Police motorbiker accident

[DSB SL AMG]

Brilliant...I like Brazilian justice...great way to deal with scum thieves

Bike thief owned.

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[ibrahimx2001]

Pilot fakes plane trouble, then proposes - YouTube

 

[George Douglas]

This thread is just like having a YouTube night

 

[TDE1]

Considering he had full bike protection, including a helmet, that sounds about right.

I've been deliberately whacked and sent flying with no protection...but I died.

Knew you'd been run down, DM, didn't realise it was quite that serious. Hope the recovery is going well.

To the OP, a warning would have been a good idea for the faint-of-heart.

A poor decision by the police motorcycle rider. Had the lorry driver not been paying attention, it would not be on Youtube.

 

[Marvin16x]

Youtube logic: it's alright to show people dying, people shooting each other, people killing animals, blood and gore everywhere.
But when there's half a female nipple showing that's considered an unacceptable circumstance, so bad for children's eyes, bla bla.

"Bring on the world cup" ... oh yeah aren't we looking forward to that

 

[Teflonso]

I'm far from an expert on road tactics but sitting in the nearside lane at a junction didn't seem like the brightest of ideas.

Ditto. I thought they always did rolling road blocks to slow the traffic progressively?

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[Giantvanman]

Ditto. I thought they always did rolling road blocks to slow the traffic progressively?

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Probably true. But how, in this instance, when he wanted to move traffic over to allow clearly a very urgent ambulance to move from the slip road could he put in a rolling road block? Ride the wrong way along the dual carriageway and turn round?
Escorted ambulance runs are rare and only for the most urgent cases. Perhaps his concern for the patient in the ambulance overtook his judgement.

But, as far as I am concerned, his only mistake was believing that an adult wearing day-glow yellow on a large day-glow bike would be clearly visible when parked side on to oncoming traffic. With lights flashing.

Shouldn't we be questioning why the idiot car driver didn't see and react sooner to the flashing pile of yellow cloth, plastic and metal obstructing their path?

The end of a rant by an ex-motorcyclist.

 

[cinek]

This wasn't a tolling block and it didnt look like an ambulance escort.
Its more of a 'meat wagon' been escorted with some high profile crook inside.

Police escorts work completely different to rolling blocks and as such as used for different purposes.

Pulling in the live lane and waving traffic over may seem dangerous, but its a standard practice in such escorts.

It was the driver of that yellow car who failed to observe the road conditions and what lays ahead.

 

[st13phil]

Considering he had full bike protection, including a helmet, that sounds about right.

I think you overestimate the effectiveness of protective motorcycle clothing.

In a "slide down the road" scenario then good quality clothing will almost always guarantee survival. Once you come into contact with another vehicle, road furniture, or other solid object it's much more of a lottery. With the exception of the head protection that a helmet provides, there's not that much energy absorption provided by motorcycle clothing

 

[Stratman]

A friend of mine has just posted this

 

[st13phil]

That was uncomfortably close to buying the farm...

 

[cinek]

With the exception of the head protection that a helmet provides, there's not that much energy absorption provided by motorcycle clothing

But there is.
Effects of friction sustained whilst sliding across of tarmac, are absorbed by the set of leathers which are being scrapped instead of your own skin.
This is extended to boots and gloves as well.

 

[moonloops]

A friend of mine has just posted this

That "damage" was not due to the accident

 

[cinek]

That "damage" was not due to the accident

You are probably right, the edges of the main damage are too smooth. The extent of helmet abrasion would suggest a high speed incident, which would result in more of erratic abrasion, oppose to singular, localised damage.

When coming off your bike, you will bounce off the tarmac, possibly roll over several times before complete halt.

Damage to that helmet looks like someone pushed it against sand belt grinder.

 

[Teflonso]

Probably true. But how, in this instance, when he wanted to move traffic over to allow clearly a very urgent ambulance to move from the slip road could he put in a rolling road block? Ride the wrong way along the dual carriageway and turn round?
Escorted ambulance runs are rare and only for the most urgent cases. Perhaps his concern for the patient in the ambulance overtook his judgement.

