First accident with the new bike

Sooo... I've just bought a Tiger 1050 and on the second day of having the bike out, I get into my first accident with it.
(Remember that in my country we drive on the other side as Britain)

I was about to reach my firms offices. In front of me, a lady in a big mercedes car signals left to pull into the car park of my firm (it's a small T junction). I signal left as well.
She takes the left, then I take the left as well. The entrance to the car park is a narrow road that only takes 1 car at the beginning of it. She stop in the middle of the road and signals right.
I'm behind her and I'm thinking "damn, she wants to back out so she can turn around". But I can't back up, because there are cars driving on the main road and I can't pass her, because there's no space next to her big a*s car.

So I signal her to move a little bit forward, where the road widens, so I can pass her and she can then back up into the street.

She looks in front of her, she looks at me in the mirror. She looks again in front of her and again in the mirror at me. Puts the car in reverse (the lights at the back light up) and starts to back up. I can't go anywhere so I honk my horn and try to somehow get out of the way, but I can't move as fast as she can back up. I brace for impact and she hits my front wheel and stops. I somehow manage to hold the bike up.
So now that she's backed into me, I pick the bike up and see that there is now enough space next to her window. I quickly pull up to her window to have a chat.

Me : Did you not see me? I know you saw me.
Her : Yes, yes I did.
Me : So when did it occur to you that it might be a good idea to run me over!?!?
Her : (Pauses for a second) Until now, whenever I backed up, people got out of the way. Why did you not clear the way so I can back up?

Realizing this might be the new queen of idiots, the new maximum of stupidity that I have thus far encountered in life, I feel like


I proceed to explain to her that she had no right of way and that the people behind her are under no obligation to make room for her (although they will generally make room, as nice people do).

Fortunately, nothing bad happened to me, nor to the bike, so I let her go, although I could have taken her to the police to have her licence.

Lesson 1 learned : don't get into places with no alternative ways out.
Lesson 2 learned : get a camera to film events for future legal reference

lesson 3 ,shoot all woman driving merc's

Originally Posted by andreis

Sooo... I've just bought a Tiger 1050 and on the second day of having the bike out, I get into my first accident with it.
(Remember that in my country we drive on the other side as Britain)

I was about to reach my firms offices. In front of me, a lady in a big mercedes car signals left to pull into the car park of my firm (it's a small T junction). I signal left as well.
She takes the left, then I take the left as well. The entrance to the car park is a narrow road that only takes 1 car at the beginning of it. She stop in the middle of the road and signals right.
I'm behind her and I'm thinking "damn, she wants to back out so she can turn around". But I can't back up, because there are cars driving on the main road and I can't pass her, because there's no space next to her big a*s car.

So I signal her to move a little bit forward, where the road widens, so I can pass her and she can then back up into the street.

She looks in front of her, she looks at me in the mirror. She looks again in front of her and again in the mirror at me. Puts the car in reverse (the lights at the back light up) and starts to back up. I can't go anywhere so I honk my horn and try to somehow get out of the way, but I can't move as fast as she can back up. I brace for impact and she hits my front wheel and stops. I somehow manage to hold the bike up.
So now that she's backed into me, I pick the bike up and see that there is now enough space next to her window. I quickly pull up to her window to have a chat.

Me : Did you not see me? I know you saw me.
Her : Yes, yes I did.
Me : So when did it occur to you that it might be a good idea to run me over!?!?
Her : (Pauses for a second) Until now, whenever I backed up, people got out of the way. Why did you not clear the way so I can back up?

Realizing this might be the new queen of idiots, the new maximum of stupidity that I have thus far encountered in life, I feel like


I proceed to explain to her that she had no right of way and that the people behind her are under no obligation to make room for her (although they will generally make room, as nice people do).

Fortunately, nothing bad happened to me, nor to the bike, so I let her go, although I could have taken her to the police to have her licence.

Lesson 1 learned : don't get into places with no alternative ways out.
Lesson 2 learned : get a camera to film events for future legal reference

At least you're ok. It could have been a lot worse if she didn't stop.

Good use of the horn by the sounds of it.

Lol, you couldn't make it up. At least you are ok and no damadge occured I hope.

I'm ok and the bike is ok as well. Sometimes, I feel like too many people nowadays are too much of a menace and somehow the more idiotic they are, the bigger a car they buy to make up for it...
Maybe the org should group buy this :
http://www.milweb.net/classifieds/la...ad=61561&cat=1
and then we can have some post-accident resolutions..

there's certainly some retards on the roads like. in my old job there was this 1 mini roundabout on my way to work and every morning guaranteed without fail some knob would pull out on me as im turning right on the roundabout. funnily enough i did get knocked off 1 day on my way home and i had always thought that when it eventually happened it would be on that roundabout but it was on the main road a bit further down, and guess what the women driving said to me when she got out to see if i was ok... "sorry i didnt see you" lol and then when the police were questioning her, they asked "did i have his lights on" she replied "im not too sure, i think he did though" this is what we are up against lol

Blimey Andreis, you kept calm. You did better than I would have. Still I bet there's not many people to have been riding their bike and got reversed into? Or are there?

Usually slow speed accedents so usually your ok my dad had to jump from his bike when a truck decided to reverse into him.

[andrewsmith]

Originally Posted by davepreston

lesson 3 ,shoot all woman driving merc's

Lesson 4: Idiocy is a replacement for Common sense

LMFAO Its called the Mercedes Rule. Its in every owner Manual!

Frickin idiot. Glad you're OK.