Biker down and it's all his fault

[Katman]

I witnessed the dumbest car move in the history of recodes..... My mate was heading down a road, me following about 30-50m behind. In front of my mate was a 4x4 with a horse float. He was a good 40m behind it. The silly fat B*&^ in the 4x4 indicates left then crosses over into incoming lane drastically and slams on picks, both us and oncoming cars completely confused, my mate goes into evasive action and heads left skidding sideways on wet road and ploughs into ditch, I follow but stay upright, guy behind me also stays upright but hits trailer. Oncoming car from other direction slams on picks and heads into bush on side of road, Dizzy bitch in 4x4 keeps swerving and pulls back into driveway on left.
Trailer got T boned and she pulls into drive.
Fat rotund horse lover gets out all abusive and lays into my mate who has a broken leg and seriously mangled foot, driver from other side restrains her and threatens to slap her for his troubles, everyone is nuts except my mate.

Long story short, mate got charged for dangerous driving fined and 6 months in hospital......... Popo were nasty and wouldn't listen to eye witness acounts. Fresh out of popo school and full of popo juice.

Your mate needs to learn to ride with his brain engaged.

A 4x4 towing a horse float is very likely going to need to swing out to the right in order to negotiate a left turn.

[Mihajlo]

Phew, here i was to think i'm to blame Anyway bit of an update, i've decided to keep my bike seeing the majority of the damage is superficial, going to convert it to a street fighter.

[Mihajlo]

To avoid more confusion here's an expertly drawn diagram of the situation

[steve_t]

That's better at explaining what's happened. By the look of your drawing, it's the turning car's fault. It didn't give way to you. There was a cyclist killed a few months ago where the car was turning into a driveway. I guess it's gonna be a test of whether or not it's OK to pass on the left of vehicles that are stationary.

[Katman]

That's better at explaining what's happened. By the look of your drawing, it's the turning car's fault. It didn't give way to you. There was a cyclist killed a few months ago where the car was turning into a driveway. I guess it's gonna be a test of whether or not it's OK to pass on the left of vehicles that are stationary.

You're kidding, right?

[Mihajlo]

I believe that's what's fucking me up the most, the fact i was on the left.

[JohnR]

Am I the only one who doesn't understand what's actually happened here?

Er......No!? Where's the horse float in the picture?

[JudaBaker]

Yer thats definitely your fault. If there's enough room for a car to pull through you should be looking or slowing down or both. Not just blindly riding through where you can't see what's coming at you.

More in response to steve_t's post than the op. If your going down the left where you can't see anything you shouldn't be going fast enough that you can't stop, That's just dumb.

[Mihajlo]

Oh i know, hence why i'm not moving blame.

[JudaBaker]

Yea I know was more trying to get point across to the guy who though it was the car drivers fault.