But, as far as I am concerned, his only mistake was believing that an adult wearing day-glow yellow on a large day-glow bike would be clearly visible when parked side on to oncoming traffic. With lights flashing.

Shouldn't we be questioning why the idiot car driver didn't see and react sooner to the flashing pile of yellow cloth, plastic and metal obstructing their path?

The end of a rant by an ex-motorcyclist.

I don't want to be picky here, especially as I know nothing about biking, other than having spent half a year in a rehab unit - over half of the other patients were bikers and it was always someone else's fault, never theirs. New road surface, idiot turning right in front of cyclist overtaking, idiot fails to see biker coming up the inside in his own special middle lane - I heard them all. The best one was biker giving it the beans around a bend in the middle of the road when another biker comes the other way doing the same thing. I guess it wasn't either of their faults that some idiot but a bend in the road.

Watch the video. Instead of waiting for a gap in the traffic the cop pulls out 100m in front of an artic, which is forced to move over. The car behind moves over too. The yellow car is unsighted until about 20m before impact. The only mistake the cop made was not following the golden rule of advanced driving - assume everyone else is an idiot. Yes, yes, the yellow car shouldn't have been so close. That's an incredibly rare event, isn't it? No seasoned traffic cop could possibly have expected that on a busy two lane highway.

Urgent ambulance transfers, if that is what it was and not a meat wagon are arranged in advance, and planned with military precision. So no, I wouldn't have expected him to drive the wrong way down the carriageway to set up a block, I would have expected it to have been done from the previous junction.

While we're at it, I'm at a loss to understand why he needed to close a lane. Don't Dutch drivers let ambulances out at motorway junctions?

End of rant by man fed up of being cut up by invincible bikers.


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[st13phil]

But there is.
Effects of friction sustained whilst sliding across of tarmac, are absorbed by the set of leathers which are being scrapped instead of your own skin.
This is extended to boots and gloves as well.

Quite correct. My post should have said "there's not that much impact energy absorption provided by motorcycle clothing".

 

[dubsR33]

ugh that was pretty rank to watch as a fellow biker..


if a want to see horrible stuff like that i go to liveleak, otherwise i want nice/info/cool/good stuff from here etc

 

[cinek]

Urgent ambulance transfers, if that is what it was and not a meat wagon are arranged in advance, and planned with military precision. So no, I wouldn't have expected him to drive the wrong way down the carriageway to set up a block, I would have expected it to have been done from the previous junction.



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But he didnt drive the wrong way down the carriageway.

Without sounding patronising, you do know that in Dutch land traffic drives on the right-hand.
They came on from the on-slip, with the lead unit waving traffic away from lane 1, to allow quick merge.

I can honestly say, I cant see anything wrong in the procedure applied by the cops.
Thinking about the Seat's driver on the other hand, driving without due car and attention springs to my mind.

 

[renault12ts]

But he didnt drive the wrong way down the carriageway.

Without sounding patronising, you do know that in Dutch land traffic drives on the right-hand.
They came on from the on-slip, with the lead unit waving traffic away from lane 1, to allow quick merge.

I can honestly say, I cant see anything wrong in the procedure applied by the cops.
Thinking about the Seat's driver on the other hand, driving without due car and attention springs to my mind.

The Seat driver was asleep, but even if he hadn't been, each subsequent car would have got closer and closer to the cop...and the accident would still have happened.

 

[brucemillar]

I can honestly say, I cant see anything wrong in the procedure applied by the cops.

Hmmmm. I spotted something very wrong in the procedure. That being the yellow Seat that drove into him. ;^)

It just looks like he wasn't giving anybody much of a chance to spot him on a busy heavily congested dual carriageway.

As we are told. Dont just pull out onto the carriageway. Gradually build up speed then match your speed. It looked somewhat lucky that the artic was able to find clear road in the traffic that allowed it to move out a lane.