Thursday's Dominion Rd crash killing a biker

[offrd]

Well guys, ride safe out there, all the car drivers may well be out to kill you.

However im sure each and every one of us has one something stupid that could have ended this way for us also....

In this case speed looks to have been a factor, and from what i have heard the bike was in the bus lane travelling at speed....
Yes the rim is split, the frame is also bent, the forks are bent and most of the front of the bike is nothing but mush....

The car has taken quite an impact, its set off the curtain airbags, bent the a pillar both at the screen and right down thru the door hinge area, and its gone in a fair bloody way.

The bike was looking at it, rather poor condition, chrome screwed, paint poor, whole bike rather weathered...
I am not sure of the mechanical condition of either vehicle as im off on holiday and have not spoken to my friend the serious crash vehicle inspector (mechanical condition) or any of the scu....
Sadly for this rider and family and extended whanau, its going to be a shit christmas.....

FFS dont any of you end up with your bikes in our yard along side this one.

Merry christmas!

Your kids/family want you home safe, every prick is in a mad rush! SO BE CAREFUL

Oh and if someone cuts you off, chase them down and smash of their mirror, might make them LOOK HARDER next time!

Dont quote me on this, Its not official, just what i heard and what i have seen and my own meandering thoughts...

Wear sunscreen

cu

[Katman]

No doubt the bike haters and Katman will blame the bike rider but it would appear the bike simply wasn't seen in this instance.

Feeling a little bit stupid yet Graham?

[swbarnett]

Yeah, you are right that it doesn't use extrapolation, it actually uses interpolation.
Some links for your interest:
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These links support what I have posted - the brain is doing a lot of processing and what is seen by the eye isn't all that makes up what we see.

Indeed they do. My only source was a documentery or two from decades back. It seems that things have moved on since then.

[MarkH]

Indeed they do. My only source was a documentery or two from decades back. It seems that things have moved on since then.

There's still a crap load that we don't understand about the brain - what it can do is so amazing & complicated. There should be more in depth studies of the SMIDSY phenomenon IMO. They should study how to get through to drivers that they need to look more carefully, there must be a way to get people to learn to look carefully and pay attention.

[Highlander]

Was it half way down Dominion Rd?...

By the Halfway House you think?

[Katman]

They should study how to get through to drivers that they need to look more carefully, there must be a way to get people to learn to look carefully and pay attention.

Perhaps they should study how to get through to motorcyclists that exceeding the speed limit in traffic congested areas is all too often going to end in tears.

[MSTRS:Me]

Perhaps they should study how to get through to motorcyclists that exceeding the speed limit in traffic congested areas is all too often going to end in tears.

Halle-fucken-luya

[Katman]

See, what concerns me most is that, while this accident shows every sign of having involved a motorcyclist who had no regard for his own safety, no regard for his pillions safety, no regard for the safety of the others sharing the road with him and no regard for the rules that supposedly govern us all, the fact that many of you seem to be solely focused on the idea that this was a 'sorry I didn't see you' case shows that there's still far too many motorcyclists who are unwilling to accept that ultimately we are responsible for our own welfare.

We have to lose the culture of always trying to find someone else to blame.

[BoristheBiter]

I watched that invisible worlds with Richard Hammond and in that he basically said we don't see fast enough to see all what we are looking at due to the brain not being able to process it, so if you quickly look left then right chances are the you will miss something so hence SMIDSY.