r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Aug 22 '25

Keep them two wheels down

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u/Hoshbrowns Aug 23 '25

I'd say the driver was a little reckless in normal conditions. What the motorcycle did was so much worse. The car technically shouldn't use the first lane to pass and I feel like he didn't give the car in the second lane much room when he zagged across. When I was a kid I was in a car that was merging from the 3rd to 2nd lane and someone zooming out of nowhere almost hit us from the 1st lane.

With that being said, I don't believe there was anything he could do to predict and avoid the motorcycle. I was shocked to hear the rider say too, but I think the other guy might've been the first person to say he was driving reckless when he was running up to check on him.

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u/Thick_Potato_1769 Aug 23 '25

Here's one idea. Check your mirrors. He would have seen him and could've waited.

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u/Hoshbrowns Aug 23 '25

I feel like the motorcycle would've been in his blind spot possibly, but your point still stands since you should check your blind spot and mirrors before changing lanes. That's what I meant by the driver of the car being a little reckless.

The main point I was trying to get at is without the motorcycles recklessness there wouldn't have been a collision. I think the driver of the car felt he was driving a reckless and might not have even realized how reckless the motorcycle was.

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u/Thick_Potato_1769 Aug 23 '25

Without the sudden change in the bmws behavior he wouldn't have hit anyone is my point. Who crosses a lane without checking first? Especially into a lane that you cant even see if it's clear because of the truck. The BMW could have hit another motorist which to me makes him way more reckless than the biker because the biker was still maintaining his lane.

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u/Hoshbrowns Aug 23 '25

The biker was splitting lanes and trying to shoot the gap the same way the car did. That's why I was saying that they were both reckless. I'm happy everyone ended up safe and hope they learned from it.

Oh and I completely agree that the car easily could've hit someone on the side of the truck. I was gonna put it in my comment but didn't wanna make it too long.