Mother allows release of hard-hitting footage of her son's motorcyle death on A47

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I saw this as a news item on our local news last night --- made me cringe

but after watching the vid twice , it beggars the question why the fook didn't he back off and hit the brakes a bit after seeing traffic waiting to turn across his path .

this area is local to me and I know the junction very well , and always drive/ride accordingly as drivers in this part of the world seem to be very unobservant .
 
I think the accident was inevitable after reading " the driver admitted to police in interview that he had not seen David, nor a car behind the motorcycle, prior to the collision"

If David was going slower the results might not have been fatal, possibly even avoidable.

It will definitely make me think (more) when i'm out next and approaching junctions... which is the whole point of the video.
 
Bad watch, sad loss for the family. However i do believe the rider hadnt helped himself, like what has been said before he was speeding quite a bit, if he had seen the cars waiting to cross he might have avoided the collision if he had just backed off. Hindsight is a wonderfull thing, the video will make me think twice when im hooning it up to a corner or junction on a t.
 
After watching this and having just come back from the Manx where I saw some serious incidents, it makes you realise that when things go wrong, it happens very quickly.

Auto pilot sometimes kicks in, natural reactions might save you, but on a lot of occasions, there is not enough time to think and actively do something to avoid an accident.

Even the greatest and best sometimes get it wrong.

RIP.
 
I went through a spell when I had my gixxer 1k where I felt almost invincible.

The bike was so well sorted it could handle anything I threw at it with ease and I began to get complacent.

Eventually I took one liberty too much and ended up in the high depndancy unit of Ninewells hospital in Dundee.

I consider myself extremely lucky to have escaped with "only" a broken vertebrae, 7 broken ribs, 1 flail segment and a punctured lung.

I could have easily died because I was riding like a cnut.

The point to this post is: I was lucky enough to get a second chance and learn from my mistakes. Unfortunately David wasn't.

I actually feel quite emotional typing this and rembering just how lucky I was.

R.I.P David
 
Hard to watch,but at 97 mph nobody could have reacted to avoid this in time.Just watching this I would be way out of my comfort zone traveling at that speed on that road.
Just goes to show the roads we feel we know best can be the most dangerous.
Makes you think if David had arrived at the junction just 5 seconds earlier or later we would not be commenting on this.
Ride safe guys.
 
Hard video to watch that ... we all like to ride fast , but theres a time and a place as they say , i always back right off near junctions etc or busy sections of road and save it for quiet sections of road , or track !

Ride like everyone else is a blind ***** and ride safe
 
Everything everyone's saying has veracity to it however the main issue is people are crotch pockets who can't deal with the day to day challenges of driving. How often do we hear "I didn't see him." Translation: I wasn't looking.. F'k the cager. I hope they get to watch their offspring perish,.
 
Very sad. Poor lad, it could have been any one of us. Nothing he could have done at that speed, and it would have been an instant painless death for him ( that don't sound nice).
Its a wake up call to me as I know many times I ride quite quick. Got to think of the family & how they would feel/suffer if it happened to me.
 
I think its funny that they target the biking community rather than the car driver that admitted not seeing the biker.
So even though the car driver was at fault, its the bikers that are to blame?

I suppose its easier to say "slow down" than it is to say " look what you're doing you ***** in a metal box".

And I'm sorry but the "what if?" Brigade should shut up! There are infinite possibilities the would have resulted in a different outcome and one only thing would have had to have been different for it not to happen.
 
Zuki said:
I think its funny that they target the biking community rather than the car driver that admitted not seeing the biker.
So even though the car driver was at fault, its the bikers that are to blame?

I suppose its easier to say "slow down" than it is to say " look what you're doing you ***** in a metal box".

And I'm sorry but the "what if?" Brigade should shut up! There are infinite possibilities the would have resulted in a different outcome and one only thing would have had to have been different for it not to happen.
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Life is full of what if's. We know the myopic ******* in the car was at fault ,you never turn right across the road if there is traffic coming down that road ,but would you put yourself in that situation in the first place ?
I think all drivers are myopic *******s & I ride accordingly hence 97 mph is way out of my comfort zone . The ***** in the metal box won't get as much pain as we will so we should be twice as much more aware of the gits in the first place.
David was unlucky but we should all use this as a wake up call & ride safe ,his life should be remembered & be a lesson to us all.
 
sad for the family and his loss of life, however, if you ride like a **** on built up roads it's only a matter of time. I always ride like everyone is out to kill me and am aware of all around. He thought he was invincible and the only one on the road, was going way too fast for the traffic conditions and paid the price for it.
 
Most of my riding is track time only now, with the odd Pootle out now and again.
My Gixxer mate watched the footage and he said its woke him up and he will ride in a safer manner....so good on the family for releasing the footage, it will make more of us bikers think and there will be a couple more of us here next year than might not of been.
 
gspy4u said:
sad for the family and his loss of life, however, if you ride like a **** on built up roads it's only a matter of time. I always ride like everyone is out to kill me and am aware of all around. He thought he was invincible and the only one on the road, was going way too fast for the traffic conditions and paid the price for it.
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Mucker, I've only read this far down the posts and yer quote is spot on in my opinion.

Very very sad nonetheless.
 
Tragic and my sympathies to the family. I have to say that was more than careless by the car driver and more than reckless by the biker. There's no point shouting "but it was his fault" from your hospital bed or coffin. Ride safe.
 

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