Timely Reminder: Think Carefully Before Viewing.

This vid seems wrong for any number of reasons, but might just make you think about your riding and other road users. The contents are pretty graphic so do NOT watch this if you're easily upset.

http://petrongelli.com/motorbikin/badr1accident.wmv

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There has been a request to remove this post, I'm not going to yet, but if there are more objections that might change, if you think you may be offended or upset or whatever, DON'T WATCH THE CLIP

Incredibly sobering. Ride safe people.

Please delete this post, this video does nothing and should not be on here, it is more suited to Ogrish.

Originally Posted by Patch

Please delete this post, this video does nothing and should not be on here, it is more suited to Ogrish.

Sorry Patch. I don't agree. This clip is nothing like you get on Ogrish. They celebrate gore and violence. That is not my intention. The accident itself is not shown. Only the aftermath. And as M65 says, that is the sobering part.

The next time I feel like riding like a hooligan, I hope I remember this clip. Cos after an accident - whether it's my fault or someone else's - others are left to pick up the pieces.

QUITE RIGHT! leave the clip it stands out an an account of an accident scene that millions of people will never whitness and so not know how bad dangerous driving/riding can get and the results at the end of the day. as someone that has never whitnessed this first hand i find this video insightfull and sobering. it certainly makes me reconsider the way i ride.

bloomin' heck........ not sure I wanna see too much of this kind of stuff, but a timely reminder indeed..... Could it make a part of the CBT? It WOULD make me think a bit more before getting on the bike......Bloomin' heck....

[timwilky]

Thats horrible. It certainly made me think so for the right reasons and some not

Right reasons were what caused this and I think it is fairly obvious that the car turned left infront of the bike. But judging to the damage to the car/bike and position of car on traffic island I guess the poor sod on the Yam was hoofing it a little.

Wrong reasons
Voyerism.

But what the hell were people doing shifting evidence. I am just glad the guy was there with his camera to show evidence was being moved

Yep, that ain't nice but for people like me it serves a purpose. As my confidence on the bike grows day by day through riding seeing things like that just makes me think before the over confidence sets in and i start riding beyond my abilities, certainly made me think.

Poor fella, he must have hit that car at a fair old rate though.

[embee]

It's not voyeurism, it's reality. Too much these days is sanitised, and it does no harm to see the hard reality of what happens.

All bikers should see stuff like this. I suspect this is pretty clean and tidy compared to a lot of what the emergency service folks have to deal with daily.

As said before, you don't get that sort of mechanical damage at 30mph, and yes it appears the car was turning across the road (driving on right, turning left). Just goes to reinforce the advice that you have to assume they haven't seen you and they will turn across or emerge from a sideroad.

The best defence you have is your imagination, just think what could or might happen ahead, and if in doubt, don't.

Live to ride another day.

No words really...

A poignant reminder.