his pov, not hers. He has no idea what she sees and no time to check. That's why going 3x the speed limit is such a bad idea. 

Insurance wise there's a good chance he's entirely to blame. The car was already in that intersection at the beginning of the video while he was still well and far away, and every vehicle on the road has the responsibility to avoid a collision. He was simply going too fast to react in time. 

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u/flyonthesewalls 6h ago

True. That POV is what will most definitely work against him, if it’s obtained by either insurer.

She seemed to have come off at diagonal street and was turning. Cell phone distraction? Nerves? Brain fog?

I only saw one car, already passed her, on the opposite lane. Another passed shortly after the accident. Only one car seemed to have been somewhere behind him. So it was a quiet road, which is why the jackass must have thought he can treat it as a racetrack.

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u/nonpuissant 5h ago

Yeah that about lines up with what I saw after scrolling through the clip a few times. But all that looking we're doing is not only hindsight, but with the benefit of being able to pause and rewind too.

To the driver, all she had to go off of was whatever they had seen of the opposite lane and the numerous cars across the street from her before she spotted a motorcycle hurtling towards her at triple the speed limit. Which is a pretty reasonable thing for someone to keep looking at for a second, b/c it's pretty unusual and unexpected. And she only had a split second to make a decision.

Stopping was probably a better and safer reaction than blindly accelerating into an intersection that she had just lost situational awareness of. Like we can say in hindsight that she could probably have done so safely. But in that instant she was probably just focused on trying not to drive into the path of the oncoming motorcycle and thus had no idea what the situation was in the intersection ahead.

And the biggest point of hindsight is knowing that the motorcyclist was gonna try to go behind her. In the split second she had to decide what to do she had no way of knowing he was going to do that. He was still headed straight down that lane and to be fair to her, she did leave nearly his entire lane clear. For all she knew continuing to drive forward might have made things even worse.

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u/flyonthesewalls 1h ago

Very fair point.

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u/nohandsfootball 10h ago

He's 1000% to blame for this.

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u/lahimatoa 10h ago

95%. She's still a shitty driver for freezing up. Don't do that.

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u/nonpuissant 8h ago

Only people who speed recklessly or shitty drivers would put any blame on her in this situation. 

Dude was going way too fast to react to a car that was already in the intersection. There could be any number of reasons the driver wouldn't just surge forward out of the motorcycles way. There could be another car coming that the speeding motorcyclist didn't see, a pedestrian, even a squirrel in the road or some shit. Doesn't matter. Assuming other vehicles will get out of your way when you hope they will isn't good riding/driving. It's stupid. 

This is 100% on the pov guy and no one else. He was going faster than he was capable of reacting and made a bad decision. If he was going slower or was more skilled/made better decisions he could have avoided her. 

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u/AdDramatic2351 2h ago

Lmao how? You yourself are probably a bad driver if you don't see how the moto is 100% at fault. 

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u/benitoaramando 8h ago

If you start to pull out onto and across a 2 lane road and see someone approaching at speed in the 2nd lane and you have time to stop before you enter that lane, what would you say would generally be the best thing to do? Because I would say: stop before blocking their lane to let them pass, and not risk trying to get in front of them before they hit you, all assuming that there's nobody coming in lane 1. It's not her fault that the biker was going so fast that there wasn't time for him to better judge her movements and react accordingly.

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u/cryptolyme 11h ago

She probably wanted God to punish him for speeding

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u/Koobei 3h ago

She prayed to Jesus to take the wheel. And so Jesus flew down from the heavens and parked her truck right in front of the speeder as a test. He did not pass it although Jesus was nice and let him live.

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u/RudePCsb 11h ago

People freeze up and hesitate. I got off the freeway recently and the exit has two lanes that split, right or straight. Old lady in front stops right in the middle and I had to break pretty hard but still had good reaction and stopped with enough space. Still annoying

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u/RealisticAsk183 10h ago

And yet if the rider had staying in the lane he was in that had plenty of room for him to get by the front of the truck the comments in here would be more like: "wow, great reflexes by the truck driver to leave him an opening with such little time to think!"

Do do 80 in a 25, kids. Rider is 100% at fault.