my first accident + shoody paint diagram

[joncwl]

so my first accident not a major one but enough to warrant some twat taxi driver to take my details anyway.

so came up to a bridge near where i live and went over it as a normally do, and theres a small blind spot where you cant see where the cars have stopped, so over this bridge i go and low and behold theres a group of cars stopped, i try to emergency break......to hard on the abck wheel and it slides around so i think to myself fk it, straighten the bike back up and try to avoid the car, i avoided most of the car but my knee managed to collide with the taxi cab and break its rear mirror....

after 3 years ive had no accidents involving other road users and im pretty shot down by just this event all of a sudden, my step dad whom has rode bikes his life and his dad before him have both said ive done bloody good to last that long without an accident even one as small as this.

and cause i know you all like your shoddy paint diagrams heres one, the x marks where i collided etc

https://i.imgur.com/uwvjtY0.jpg
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last bike, 1990 yamaha tzr125 (2rk model) - still after a fairing kit for it !!!!!

[CaNsA]

Here ya go sweetheart >> https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=298593

[DrSnoosnoo]

Be glad you didn't crash sooner being on the wrong side of the bridge as you go over it.

I wonder if the fella has got whiplash from you breaking his mirror?
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[bladeblaster]

shit happens.

Just pay for the mirror and forget about it.

[CyrilSwan]

I would have thought that if there was a known blind spot then you should be going slow enough not to need to emergency brake?
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[lihp]

You were going too fast for the road and the conditions. So there is something to learn from the accident.

Although, his "rear" mirror?
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[joncwl]

[GPC]

Glad your not hurt.

I would find out how much quickly as with a taxi he will be looking at loss of earnings - he cannot drive a taxi with a broken light.

[mattyfattyboo...]

[Rogerborg]

[covent.gardens]

So how about if you were stopped and a taxi came flying over the bridge, hit you up the arse and broke your tail light?

[el_oso]

[WD Forte]

Tut tut
'Going to fast for conditions' I'm afraid
I wondered if it was a hump backed bridge and the view ahead unsighted until you hit the peak,
but this view from roughly the beginning of your line
shows its as flat as a billiard table
Live and learn eh?
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.708782,-2.72456,3a,75y,52.45h,69.35t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sYE051yJX2pujoFYTzj8orA!2e0?hl=en
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[joncwl]

[Alpha-9]

You know what you did wrong, no need to tell you.
Only go as fast as you can see and stop in.

Assume there's ALWAYS cars over blind hills and corners.
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[Kaya75]

It's the common routes init, I took a lady's mirror clean off her ford focus, filtering far too fast through two lanes of stopped traffic at a set of lights, I hit it with my mirror stalk, it cracked right off and landed right in her sons lap! (It was summer) i thought oohhhhh shi@t, she literally laughed and said "ohh not again, it happens all the time!" I'm not kidding she was so nice she even apologised for not finding one on eBay, apparently it was the ninth time! Cost me 106 quid and a bottle of wine, it could have being so much more of a head ache, the 100 quid was a very very cheap lesson, I'd chase him and try to get it sorted asap, loss of earning and all that shite..

Goodluck mate, hope it works out fast, cheap and smooth for you

I'll say something though that looks like a death trap junction, maybe you need to ease up, theres all sorts of shifty possiabilities that could happen exiting that bridge section, those left and right broken junctions just looks scary at speed, nice section without those though.