Crashed last night :(

[Bibio]

you were going way to fast on the inside for that amount of traffic in a built up area.. i seen the gap/junction and gaps with junctions mean other vehicles crossing your path.

bad luck. next time open your eyes and slow down. if that car had been a pedestrian you would have killed them.

[21QUEST]

Also, from what I can make out, there wasn't a bus lane at the point the incident occured...you were just undertaking...

With that in mind, I'm not sure if the video would actually count in your favour. You could roll the dice and get a 'muppet' working on behalf of the third party but any person/firm worth something should spot the obvious and be able to argue 'shared fault'....

You are very possibly going to need quite a bit of luck for it to go 100% in your favour.

"oooffft!"

Sorry to hear/see your off, at least you're mostly in one piece.

Dont take the comments to heart, learn from them, accidents happen, some are more avoidable than others. We just need to do our best to prevent them. Your ego will be as bruised as your arm just shortly!

GWS

Hmm nasty. Hope your wounds heal quickly

From your point of view, your just riding along in a bus lane at the speed limit. However, if i was driving that focus, i think id be struggling to see aswel. You werent exactly going slow and he does have the length of his bonnet sticking out before he can see.

Im not saying its anyones fault but i dont think your speed and road positioning helped.

I just feel its unfair to blame the focus driver that was trying to slowly edge out, what else was he supposed to do?

Hope i dont offend anyone or spark an arguement, just my view.

Cheers
Oli

Get well soon buddy

Originally Posted by Bibio

if that car had been a pedestrian you would have killed them.

A similar thing happened right in front of me just after my CBT (I hired a 125 for a week).

I was on the A13 road in London and was in the bus lane riding a bit cautiously (I'd been T-Boned 6 days earlier). Another bike rode past me and crashed into a pedestrian who appeared suddenly from behind the stationary cars in traffic while trying to cross.

The pedestrian was knocked off his feet flying high........the biker didn't stop; instead he sped off!!

Forgot to say Get Well Soon.

Originally Posted by RobbieSV

That sucks mate, looks like Holloway road? I go up there all the time, could easily have been me.

Get well soon.

Oh, and as already mentioned, tasty girl

Spot on, Opposite the gulf garage

I agree I probably should have been going slower I agree and is one of the things I have mentioned to Police, Paramedics and my insurance but from when I saw the car to when I hit it seems vastly longer in the video and I can guarantee id have hit it even doing half the speed I was, maybe not as bad but there would still have been a collision.

Camera is a Drift HD.

As for the comments on a bus lane not being there where I was, The bus lane actually starts at 12 seconds then the markings disappear for the junction and the turn but is still a double width road and a bus lane.

Thanks all for the GWS messages finding it incredibly awkward with only 1 arm\hand but surprisingly the insurance compamy have offered me a hire bike despite the fact i cannot ride it lol.

[aesmith]

That's what I thought re the bus lane - bus lane continues but there's a gap to allow traffic into the side road. A bus would continue as you did.

[Biker Biggles]

That looks 100% liability to the car to me.You had right of way and the car crossed against that.Having said that I would treat it as a huge learning event and think long and hard about what happened and why.