I hit a biker :/
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- sigg
I'm behind the white line at a stop sign making a right hand turn.
Oncoming traffic is 3 lanes of craziness.
I check right on the sidewalk once... all clear.
A few seconds go by while I'm looking left and I see my opening.
I check right again and I see someone 3/4 of a block away on the sidewalk.
I start creeping up to start the turn right, still looking left to make sure no one changes lanes and broadsides me. I hit the gas to go and BANG... hit a biker and knocked him off of his bike.
I was moving to make the turn and hit him. My fault or his?
He was a twenty something techie looking semi-hipster guy from Asia who was so apologetic for hitting me. He knew it was his fault. He fucked up the front of my car and the funny thing is, if I hadn't hit him the car turning into the street I was on would have plowed him over. I have no fucking clue what he was thinking. 1, he went in front of me while I was creeping into a turn and 2, another car was turning in and he somehow thought he could beat him across the street.
He wasn't injured but my car was. He didn't want to file a report and the cop said if I did want to file one for insurance purposes he'd have to write me the ticket. WTF. Fucking asshole no helmet wearing bikers.
- JSK0
Its your fault.
- aanderton0
- shouldnt the bike rider in this scene be on the other lane? technically he is going the wrong way in that lane.inhaler97
- yeh wrong lane surely.Hombre_Lobo
- or biker is correct in UK and guy in car is drunk74LEO
- lol LEOaanderton
- detritus0
I wonder how controversial this thread will get?
- Projectile0
What side of the road do you drive on? Your description is a little confusing to say the least
- Fax_Benson0
Thread title is 'I hit a biker' rather than 'a biker rode into me' - just saying. Good that nobody was hurt.
- An Asian Biker. Important detail that apparently.Ianbolton
- JSK0
Isn't sigg polish or something?
- CyBrainX0
That image is wrong because the biker was in the same lane as the driver. The biker was at fault because he was on your right. That's what messes up bikers all the time. It takes a while to get used to, but you have to pass on the left. I ride in Manhattan every day and I made all the mistakes in the beginning because you get a little nervous and tend to stick to the right.
- inhaler970
Not sure if this helps, but it sounds like the situation. This came from California's DMV on bike riding.
Must make left and right turns in the same way that drivers do, using the same turn lanes. If the bicyclist is traveling straight ahead, he or she should use a through traffic lane rather than ride next to the curb and block traffic making right turns.
Source: http://dmv.ca.gov/pubs/hdbk/shr_…
My guess is the blame most always falls on the driver of the car, which is BS, Bike Drivers should ride as defensively as cars, so if your signal was on and he crept on your right, heading through the intersection, he's an idiot.
- maikel0
So, you hit a biker... and you liked it.
(music to follow)
- JSK0
Those Asians should only be driven around by a chauffeur.
- Hombre_Lobo0
was the biker in the same lane as you? on your right side as you were turning right?
In the UK bikers are taught if they are going straight on never to be on the inside of a lane in which traffic can turn, even i turning they shouldn't be right next to a vehicle.
- See. Bikers are taught in UK.inhaler97
- Here in Aus, cars are supposed to give way when turning, even if the bike is on the inside. Supposed to though, not do.Nathan_Adams
- popfodders0
Sucks dude.
- GeorgesII0
came here hoping to read a story about you getting in a fight with some hell's angels,
...
- calculator0
he was on the 'sidewalk'?
- 23kon0
So what did you do then Sigg?
Did you get the cop to write you a ticket so you'd be able to claim on your insurance for the accident?I hope you did!
If not, you're just as daft as the to-blame biker.
- CALLES0
should have taken his ipad and parliament ciggies as down payment
- jtb260
Judging by your description of the biker, he was clearly at fault. Semi-hipster, asian, techi-looking.
Psh, guys lucky the cop didn't throw him in the slammer.