THERE ARE PLENTY OF TIMES WHEN THE ONLY FAULT OF THE BIKE RIDERS IS JUST BEING ON THE ROAD AT ALL !
I had one sort of similar back in 2010. Big difference was it was late Saturday morning, traffic along Albany Hwy coming out of Perth city was bumper to bumper, and almost zero traffic heading towards the city.
There was some on-going road works outside the Bentley Plaza. I was cruising along towards the city minding my own business heading into Perth to pick up my passport and visa.
THINK, I down shifted to slow to the posted speed limit of 20 kph. Was just level with a large, black 4 wheel drive thing (Toyota Landcruiser ?) - without any warning a small white four door cage turned and shot out from behind the four wheel drive cutting straight across the highway in front of me, stopping, blocking both lanes towards the city.
Instinctively I started trying to swing to the left trying desperately to brake and miss the front of the cage. Brakes grabbed the front wheel, locking it, (told there was some loose sand on the road) handlebars swung full lock to the left and the bike was down throwing me up and over onto the road.
My first 'High-Side' !
Don't remember very much at all after that - two uniformed police
carried me over to the side of the highway.
Next thing I remember was being in an ambulance and heard someone saying "But you've got to feel sorry for the poor girl."
W.T.F. ????
Then I was straight off to hospital for a few weeks.
End result - Lots of broken plastic of my ST1100, one brand new BMW flip-up helmet written off. (right hand side / top scrapped and crushed)
Self - - concussion, memory loss, four broken ribs, bit of bruising all over.
Unbelievably, not one single witness came forwards !!!
Lots of people heard the crash of my ST and I hitting the black-top but no-one SAW what happened !
No witnesses = no charges laid. I didn't remember what had happened, (concussion) so that was it.
Driver was a young BLOND female
with her father in the front passengers seat !
Must be true what they say about blonds !
Can't even see a police white, ST1100 with its headlights on, no other traffic around it, on a cloudless, sunny day.
That was enough to convince me that the average cage driver has a mind block when it comes to 'seeing' motorbikes on the road !
