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Originally Posted by Peter Henry
I agree you would have thought the driver would have been even more vigilant before pulling out?
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Agreed. However.. this happens to me once or twice a week. Yet so far I'm still in one piece. Sorry but to expect higher standards of driving from a police officer is a bit much. To me that just looks like a normal patrol car. Not the car of a trained pursuit driver. I might be wrong on this though.
I think though that the driver standards of a police officer and upholder of the law should be beyond reproach and IMHO in this case his actions are certainly a contributing cause in what looks like a very nasty accident.
You could argue that if the biker hadnt been up on the back wheel he would have had more time to react to the car pulling out in front of him. He would also have had his front wheel on the ground and been able to use the most effective brake to slow him down i.e the front one.
I agree with Ping though. It does look like the car driver pulled out on purpose