Brake test on motorway.

[tbourner]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2387815/Motorist-slowed-just-10mph-slip-road-motorway-killed-motorcyclist-traveling-fell-braked.html

Sounds like the biker had pissed him off and he fancied doing a brake check.
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[-Matt-]

Read that yesterday, i imagined it more of he'd suddenly realised he'd missed the junction and swerved across at the last minute, either way 10mph is ridiculous coming off a motorway, should of got longer in my opinion.

Some of the typical DM bollucks comments as well 'he should of kept more distance'

[Troy92]

Ridiculous punishment and is some of that driving ban served whilst in prison?
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[-Matt-]

Fairly sure bans start once any sentance finishes, still a joke though

[Rogerborg]

Despite the driver's inability to explain why he did it, or accept any responsibility for his actions, I'd like to think that Dibble would have done enough investigation to rule out a "brake check", i.e. successful attempted murder.

I'd really like to think that.
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[XanderZZR]

What a shocking set of events; it's great to read the ignorance of some of the comments left at the foot of the article.

The sentence is nowhere near long enough and the driving ban should be for life.

It's a shame it wasn't a lorry in the lane he swerved into.

Traffic police should waste less time using tax guns and more time stopping and charging people for dangerous and careless driving, far too many idiots on the road that pay no attention to anyone else.

Sad times.

[Vracktal]

To my mind, what the car driver did is no different than if he'd pulled out of a T-junction right in front of a biker. The people in the DM comments victim blaming and suggesting the biker should have kept more distance (..from a car that until the last second was in an entirely different lane??) clearly haven't read the article.

Car driver deserves jail.
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[Ichy]

[Pol Anorl]

comments..

[-Matt-]

There isn't a well deep enough for some of the commenters

[ScaredyCat]

When you look at the picture it seems like the driver went

"Oh shit that's my junction", stomped on his brakes to slow down so he could get to the slip road.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/188253/_bcf/boom.jpg

Of course the picture may well not be an accurate representation.
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[Ichy]

Good to see they brought the experts in to comment

[Seigi]

The Daily Mail is a tabloid newspaper for the uneducated, it's hardly surprising what some of the comments read.

It amazes me that after hearing a loud bang coming from behind he didn't 1. Check rearview/side mirror to see a motorcycle on it's side lying there and 2. Tried to continue driving instead of investigating.

Granted there's not much reason to keep a man like this in jail (As he is no danger to the general public, except when in a car), he should certainly be banned from driving for 10 years at least.
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[orac]

Makes me wonder if those people commenting though about the cctv that watches most of the motorway traffic. Further to that they are properly the bastards that don't look before they change lanes, or the cyclist that pass on the left at a junction
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[Pol Anorl]

who gives a shit about the bikers speed, if the car didn't slam his brakes on to 10mph on a fucking motorway there would have been no issue.
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[Lyam]

If he had abs there's a good chance he would still be alive, i can kind of see why the EU want to or are makin it compulsary soon?

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[BigDan1190]

Very, very sad. Makes me quite worried to be on a bike tbh!! Some idiot can end your life in seconds because he nearly missed a junction. Very scary stuff.



On a side note., I personally think this would be a good advert for ABS on bikes :/

Hate to say that, but... I imagine it would have done a lot to help.

EDIT: Even though this makes me a bit sick to my stomach, its usually my job to make a joke of everything... So, what the fuck was a biker doing in the slow lane?

[swampy]

[covent.gardens]

He braked because he was about to miss his turn-off, but if he had braked because an animal ran out, or because of some other 'legitimate' event, the result would have been the same. It seems a little harsh to attribute the death squarely to him when it wasn't all his fault.

I'm not sure I'd like it if it became normal practice to question WHY a driver or rider braked when attributing blame for a rear ender. "I hit you because you stopped to let that car out when you should have carried on", and other such arguments do not deserve the time of day.

There could be more to it, as always (e.g. if the car actually changed lanes and braked in front of the bike, then that's a completely different story), but it seems like a tragic accident with blame on both sides... and I'd have to place most of the blame on whoever hit the vehicle in front.

[-Matt-]

[Lyam]

the biker was probably far behind the car until it ha slowed down to 10mph, then he probably realized wtf is that car moving??

your eyes arent used to seeing vehicles not moving in the motorway. i once narrowly missed hitting a car that had stopped in the fast lane i didnt even see it, someone was overtaking me then all of a sudden slammed on the anchors, i looked behind me and could see whoever was in it was trying to start it as the lights were trying to come on. I came off and turned back immediately but by that time a silver honda crx had hit it full on, the ford ka was half its size and the crx was in even worse shape with the guy lying on the road and people around him. this was at 11pm.