Originally Posted by Baph

Yup, I do that pretty much every time I'm on the bike. However, the video is in LA, and in LA, as the OP states, "lane splitting" aka filtering is illegal. If you crash or not, it's illegal.

For that reason, the decision can only go against the biker, because they shouldn't of been there doing what they were doing.

But even if that happened in the UK, I'd of still said it was the bikers fault, despite filtering like that myself. As Gene Genie said, poor obs.