Police cause SV650 to crash...
 

Possibly a repost but I searched 10 pages and did other searches.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5c4_1388933726

Lots of questionable practice from both sides of the fence that could be debated all day, but 90mph in the wet when it's foggy is always a bit more risky!

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They were going too fast (if the reading was accurate) if so, the distance between said copper & the bikes at that speed is ridiculously short.

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The bikes shouldn't have been going that fast BUT, and we're talking Nikki Minaj sized but right here...

The only bikes the coppers are going to be pulling over are going to be travelling faster than the limit, and the ones travelling more quickly are going to be more likely to be pulled

Logically it would have been prudent to give them ample stopping distance, and then some buffer on top of that...

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In fairness... One did stop :-D failure to look ahead meant the next couldn't stop in time

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You should not travel faster than you can see to safely stop on your side of the road.

If it wasn't an officer in the way how about an animal like a pheasant or sheep?

Rider error.

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speeding or not,its f@cking stupid stepping out to stop a bike in the fog,he could have just taken down his registration number,but lets just face it they aint got any thing better to do with there time,and we all know doing 10mph over the speed limit is a worse crime then robbing a old lady,and from my travels on the roads at night,its about time they pulled over all those cars that have lights out,about one in twenty,but that might! actually make the roads safer,rather then causing the accident

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At the time of going round the corner and exiting his path was clear & nothing to stop for. The officer steps out about 20-15 metres from the bikes to signal them to stop. from '90' that isn't much time or space no matter which way you cut it.

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Not strictly the case though.If someone pulled out of a side road and you couldnt stop it would be their fault legally.The cop essentially "pulled out" in front of the bikes and one couldnt stop in time.Legally I reckon the cop could well be to blame there,even if from an "advanced driving" perspective the bike should have had better forward vision.

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Stupid traffic stop! However, the other two bikes stopped fine. Maybe if the SV rider has used his front brake this vid would never have made it to liveleak.

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First biker should have lowsided into the cop :)