Road Rage in the Southland

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Rider kicks at passenger vehicle:



They were in a dedicated commute lane. Why the rider was on the drivers side of the passenger vehicle isn't clear. CHP is looking for the rider.
 
I love the annoyed tone with which someone in the car filming this says "Call 911". Like, they know they have to do it because it's the right thing to do, but they're pissed off at having been imposed upon like this because of the stupidity of others.

Completely understandable.
 
Bit of video missing before the kick, seems as if the car cut the bike off earlier but that wasn't shown. Kick was a bit silly, but to me it looks as if the car swerved on purpose, which is even dumber, especially if you're a crap driver.
 
3point14 said:
That escalated quickly!
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Insane act on the part of the rider. I don't give a **** what someone does in a passenger vehicle short of hitting me.

A rider should never put themselves at risk from a distracted or nutty PV driver. All the YT vids showing riders confronting PV drivers is nothing other than stupid rider ego ********.

If you're on a bike, anyone in a car can end you like swatting a fly, and it came real close to happening in this example.
 
fagin said:
Bit of video missing before the kick, seems as if the car cut the bike off earlier but that wasn't shown. Kick was a bit silly, but to me it looks as if the car swerved on purpose, which is even dumber, especially if you're a crap driver.
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Absent that piece of video we won't know.

If the rider had stopped at the scene he may have been able to accurately describe the incident from his POV. Riding between the K rail and the PV was complete idiocy if the guy had already endangered the rider.
 
Ziggurat said:
I love the annoyed tone with which someone in the car filming this says "Call 911". Like, they know they have to do it because it's the right thing to do, but they're pissed off at having been imposed upon like this because of the stupidity of others.

Completely understandable.
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I get the sense that he was just acknowledging that the inevitable had just happened.

Like Falons fans when the Super Bowl went into overtime.

:)
 
fagin said:
Bit of video missing before the kick, seems as if the car cut the bike off earlier but that wasn't shown. Kick was a bit silly, but to me it looks as if the car swerved on purpose, which is even dumber, especially if you're a crap driver.
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The kick wasn't just silly, it was monumentally stupid. That rider is lucky he didn't get turned into sausage against that divider.

But yeah, the driver of the car is even dumber. Lucky for him, his incompetence managed to save him from what could have been a murder charge.
 
3point14 said:
That escalated quickly!
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BStrong said:
Insane act on the part of the rider. I don't give a **** what someone does in a passenger vehicle short of hitting me.

A rider should never put themselves at risk from a distracted or nutty PV driver. All the YT vids showing riders confronting PV drivers is nothing other than stupid rider ego ********.

If you're on a bike, anyone in a car can end you like swatting a fly, and it came real close to happening in this example.
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Ego can kill you quick.

Also, not to judge too much by appearances, more a commuter than a rider, if you see what I mean.
 
3point14 said:
Ego can kill you quick.

Also, not to judge too much by appearances, more a commuter than a rider, if you see what I mean.
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Big Twin riders are a bit different from guys on sportbikes or touring bikes.

The joke has always been:

" Know why Harley riders don't wave?"

"They're afraid to take their hand off the bars."

The other one was "Harley-Davidson" the bike for people who are afraid to ride a motorcycle.
 
It looked more like a big scooter to me. Difficult to tell, I am on a tiny screen. I'll defer to your superior bike-spotting skills :)
 
3point14 said:
It looked more like a big scooter to me. Difficult to tell, I am on a tiny screen. I'll defer to your superior bike-spotting skills :)
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Tail lights and saddle bag shape. Could be another big-twin type bike, including Japanese types, but it looks pretty H-D to me.
 
Don't you have to stop if you've been involved in an accident in the USA?
 
Elagabalus said:
Harley riders. Giving motorcyclists a bad name since ...
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My guys (sportriders) have been doing a pretty good job of it for many years now - no RICO/Continuing Criminal Enterprise charges but lots of bad behavior on the road. In some localities, a guy on a H-D might get the wave from a cop and the guy on a sportbike will be followed out of town, lest he pull a wheelie and put the future of the human race at risk.
 
TX50 said:
Don't you have to stop if you've been involved in an accident in the USA?
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Absolutely.

Hit and run is an epidemic in California in general and even worse in the Bay Area:

https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/hit-and-run-epidemic-plagues-oakland/Content?oid=4301760

"State data also shows that in recent years, 14 to 16 percent of traffic collisions in Oakland in which victims were injured or killed were hit-and-run cases. That means roughly one out of every six motorists who injure or kill a victim flees the scene of the crime. And nearly all of them get away with it."

The state no longer demonstrates much interest in prosecuting individuals in non-fatal hit and run accidents, and zero interest in prosecuting drivers that hit and run in property damage cases.

The sop is the victim of a property damage incident is told it's a civil case and to turn it into their insurance carrier.

If there is physical injury involved and the driver is stopped soon after the incident with supporting evidence, they may be prosecuted.

Anything else is pretty much a lost cause in a major metro area. Suburban and rural agencies will usually, but not always, try a little harder to get the HnR driver in front of the court.
 
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BStrong said:
My guys (sportriders) have been doing a pretty good job of it for many years now - no RICO/Continuing Criminal Enterprise charges but lots of bad behavior on the road. In some localities, a guy on a H-D might get the wave from a cop and the guy on a sportbike will be followed out of town, lest he pull a wheelie and put the future of the human race at risk.
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Sportbikes are the ones that cause the vast majority of shenanigans that I see myself. I've had on more than one occasion some moron pass me on the right.

While I was in the right lane.

At a red light.

I may just have to pull into a driveway next time.
 
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