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A Typical Motorcycle Accident Caused by a Cager Cutting off A Motorcycle. Check out this Video!

04/24/08

A Typical Motorcycle Accident Caused by a Cager Cutting off A Motorcycle. Check out this Video!

11:38:20 pm, by Norman Gregory Fernandez, Esq.

, 274 words, 913 views

Categories: Articles, Education, Cagers, Videos, Motorcycle Accidents, Editorial, Riding Your Motorcycle, California Motorcycle Accident, Motorcycle Accidents

Here is a video which demonstrates a classic cager v. motorcycle scenario whereby a cager cuts off a motorcycle and causes the motorcycle to crash, probably causing severe personal injuries to the motorcyclist.

First off there is no excusing the cager whatsoever for causing this motorcycle accident. The car has a duty of due care to ensure that there is no one in the other lane before changing lanes. The video clearly shows that the biker owned the lane, and was clearly not at fault in this accident. I handle motorcycle cases such as this on a daily basis. Most of the time there is not video like this to show what actually happened in a motorcycle accident.

From the video it appears at least to me that the accident could have probably been avoided had the biker been riding slower. You may agree with me that it appears that the car took a bit of time before the biker hit the car. Had the biker been going slower, this accident probably could have been avoided.

What is the lesson learned by this video; Ride like you are invisible. If you are on city streets or highways, anticipate that some idiot is going to cut in front of you in their car. Ride defensively and always try to leave yourself a way out.

Obviously, there are times when there is flat out nothing that you can do, however, the lesson of this video is that riding slower on city streets and highways where cars and cagers will be entering and changing lanes may save your life!

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Comment from: Gary [Visitor]

Good article Norm. Yes, it looks like the motorcycle was going pretty fast and seems he should have seen the cager moving over into his lane from way back. Maybe he was looking to the side or something.

I do a lot of distance cycling and must anticipate all situations every minute, however remote a accident may seem, even looking for a place to ditch the bike on the shoulder should a cager cut me off. Cars cutting in front of you and just plain creeping close to you is very common, many of these cagers are yakking away on cellphones, oblivious to anything else and now they have something even worse, "texting".

I believe perhaps they should prosecute irresponsible car driving resulting in a accident as a crime with the same penalty as using a gun or knife.

G

Permalink 04/25/08 @ 05:00

Comment from: Norman Gregory Fernandez, Esq. [Member]

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Thanks Gary. I agree with you 100%

Norm

Permalink 04/25/08 @ 11:10

Comment from: LA_Computer_repair_dude [Visitor]

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I feel for the biker, and yeah, he may have been going over the speed limit but at the risk of sounding shallow, I always fear the older clunker cars on the road the most- usually driven by older folks or people who don't care too much about driving less road-worthy cars (and don't care too much about your safety either.)

Permalink 05/13/08 @ 21:43

Comment from: Nice Blog posts I'll be sure to send this along [Visitor]

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Like the blog. Ill make sure to put it up on mine

Permalink 08/07/08 @ 16:59

Comment from: Paul Ajlouny [Visitor]

I agree that the motorcycle rider should have been going a little slower, but that car had no right changing about three lanes over unexpectedly. Wow, thanks for the blog and the video.

Permalink 09/09/08 @ 18:45

Comment from: Norman Gregory Fernandez, Esq. [Member]

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You are right Paul. There is no doubt that the car is at fault. Nonetheless, the biker should have seen this coming. This is an accident that probably could have been avoided.

Thanks for your comments about the blog, and good luck in your practice.

Norm

Permalink 09/09/08 @ 19:06

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