Common Crashes

Yer TC knows a few things it was he who i first phoned when having issues with the crappy insurance company i used last year.

 

The lights may be on but not once does he mention riding with high beams on. The picture was there to illustrate the running lights, as per the caption

TC decided to leave the site (despite me trying to persuade him otherwise) after a couple of members started being quite insulting on one of his posts.

 

that's true of most things written about bikers, between us on here we could write a book with the knowledge we have if it wasn't for the facts

we prefer to be out riding
half of us can't spell
and we would never agree on the best way of doing anything anyway

 

well avoided by the bikers and luckily the person filming this saw it unfolding so gave more space.

 

Take into account the camera seems to be mounted in the centre of the windscreen, so the driver would have a different viewpoint & seen stuff the camera couldn`t. First the oncoming cyclists & then traffic. We don`t know what vehicle the camera was in but judging how high its mounted, I would say its not a vehicle with good acceleration as its WAY above the roof line of the car. It could have even been another tractor travelling with the tractor we see so would have no need to overtake.

The gap left was actually half the size than it should have been if you take the 2 second rule into account. The car driver was TOTALLY at fault, as from what we can tell by the reaction of the guy driving the car with the camera, started his overtake after the SECOND move left arrow. He should have COMPLETED his overtake by the second arrow making the high beam issue a moot point.

 

the camera is in a second tractor and the car was clearly aiming to over take both at once without concern for what might be coming the other way.
It was the fact it's a tractor with it's height advantage that allows him to see the bikes well before the car driver can and react by braking and thus increasing the gap allowing the car to pull back in. The car driver was plain and simply a twat without any ability to read the road and over take cleanly. I would have turned around and been dragging him out of the car for a stern word using my fists to spell it out in morse code on his face

Had that not been a bike with bloody good brakes but instead been a lorry then that would be one dead car driver.

 

It's not arguable at all it's illegal to over take if the vehicle is traveling above a set speed which I think is 10 mph and even then it would be illegal if not done in a safe manner
see rule 129 of the highway code

 

Please elaborate on this as I`m struggling to understand where you are coming from here.

Not crossing a solid white line to overtake a MOVING vehicle is absolute, crossing to overtake a stopped vehicles seems to be depends on the circumstances. I`ll cite the example given to us by the serving officers who took the Bike safe I did last year. A level crossing has its barriers down & you come up behind the stopped traffic. On your side of the road is a solid white line on the approach to the level crossing. Do you filter past the stopped traffic & stop at the barrier? According to them, if they see you do it, you WILL get a ticket even though you can see theres no oncoming traffic due to the barriers.

No FACT about it. The car may well have tried to overtake BOTH vehicles which WOULD have ended in some sort of crash.

 

you know what would have made that video great would have been if the first tractor had slammed his brakes on once the car was up his arse. That looks like a pretty loaded muck spreader, could have filled the car up nicely

 

But if the second vehicle had been doing as you say & been closer, the chances are he would have., negating your statement

As per my previous request, could you elaborate more where driving legally could cause an incident. I would really like to understand where you are coming from on this point.