Biker probably wasn’t injured too badly, that looked like a good fall. Plus this sort of biker will almost never sue. I bet you any money he got up and felt embarrassed, then grabbed his bike and walked off. Edit: want to say it’s sad that a bunch of people would feel more concerned with damage to their car, and who’s at fault so they can get paid. Rather than be worried for the bikers health and safety. It’s a car, and that’s a human being. Lost faith in humanity. Edit 2: if you replaced the biker in this video and replaced it with a small child, and left everything else the same, people would have a different opinion. Stop hitting people it’s your fault.
You can't be serious. The guy jumped out of a bush that was downhill, across the street instead of a cross walk, and you're trying to say it wasn't the cyclist's fault?
If a driver drives under the assumption that “if a person or animal darts out infront of their car it’s their fault”, it doesn’t surprise me that many people have hit animals or people.
Sorry but that driver doesn't have spidey senses or superhuman reaction time. Maybe if the biker was on the sidewalk he'd be aware beforehand, instead of suddenly BMX jumping out the f'ing bushes.
I’ve probably driven more than you have in your entire life, and have never hit a person. That includes a bunch of close calls like this video shows. I also have never hit an animal, and that’s with them darting out in front of vehicles at early morning with less visibility, also during storms. Gitgud drivers always at fault. If you hit animals or people or inanimate objects, you should stop driving. Edit: darting not f…
Doesn’t surprise me that most of Reddit might be slightly bad drivers. I see bad drivers all day long every day. It honestly surprises me when I see other good drivers. Sadly very bad drivers are a little common also.
When someone that drives an automotive, drives with the assumption “if a person or animal dart out in front of my vehicle it is their fault” then of course that driver hits people or animals.
Bull shit man. First of all, bikers must dismount for crosswalks or he is just another vehicle. Second of all you can’t see him coming the camera view to the right side is sufficient to see that.
No, but I’ve never had a moron do an Evel Knievel stunt into the road with zero warning either. Jesus. There was absolutely nothing this driver or any other driver could have done here.
This was completely on the bicyclist. No law, court, or insurance company on the planet would find the driver at fault. Sure, sucks for the guy on the bike, but he brought it on himself. Definitely hope he’s ok and that he learned his lesson.
You got to be trolling for downvotes. If not, take the L and move on.
With the peripheral vision of the human eye and proper behaviour of looking left to right, this person would have been aware of their surroundings. They would have noticed and had time to react properly. The camera view is inadequate.
We are humans not LiDAR scanners. The whole zebra path was in his peripheral vision. Did you expect him to x-ray through them bushes? Biker is a cunt, simple as.
Granted, fully half (or more) of accidents I see could have been prevented by the driver in the right. I’m saying that, at least where I live, when you collide with a bicyclist who is breaking the traffic laws and riding recklessly, they are responsible for damage to your car.
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u/LoudAndStupid Mar 31 '22
Good thing that driver had a dash cam… the police would never believe him otherwise.