Yes
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Probably
Probably not
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I think the driver did a good job of not avoiding him. Seemed to line him up perfectly even though he only had a Lada to do it with.
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Originally Posted by Jane Omorogbe from UK MSN on the KTM990SM
Do you think this could have benen avoided
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Out for a group ride. I had never met the guy who was riding the ZX-10 before. As I was slowing down he was still going fast and said he never saw the trailer. The gopro camera is mounted to the front of my Ducati 848 Evo. He survived the crash with only a broken arm and broken leg however he was airlifted to the hospital.
UK bikes have had headlamps hard-wired with the ignition since 2002/2003 - so it would have been on.
But even then, dipped beam is supposed to shine down on the road surface, with a cut-off to avoid low going higher - and the trucker's eye-line would have been about 3m above road height!
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The Lada driver couldn't have been at fault... he was wearing a hi-vis vest! The biker appeared to me to be going way too fast through the bollards.
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You could see the black truck moving over the white line at 0:27 already. The rider should have been covering his brakes when any other vehicles are present- for exacclty that reason. I might not have avoided hitting the truck, but would have slowed down a hell of a lot more. Also, when he did recognise that the truck started moving - that did not seem like emergency braking - he should have been able to stop a lot faster than that.
It looked like he was doing about 90-100kmh? When he hit the truck, he was still doing about 60kph.
Its tough in that situation - I was in the same one a couple of weeks back- you have to choose between braking or swerving, but you cant swerve until you have braked enough, and you are not sure that you will be able to brake enough. So do you swerve and lay the bike into the corner, holding on and hoping for the best, or do you brake hard as you can and as long as you can, bleeding off as much speed as possible, and take the risk of hitting the truck? I think the option of being hit, but at low speed, is probably safer than taking a corner too hot and sliding out into the other truck.. its a fine choice though...
Ooops, and why is this exactly?
Bike with no (or poor) headllight hidden in the shadows between the tall trees perhaps? Get a brighter headlight. Put the fucker on fullbeam except when it's not appropriate.
Slow down in closing or convoluted environments where there is traffic crossing. Pay exceedingly careful attention to any hint of movement from any vehicle that CAN cross your lane (not MIGHT).
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