Just a thought.....

[shereen]

Just randomly thinking - as you do and I thought what would happen if you was cornering round a sharp bend that you cannot see round, and there was a car broken down on the exit. Whos fault would it be if you crashed? If you had no time to stop or if there were vehicle travelling in the other direction making it impossible to use the other side of the road to avoid the obstacle.
____________________
"The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had"

[The Shaggy D.A.]

If you can't stop in the distance you can see, you're going too fast. Hit something, it's your fault.
____________________
Chances are quite high you are not in my Monkeysphere, and I don't care about you. Don't take it personally.
Currently : Royal Enfield 350 Meteor
Previously : CB100N > CB250RS > XJ900F > GT550 > GPZ750R/1000RX > AJS M16 > R100RT > Bullet 500 > CB500 > LS650P > Bullet Electra X & YBR125 > Bullet 350 "Superstar" & YBR125 Custom > Royal Enfield Classic 500 Despatch Limited Edition (28 of 200) & CB Two-Fifty Nighthawk > ER5

[Joe f]

It'd be your fault, you should always be going slow enough round a blind bend to stop in time for an obstruction. In fact for that matter you should be going slow enough anywhere to be able to stop in time if such an incident did arise.

Although no-one ever does, or ever will, you've just gotta hope it doesn't happen!


EDIT: beaten.

[Teflon-Mike]

And you wondered why they were reluctant to give you insurance on an R1......
____________________
My Webby'Tef's-tQ, loads of stuff about my bikes, my Land-Rovers, and the stuff I do with them!
Current Bikes:'Honda VF1000F' ;'CB750F2N' ;'CB125TD ( 6 3 of em!)'; 'Montesa Cota 248'. Learner FAQ's:= 'U want to Ride a Motorbike! Where Do U start?'

[G]

There was a case of two riders who both were on here I think?

One crashed and the other piled in to him; the latter was trying to claim off the one who initially lost it.
Pretty sure that failed and in fact the first rider down may have managed to get some money out of the latter rider's insurance for further damage caused to his bike.

(Details are a bit fuzzy, so may have got it mixed up.)

[Clive L]

Doesn't matter whose fault if you are dead.

As everyone here already said, ride at a speed you can stop in the bit you already see, in your own lane

[Pol Anorl]

This happened to smiler, came round a bend to a broken down car and ended up binning it, im pretty sure he tried to claim off the insurance of the council for putting a bend there.
____________________
GOOD GAME BODYGUARD: https://i.imgur.com/8WePGgf.jpg
20:30:37 Pyro.: I don't sort of like men, I take every advantage to choke on dick.
Jewlio Iglesias: You live in Liverpool - Chances are, the front door has already been kicked off the hinges

[yambabe]

[yambabe]

It was ram_doom and Sephiroth if anyone wants to be bothered searching back......
____________________
Sod falling in love, I wanna fall in chocolate.

[Wonko The Sane]

[Snorty]

[Derivative]

[Dave_R]

[Easter Bunny]

There's some pretty dodgy bends out in Bedfordshire and met some right twats in cars on my side of the road before always wary of blind bends
____________________
The light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train!

[Kradmelder]

I differ. If you are broken down on the road you are supposed to put out a warning triangle. Even someone travelling at well within the speed limit can detect an obstructed object. Especially in fog, night, blind rise, sharp obstructed bend etc

Negligence is on the driver who didn't give ample warning of an obstruction.

The closest I came to rear ending someone was in the supermarket. I was walking down an aisle and got distracted and walked straight into the back of a huge fat woman. I'm not a small ou and a solid 95 kg (15 or 16 stone you poms would say?) former rugby prop but it was like hitting an immovable object. Outweighed me by far, with diameter makinbg up for lack of height. Brought me to dead stop and bonce back as if I had hit an All Black scrum.. I apologised but she didn't seem upset and smiled. Guess it wake a hit by a Casspir to dislodge that woman.

She could have accused me of negligence but then I could have said you didn't have one of those cautions Abnormal Load sign and no red flags and she was at anchor, standing still in the aisle, with a large cargo of supplies of chips, cool drink, choclate, biscuits, cakes etc, not wallowing along like a laden galleon under full sail
____________________
2011 KTM 990 Dakar
2009 BMW 1200 GS

[MarJay]

[CaNsA]

Dammit marjay......

I was gonna post a facepalm!

[Hetzer]

[Suntan Sid]

Slightly OT, but:-

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

[Hetzer]

[Shinigami]

stopping distance is something that annoys me somewhat, every morning on the dual carriageway to work I am ALWAYS the only vehicle giving adequate distance to the car in front, everyone else drives at 70 and stay about 6 feet from each others bumpers
____________________
Current: Honda City Fly CLR125 2003 Honda CB600F Hornet 2008 Yamaha FZ6 S2 + 1991 Kawasaki GPZ500
"Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.

[Rogerborg]

[Suntan Sid]

[shereen]