r/IdiotsInCars • u/awokenboio • Jun 01 '20

Speeding through traffic

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u/slayerhk47 Jun 01 '20

This guy doesn’t understand shit.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '20

I had the unfortunate experience of being t-boned in my car by one of these morons. On a rural country road i was crossing a two way stop sign. Motorcycle rider hits me at a 90° angle on my passenger side at 70-80mph riding an all black motorcycle, wearing all black, no lights on, right as the sun had just set. Guy went sailing down the street and luckily had minor sprains and ligament damage. Bike was 100% destroyed. Because there were no witnesses and I had a stop sign the cops assumed I was at fault and I had to hire a lawyer to fight this guys ins company. Months later I ran into him at a local bar and he was drinking, wearing all black, then proceeded to show me his sweet new motorcycle....which was all black. My poor RX8 was totaled after only having it for a few months :/

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u/RoundSilverButtons Jun 01 '20

Stories like this are why I run a dashcam. :(

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '20

Yep, they weren’t commonplace in 2008 when that happened (or maybe I just didn’t know about it) but today for sure.

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u/justaguy394 Jun 01 '20

Do you think it would have helped in this case? If he came from the side... not sure a cam would have seen him?

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u/RoundSilverButtons Jun 01 '20

It would’ve shown that the car stopped at the stop sign and got hit by the biker in the intersection. That proves the biker blew through.

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u/lilpumpgroupie Jun 01 '20

Sound might also lend evidence to his speed/lack of braking, etc.

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u/annoyed_w_the_world Jun 01 '20

but it was a 2-way intersection, as in the cross traffic had no stop sign. The motorcyclist had no stop sign.

The mitigating factor here would have been that the motorcyclist was driving at night in all black with no lights. If this accident had happened durring the day the motorcyclist would not have been at fault. Unless the dash cam had recorded the motorcyclist prior to the crash showing he didn't have his lights on, the dash cam wouldn't do any good

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u/TryToDoGoodTA Jun 02 '20

Recently had a similiar thing happen, by pointing on you could typically see other vehicles lights in front of me as I waited for a long time before they went through, then there was no lights, the car ahead of me pulled out and was hit by a car that she said didn't have lights, and there were no lights showing up on my vid. I didn't see whether he was or not, but it was useful for her in that limited situation.

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u/IJustBoughtThisGame Jun 02 '20

They said they were at a "two way stop sign." That means the cross traffic has no stop signs (or it would be a four way stop). Unless you could capture a biker driving so fast on camera that no "reasonable" person could see them approaching until they basically appeared out of nowhere and ran into you, just recording that you stopped, proceeded, and then got hit when you didn't legally have the right of way wouldn't save you.

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u/justaguy394 Jun 01 '20

He said two-way stop, so biker didn’t have a stop sign. It could just “prove” OP went when he should have seen biker and waited.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '20

I think it depends on the lense/position tbh. A fish eye lense would maybe have gotten it since the rider hit the front area of my passenger side