cinek
MB Enthusiast
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.
I dont think that yellow car, or any other vehicle driving into the officer was part of that procedure.
If he stopped on the hatched area (between on-slip and main carriageway), chances of oncoming traffic moving over from lane 1 to lane 2 would be minimal.
Watch the fly-escort units in UK, they would do exactly the same thing, which is to park across live lanes of traffic to create a physical block.
You can see the rider giving hand gestures from 0:08s, whilst he is still off the live lane. At this stage he is clearly visible to the lorry driver, who makes no attempt to move over.
Only few seconds later, when he gets his bike right in the live lane, the lorry driver decides to get over to lane 2.
There are several seconds gap, in which the driver of the yellow car would have seen the rider stopped ahead of him. But there is no indication whatsoever, that he as much as attempted to move over.
And its not that he had another vehicle beside him at that time, stopping him from getting to the lane two.
It looks as the driver was in fact asleep, or texting, or blindfolded.
Is such blockade safe? Of course not, but its what they do.
Regarding the speed build up, that something completely different, e.g. joining from complete stand still,after stopping on the hard shoulder.