Talk about a close call!!!
 

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Wow

Splitting lanes would have been better!

WOW that was too close, did the car being hit roll forward and hit one of the bikers ahead? Whew!

Wow, don't buy a lottery ticket, you just used your allotment of luck for the year.

Looked to me like the car that got hit just missed the other bike(s).

Yeah, by inches! Glad one funeral didn't lead to another.

However many lives both people on those bikes have, they just used up one. He was leaviing plenty of room between him & the car in front as should be. This also shows the prudence of doing whatever you can to reduce the chances of becoming a statistic. If he hadn't pulled well to the right out of the main stream of traffic, he'd have been a gonner.

What did I miss? Why were those bikes stopped and then why did the car that got rear ended stop in the road with nothing in front of him?

wild guess...


two lead bikes pull over to wait for slowpoke with the camera. car sees them stop and stops too in confusion. 5 seconds later pickup slams into the rear.

Yikes. Crazy stuff.

Looks like NC... getting on up towards the Smokies.

Was the truck driver texting?

I was thinking the same thing - or East TN (there appears to be a Power T on the rear window of the pickup truck)...

Exactly!

Analytically speaking......the driver who was rear ended had no business stopping in the middle of the road.

I didn't say the accident was his fault. The guy in the truck was at fault.

But what the hell was that car doing stopped in the road?

I'll answer.....he was AFRAID to drive past the 2 cyclists who had stopped to the right - who were probably waiting for their buddy (the one filming) to catch up.

It all boils down to TRAFFIC FLOW....."Keep them doggies movin'....Rawhiiiiide!"

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What about the pick-up coming the other way that forced the car ahead onto the shoulder?
What was up with that?
And why did the SUV coming the other way pull onto the shoulder?
When the camera pans back the road is clear. why did everyone stop?
I don't get it.

It was a funeral procession (oncoming traffic). Pretty common for people in rural areas to pull over and stop until the procession goes by.

(audio has someone yelling about a funeral procession - so this is my SWAG).

angela

well at least it wasn't a Turbopalooza gathering !!!

To me it looks like the two bikes at front prob. pulled over because of the near miss a minute earlier. It spooked the guy in Nissan who didnt know what they were doing and was prob. also spooked from the earlier near miss. Hopefully nobody was hurt too badly.:eek:

I put 50% of the blame on the clown in the blue Nissan who stopped for no reason. Funeral procession or not. He/she could have created another funeral. Guarantee there's serious whiplash, if not rebound injury in that car.

That hurts to watch. :(

I was stopped behind a pick up that was waiting to make a left turn, about 5 seconds later a short screech of tires, and crash of metal, and another pick up truck did this to my poor car. :(

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Its amazing how some people never see brake lights or slow down for stopped traffic. :(

When pickups with bright lights follow right behind me on country roads at night, I will slowly come to a stop in passing zone and wave them past. I often get asked "you wanna fight?". No, I just don't want you behind me, I can see the whole shadow of my car out lined in your lights. They don't get it. They also, judging from how I have to come almost completely off the brake to get to a full stop without being hit, would slam right into me in an emergency.

Three yrs. ago there was a horrendous fatal read end collision right by my house where a dumptruck didn't even slow down for a red light and ran over four motorcyclists waiting at the stop line. They were pinned and burned to death. I still get the chills riding through that intersection.

I'm gonna go with this 'respect' theme and say the blue car's driver needed to have respect for the living and not stop in the middle of a road.

Most places I've lived, all the vehicles in a funeral procession turn their headlights on.

Regardless of why everyone else was stopped, the driver of the pickup truck demonstrated clear vehicular negligence. Traffic was stopped--for awhile--and the p/u came barreling into everyone. Unless he's got a really, really good reason, the p/u driver should lose his license for a long, long time, if not for life. Or that's the way it would work out were I king for a day.

It might actually be illegal to stop for a funeral procession where that happened. However, given the ability of many of those cars to keep in their lane...I might think about stopping/slowing myself...

However you look at it, the truck should not of hauled into the stopped car. Without this, there would of been no wreck. The truck should of been paying enough attention to slow down. Its not like the car and bike came to a stop suddenly, there was a gradual slow decel when coming upon the procession, followed by a second gradual and slow decel following the GMC running the Nissan off the road.

Had I been behind that, I'd of noticed and slowed up meself...

I can't really fault the Nissan for slowing up to "nervously" pass the bikers. When I pass pedal bikes on skinny roads I don't blow them off the road at 55MPH when the opposite lane is clogged....I slow up until I have a safer chance.

Driving can be dangerous, and sometimes you just need to take a chill pill when some one slows up and stops. Doesn't matter whether they are right or wrong.

If you assign 50% to the Nissan, that means you have to assign less than 50% to the black pick up? The GMC caused the original slow down... Majority would pretty clearly go to the pick up. The car had been at a reduced rate of speed for a long period of time, the truck should of been slowing down.

Good observation. I don't think the car that stopped knew what was going on but I see people on my residential street every single day that don't know how wide their car is. When it would be easy for 2 cars to pass in opposite directions with cars parked on either side, they panic and stop.

The driver that stopped was a dumb F for sure, but the person in the truck will have to be cited for reckless driving along with the fault of the 'accident.' I wish there was serious jail time for this kind of thing.

I am glad to see that there was this video because there will be no doubt in anyone's mind how out-of-control and how fast that truck was going. If I was a judge, I'd take the truck driver's license for 10 years. And that's the way it should be.

Good reason not to be on a motorcycle right there.

The roads are full of idiots.

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Amen!!!...and we just witnessed a few.

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Originally Posted by Tervuren View Post
When pickups with bright lights follow right behind me on country roads at night, I will slowly come to a stop in passing zone and wave them past. I often get asked "you wanna fight?"
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Tailgating, favorite road fun here in the Phoenix Valley.

Those motorcyclists weren't too smart either. I would never stop on a shoulder that narrow without a really good reason. When I'm at a stop light, until I have someone stopped behind me, my eyes don't leave my mirrors.

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And counter to what I've done all my life, I'm trying to make it a habit to always remain in gear w/clutch pulled in.
To hell with saving a thrust bearing.

That's a good practice for sure, but in the situation in the video: There's no -real- way for the motorcyclist to act safely except to maybe give himself an out off the shoulder. You never know, if he had been SUPER vigilant and hightailed it down the right the pickup driver could very well have reflexed off to the right as well and totally run the cyclist over that way.

The cyclist was very lucky no doubt about it.

I got rear-ended about that hard a few years ago and there was a motorcyclist between us. The motorcyclist was shaken up but not hurt. I think the impact popped him up in the air or off to the side so he wasn't squished.

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I get it...kinda like squeezing a grape, eh?

Just saw a news item this morning that said that you are 30 times more likely to die in a motorcycle accident than one in a car. I know the are other factors such as being more able to avoid the accident on a bike , etc. but that is eye opening.

More like a watermelon seed. Grapes squish.

Probably because there are not too many "minor" accidents on a moto.

If you are going to stop for a funeral precession out of respect, you really should pull over onto the shoulder. You can't simply stop in the middle of a road because of a funeral or because you're confused about why a couple of bikes are pulled over.

The Nissan driver did a very bone-head move, and paid for it.

My $0.42,
-Z-man.

Huh. My mom used to live about two miles from the spot of the accident.