Insurance question (filtering)

[nodrog:Me]

Timmaaaaay!

[BlackSheepLogic]

Appreciate the helpful replies. It's also good to see this place is still has people who are morally superior to everyone else, just wouldn't be the same otherwise ... Yes I made a mistake, it was probably a bad judgement but it generally takes two people to have an accident -- and sometimes they may both be in the wrong.

Mistakes you learn from and we all make them, however you have to be critical of your actions and not so much about what everyone else could/should have done. You had the best visibility, as well as the option to abort the risky maneuver had you payed attention to the vehicle you were passing/cutting in front of.

While in this case two vehicles were involved the higher contributing factors in this case was yours as it was your decision to execute the maneuver. You could have predicted the strong possibility that the gap would close also and insured you had a fall back option.

Ask yourself what would you have done had you been the driver who was cut off by a bike trying to go around them. Their blind spot may not have given the viability of your bike in time. Perhaps a more attentive driver may have picked you up sooner and avoided the accident, but you should never rely on the abilities of other road users to mitigate an unsafe action you take.

While the advice/reaction your got from others here may seem critical & judgmental, it is also constructive advice in preventing a similar situation from occurring again.

[rastuscat]

Appreciate the helpful replies. It's also good to see this place is still has people who are morally superior to everyone else, just wouldn't be the same otherwise ... Yes I made a mistake, it was probably a bad judgement but it generally takes two people to have an accident -- and sometimes they may both be in the wrong.

Robert Kiyosaki of Rich Dad Poor Dad fame totally changed my personal attitude to mistakes.

Our society is so busy seeking revenge on those who make mistakes that we have lost the opportunity for mistakes to become an opportunity to learn.

These days I even encourage my 16 year old to make mistakes, as that's how we can learn life's lessons.

Take the focus off whose fault a mistake is and we'd be able to learn far more from them. I bet the OP will be more careful arising from his wee bin, and that's the best of it.

We're so busy trying to be in the right, we often miss the lesson.

Old piece of advice. If you lose, don't lose the lesson.