High viz fail - a vest won't help

**skippa1** · 14th June 2014, 18:41

**unstuck** · 14th June 2014, 18:48

WTF.......

**SMOKEU** · 14th June 2014, 18:54

That cager must have been sniffing too much fresh air again.

**unstuck** · 14th June 2014, 18:55

Originally Posted by SMOKEU

That cager must have been sniffing too much fresh air again.

Dude on the bike was too.

**SMOKEU** · 14th June 2014, 19:10

Originally Posted by unstuck

Dude on the bike was too.

It wouldn't surprise me.

**Oakie** · 14th June 2014, 19:14

Ambulance got there fast huh! Actually it was posted here a couple of years ago.

Wouldn't say it's a Hi-viz fail either. I mean what can you do if the driver didn't see a cop bike parked on the road with red/blues flashing. Hi viz is pretty secondary in this case. Says a lot about the driver and nothing about hi-viz imho.

**R650R** · 14th June 2014, 19:36

What a bizzare technique, traffic not even heavy enough to warrant the escort...

**Pumba** · 14th June 2014, 19:40

Would say the high vis worked great. That cage driver was totally fixated on it. Note the car turning with the biker dismounting the bike.

**oneofsix** · 14th June 2014, 20:37

If anything about hi-viz it show why it will never work. If three cars all head straight for all lights and siren cops bikes they aren't going to give a flying fuk about an average bike in a attractive jerkin.

Noted all the drivers had good lane discipline, they all stayed in lane 1 unless overtaking, wished kiwis could get their heads around that one.

**G4L4XY** · 14th June 2014, 20:42

Worse if it was the truck that hit him...but still pretty keen to sit in traffic like that.

**tigertim20** · 14th June 2014, 20:55

Originally Posted by Oakie

Ambulance got there fast huh! Actually it was posted here a couple of years ago.

Wouldn't say it's a Hi-viz fail either. I mean what can you do if the driver didn't see a cop bike parked on the road with red/blues flashing. Hi viz is pretty secondary in this case. Says a lot about the driver and nothing about hi-viz imho.

fuck off with your well thought out and reasonable responses. Theres no place for that shit on KB!!!

**Dave-** · 14th June 2014, 21:39

How does that video illustrate that high visibility doesn't 'help'?

**caspernz** · 14th June 2014, 21:51

Looks to me like two numpty road users meeting unintentionally, and only one of them is wearing a police uniform...

**pritch** · 14th June 2014, 22:09

Originally Posted by Oakie

Says a lot about the driver and nothing about hi-viz imho.

Not sure. If the driver didn't see the flashing lights or the hi-viz, that might be an indication that people who place their faith in hi-viz are overly optimistic.

There was an accident in town this week where a woman in a car came out of a side street and T boned a Harley. "Didn't see you."
He definitely wasn't wearing hi-viz. Not a 1%er, but he could be mistaken for one, he had three headlights on, all to no avail.

The good news is that he's OK and someone has loaned him a bike while his is being repaired.