Saw a crash today :(

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Coming down the A48 dual carriageway, which has T-junctions rather than slips for a lot of the junctions down here in sunny West Wales.

I was turning in, there was a big gap behind me in lane one. Chap on a Varadero 125 pulls out from the junction where he'd been waiting. I thought he was going to join lane 1, would have been a good time to do it, but instead he ambled across both lanes aiming for the central refuge that lets you take the next right turn. It was not a good time to do that, at least, not that slowly...

I think it was a Merc that hit him, I saw him flying through the air, first time I think my 17 year old daughter has ever heard me swear out loud and really mean it... Pull over on the link road and stop, run to biker (making sure I cross safely!! Enough thought not to add to the injured!) who is lying on the central reservation.

He was one lucky boy. The guy who had already stopped and was with him was an off-duty fireman; I was next and I've had bike-specific first aid training; then maybe a minute later an ambulance pulled up. And that wasn't all the luck - despite having been unconscious for a brief time and incoherent for a few minutes after that, he seems to have had basically no damage - took his own helmet off and had to be stopped from getting up. Some serious shock and very dazed though. Impact had literally taken his boots off. He managed to miss all the road furniture and the armco. I rang it in on 999 as the car driver didn't seem to be able to work his phone.

The driver was in shock, once the ambulance men took over the rider I went to see him. He asked if the rider was OK, said he didn't give a shit about his car - which was properly bashed in at the front - a big tear in the bonnet, airbags gone off, must have gone OVER the bike as the rear bumper had been pulled off too. Said he wasn't speeding, as he had just been overtaken by a police car and so was very aware of his speed, which was right as I'd just seen the police car too. To be fair, he didn't really have a chance, the rider just didn't open the throttle at all (I started on a 'dero.... they struggle over 50, but they get there pretty smartly).

Later I had an update and gave a statement from/to the traffic policeman who attended - rider taken to hospital and being given a full scan but no problems found so far.

Driver: hope you're ok, shaken but not stirred. Really not your fault and thumbs up for the "don't give a shit about my car".

Rider: hope you're OK too. If you're on here: I didn't want to tell at the time when you asked, but there's a bit more than scratches on the fairing, mate. In fact, your bike is properly fucked.
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[M.C]

Poor obs.

[FretGrinder]

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[stinkwheel]

Good for you for stopping and getting involved.

Even without first aid training, anyone can be helpful, even if it's just dialling 999 then standing up the road to slow traffic down.
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[Beehive Bedlam]

Have you got ptsd whatever it's called now?

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[Pete.]

Well done for stopping and getting stuck in. You probably did a lot to help both even if you didn't realise it.
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Nobby the Bastard]

I saw a pigeon get hit by a car today. When I came back 15 minutes later it was properly pancaked into the road surface.
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[colink98]

T Junctions on dual carriage ways which allow people to cross the path of vehicles (who going at 70 mph) are a mare.

The A249 down our way is a death trap.
people are always pulling onto the carriage way with far too little room to get up to speed before they get twatted.
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Ride it like you stole it.
ride sensible and not like an idiot and you wont get 6 points in one week.

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[Tankie]

[Polarbear]

They are starting to block off the roads through the central reservations on dual carriageways in MK because of the amount of idiots that get T Boned at them.

You have to go up to the next roundabout and back now, no great shakes, just a bit annoying you have to do it because idiots like the biker above have no idea how to use them safely.
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[Kentol750]

There's been quite a few accidents on the a48 between Pont Abraham services and St Clears. The cwmgwili and bancyfelin junctions being especially dangerous. Unfortunately, there's a lot of farm land that was cut in 2 by the 'new road' and access had to be made available to the farmers. Now, a lot more cars mean less time and more risk getting across.
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Some bikes.

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[Old Git Racing]

Glad you stopped and got involved. Glad no one is dead and just sometimes every now and then, and once in a blue moon it just might be sometimes the bikers fault and he gets away with it, learns, and lives to ride another day.

OGR.
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[Jim Mc]

If the driver was very aware of his speed and presumably his surroundings having just been passed by the Police. What caused him to drive straight into a motorcyclist? Looking at his phone perhaps?

Google quotes stopping distance at 70mph as being 100 yards. Must have still been going a fair lick to send the guy flying.

A relative of mine was crashed into recently while stationary at a junction at the bottom of a slip road leaving the A1.

The driver of the vehicle who hit my relative claimed brake failure. Apparently the Police were able to obtain the vehicle data which showed that the driver had not commanded the brake pedal and successfully prosecuted the driver.

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[Wonko The Sane]

[Polarbear]

^^^Do all modern cars do that?^^^
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[M.C]

Gotta love how in the capital they stop you making left turns, yet out in the sticks you can pull across a NSL dual-carriageway anyway you please.

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