Here's one for Officer Price

Can't wait for a Friction Zone write-up on this.









http://www.redding.com/news/stories/20040124lo013.shtml

 

They'll try to burry this one.

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muddy

Testing the limits of gravity since 1947.

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Let's just hazard a wild guess that they both failed to signal.

 

They both had the 'I'm a cop, I have the right-of-way, you can **** off'
attitude.

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muddy

Testing the limits of gravity since 1947.

icq - 219328929

 

muddycat handed down these > lines in ba.motorcycles:

Also cute to note how quickly they declared "uniform vehicle code doesn't
apply .. road closed' .. wonder if that would apply to you or I .. naaaahhh

 

I waondered about that too.

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muddy

Testing the limits of gravity since 1947.

icq - 219328929

 

What about the difficulty in finding an officer to conduct the
investigation?

 

They both did "everything possible" to avoid a collision.

Since they weren't anywhere near the posted speed limit,
they clearly weren't traveling at an "unsafe speed".

Clearly, the cause was something "other than operator".

 

Yeah, for the condition of having another vehicle in your path!

Al Moore
DoD 734

 

or look.

 

John:

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I assume something like:
Cage glances then pulls out and starts his turn without looking.
Bike assumes car is going straight by noise only, not looking.
Bike would catch the cars movement in peripheral vision.
The car would have the bikes full attention about now, but
the bike let the car get too close to evade.
The car won't see the bike until after the noise.

A learning experience for the bike, do not to trust cars.
The car is lucky he didn't drive over a pedestrian.
Judging both too attention deficite for signalling to help.
(but that is just an opinion)

 

How does a signal for pulling onto the road differ from a signal for a
U-turn? [1]

Signals would not have mattered since they probably both already knew
the other was pulling onto the road. They just didn't realize the other
was going to pull the same move they themselves were doing.

-mark

[1] Once when bicycling, I T-boned a car pulling a U-turn out of a
parking spot in GGPark. The driver tried to claim, "But I signaled." I
would've made it around the car if it hadn't tried to U-turn- not that
it should have been pulling out when I was passing anyway... Again, live
and learn.