Thread: Bizarre Motorcycle Crash Caught On Camera + Video

By Troy Siahaan March 20, 2014



Motorcyclists are well aware of the danger other vehicles pose, especially those with four wheels and inattentive drivers. This video brings to life in dramatic fashion every rider’s worst nightmare — a careless driver pulling out in front of you with no time to react, resulting in a spectacular crash.


This video, posted last week, is already starting to become a viral hit. Mainly because of the sheer carelessness of the car driver. It happened in the UK, which means no, the child sitting in the front left passenger seat is not driving the car. As you can see, the two riders are riding along this main road at what the first pilot says is about 30-33 mph, when for no apparent reason, the car driver in the opposing lane decides to suddenly turn right directly in front of the motorcyclists.


I must say, the rider shows incredible restraint considering what he had just been through. Many people likely wouldn’t have been as calm. What do you think of this vid? Is there anything the rider could have done differently to possibly avoid the collision? Or was it just a freak circumstance? Tell us what you think below.


Thankfully, nobody was seriously injured.

Looked like a 30mph limit, bikes were travelling no less than 30,

hard question to say, you can ride defensively all day but its hard to stop someone crossing the line infront of you (head on) or rear ending you in the lane your in ,
lap of the Gods!

Seemed a bit quicker than 33mph. The car driver couldn't have seen the bike to swing across like that. Glad no one was hurt.

yes , i always ride with highbeam on during daylight hrs to help with that problem,

Fuckn moron. (Car driver)

Almost all road accidents are the result of driver error so no different here but glad to see that no serious injuries to the motorcyclist occurred.

Looking at the vid, the shadows were long which suggests that the lady car driver may have had the sun in her eyeline before turning. Always best to stop and check when not having 100%/clear vision.

Originally Posted by Tickiteboo

Seemed a bit quicker than 33mph.

Even if??

Originally Posted by FloridaBorn

Originally Posted by Tickiteboo

Seemed a bit quicker than 33mph.

Even if??

Just an observation, probably down to camera angles and all that shit.

Certainly not trying to remove the blame from the car driver (bet it was a woman )

I had a very similar accident to this back in the mid 80's. I had a little more time to react but took the bumper off the car with my knee. My pillion presented it to the female car driver in a less than friendly manner. To be fair, she was learning to drive and her husband was in the passenger seat. Both were a lot more shaken up than we were although I had a gammy knee for a month or two.

Friend had a similar accident on a roundabout with woman pulling out in front of him. The next day she knocked him off his other bike on the same roundabout performing the same trick...

Originally Posted by Tickiteboo

Originally Posted by FloridaBorn

Originally Posted by Tickiteboo

Seemed a bit quicker than 33mph.

Even if??

Certainly not trying to remove the blame from the car driver (bet it was a woman )

It is, you can see her clearly checking her child, she has long blonde hair, which is why the rider didn't jump through the window (probably not becaase of her hair length or color though) , it's obvious he started to feel his bumps shortly thereafter too once the adrenaline began to wear off.

Lucky he was alright after that.

Some drivers are just brain dead.



Particularly the English.

Oh, I thought you were going to say Blondes?

Originally Posted by FloridaBorn

I was rear ended by 2 ladies just a few weeks ago the first one was stopped in time though, the second must have been texting there was plenty of time for her to stop but she didn't.

I think they were probably in ecstasy filming themselves rear ending you.

Do mind yer back box in future eh.

Originally Posted by chassamui

Originally Posted by FloridaBorn

I was rear ended by 2 ladies just a few weeks ago the first one was stopped in time though, the second must have been texting there was plenty of time for her to stop but she didn't.

I think they were probably in ecstasy filming themselves rear ending you.

Do mind yer back box in future eh.

The thought had crossed my mind briefly then reality set in and both were cows unfortunately.. So no prostate milking this time, kind of throws cold water all over the fantasy..

The driver was lucky she got hit by a bike. A small child in the passenger seat could have been killed by the force of a car hitting side on like that. I agree probably sun in her eyes, but having said that still no excuse.

Originally Posted by Sailing into trouble

A small child in the passenger seat could have been killed by the force of a car hitting side on like that. I agree probably sun in her eyes, but having said that still no excuse.

Yep 2 more reasons to be even more cautious..

Young child in the car, a distracted female driver. Probably fussing over the child. Distracted driving is not all about just cell phones.

I have kids in my car all the time, they distract but they've been taught differently since their youth so mostly they ride very well having been taught the dangers very young.

Now that you bring it up though that child looks too young to be riding in the front seat anyway with airbags, but in this case probably a good thing she was, though if in the back seat would likely be less of a distraction. But mostly it's about cell phones either texting or talking, seldom do children distract to that level if taught properly, if not? Still her fault.

Or she was talking on her mobile phone.

Guys, I agree with most of the above, and as a biker I immediately jump to rider's defence, but...

Speed aside (assume they were travelling at the speed limit, whatever that was), on the video the car started to pull out around two seconds before the impact, yet the bike didn't seem to slow, change course or anything.

Yes the car was in the wrong but - if the rider had even noticed the car waiting to turn right - it seems he had simply assumed that the car had also noticed him and so he had turned his attention elsewhere.

In fairness I'm not sure that swerving to go behind the car would be a good option unless he knew there was nothing coming, I just would have expected to see some sort of reaction from the rider prior to the collision given the speed of the car and the point of impact 2/3rds of the way along its side.

I've had two major bike crashes and even though the blame has on both times been fully attributable to the other party, deep down I know I could have avoided each of the accidents if I'd been concentrating a little more.

Glad he was OK.

Originally Posted by Roobarb

Guys, I agree with most of the above, and as a biker I immediately jump to rider's defence, but...

Speed aside (assume they were travelling at the speed limit, whatever that was), on the video the car started to pull out around two seconds before the impact, yet the bike didn't seem to slow, change course or anything.

Yes the car was in the wrong but - if the rider had even noticed the car waiting to turn right - it seems he had simply assumed that the car had also noticed him and so he had turned his attention elsewhere.

If you watch the first bit of the vid, from the victims camera, he had roughly one second from the time the car crossed the double white line until he hit it. Simple physics really- If he was traveling at 30mph it means he's going 45 feet per second and hitting the brakes one second before impact, there's is no way he could avoid hitting that car...

Here's the crash again in slow motion- note how quickly the rider gets on the brakes- pretty good reflexes imo, and he was able to scrub off a lot of speed but still couldn't avoid the collision:

Bike accident slow mo closeup on Vimeo

^ Yup, fair enough, his brake light came on just after the car pulled out.

I mustn't assume everyone is as bad a rider as myself...