use ya mirrors

http://www.perthstreetbikes.com/for...p://share.youthwant.com.tw/sh.php?id=23003335

 

Fark me!!!

I don't need to see that again.

Dale.

 

OMG. Yikes. Wow. I don't even know what to say to that. I should have
stopped watching about half way through.

 

Yuk. That's horrible. Not the sort of thing you'd want to see on your
daily commute (or anywhere else, really).

betty

 

Wouldn't have made any difference after the front wheels went right over the
rider
but it appears that the truck driver would have been at fault, even though
the bike rider should have been in the other lane to turn

 

Okay. I'm just not getting it... Maybe I'm paying too much attention
to the "end" of the deal... What went wrong here? It looks like the
truck just overran the guy on the scooter. Am I missing something?

 

I suspect the truck driver was up so high and looking ahead at HIS (or
maybe HER) eye level, and didn't even SEE the rider 'way down there'
and so close in front crossing his path (or at least, that's what I
would expect him to say... just another SMIDSY....) Yuk...

betty

 

Good one corks. If you're going to post this stuff at least put some
sort of spoiler in the subject ya fucking goose. Not everyone wants to
see that shit.

Nev..
'07 XB12X

 

*phew* it wasn't the riders fault. Rider - 1 : truck - 0

Nev..
'07 XB12X

 

wrong way around, truck driver 1 and no more rider = 0

 

I call the larger of my two ball-peen hammers "Subtlety"...

....and I concur with Nev's other sentiment. Next time, think before
you post and put a fucking warning in the thread title, Corks.

 

After watching it 3 times (well the first part) the cyclist is in front
of the truck the whole video.

Even so .. some kinda warning would be nice, Will. My 4yo was at my
shoulder when that started.

 

You could have put a warning before that post!

 

I disagree...
1. Judging by the text on the traffic camera, this happened in China.
Note that in China they drive on the right (although this is a multi-
lane road).
2. Note also that one car (the first car) goes straight on in lane
2.
3. The moped rider is going much slower than the blue van in front of
him.
4. He starts off at the right-hand side of the lane and moves to the
left-hand side, then continues over the dotted line. He doesn't
appear to be overtaking anything, so I guess he is moving into lane 2,
the left-turn lane.
5. The truck appears to start moving to his/her left, into a gap in
lane 2 also. I believe the truck wants to get into the middle lane
immediately after the left turn. The truck begins to occupy lane 2 at
the stop line that marks the junction. After starting the maneuver,
the truck sees the moped too late, and swerves back into the ahead-
only lane, lane 1.
6. The moped riders body bursts and is cut into at least two pieces by
the rear wheels of the truck.
7. None of the other cars stop to help.

Conclusion: the moped rider was at fault -- he/she should have been
in the correct lane about 100m earlier. The moped rider was doing a
left turn in front of the truck. The truck driver was going straight-
on much faster than the left-turning moped. The truck driver was busy
executing a maneuver, and checking to his/her left and behind the
truck. I also suspect the moped was under-powered for the road it was
travelling on and couldn't go any faster.

 

BTW the reason nobody stops to help is because they're a bunch of
mindless automatons in cages. They 'see' the accident but mentally
they're in neutral -- they don't think it's anything to do with them
and their task is to get home, so the accident becomes an obstacle to
be navigated around.

....and another thing, trucks=death. Stay behind/ahead of trucks when
they are moving. Pass when they are stationary and get out of the way
before they start moving. I know someone who was run over by a large
truck and survived. He broke a lot of bones (interestingly every
single rib was broken twice, amongst others).

 

if only life was so sign posted

 

toughen up princess , but im sorry the little electrons on your screen
offended you so ....

 

w

 

You're right, he's wrong, we didn't have to look at your post. S'ok, we
won't in future.

 

I swear I have not changed one character of the translated text except
to snip out rambling. My interpretation of the translated text is in
square brackets.

Google translate, Chinese -> English. Automatically translated text:

We drove | Cycling as a safe, the best way to care! [Be careful when
motorcycling; take great care!]
See before turning Guanqian LAB, [Watch this clip, captured at the
turning to Guanquian town in Guichi County. NB: Anhui is a province of
the People's Republic of China. Located in eastern China across the
basins of the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River]
as far as possible, turning mining [gravel lorry WAS turning, late.]
two-step approach [There are two lanes to turn into the approach to
Guanqian]
Do not greedy 1:00 faster, causing you regret.[Do not be an idiot -
try to save one minute journey time, you end up regretting it. Hmmm.
my initial take on this was they were both cutting in at the front -
but there's no traffic in the right hand lane.]

Also translated from the You-Tube-style comments:
"In response to the latest (98)"

"The driving a gravel truck in Taiwan trade unions to protect live!
Little things are not only not related bonuses can take! This is true!
Not to say that I chaos or making uninformed! ... dead union gravel
truck driver will be given 500 million in compensation to the victims,
cars, gravel trucks have a huge amount of insurance, paid the
remaining victims also can be used before, If you do not hit <Rolling>
dead to bear a lifetime of medical fees ... - he was a case .... - to
finish just over half a year" [big business not exactly whiter than
white. Happens a lot. Better off dead than on life support.]

"...Taiwan's notorious gravel trucks..."

"Wakao North next to your car from the gravel three kilometers
farther." [where it happened - by a local]

"...I dislike people fainted on the ground a long time unable to get
up..." [people were fainting at the scene - by a witness]

" Taibai riding a motorcycle is really not my head in the last month
as saying the fast lane straight extension (six lanes). Flash to the
next because the bus so it is natural on the left and then accelerated
when a 125 film to see too many Cavaliers suddenly in my left hand
side mirror after irradiation (convex). About 10 centimeters less
than the distance he saw scratches my car to the door in the first
time the pedal to the metal in the end to the on-off then he began
close contact with the surface of the Earth (together to make a
beautiful sparks) Really is a mentally retarded. Fortunately, my car
is really not be affected too lucky" [Sounds very much like Springvale
near Chelsea Heights to me.]