thughes317
Well-Known Member
Or passing in a no passing zone? I got in a pretty heated debate in another forum with a rider who insisted the double yellow meant nothing and he was going to pass slower traffic whenever he wanted. Wonder if he's still alive?I’m wondering if the author of that article is misunderstanding the data?
He says, “55% of motorcycle fatalities involved a collision with another motor vehicle. 42% of these accidents involved the driver turning left while the motorcyclist rode alongside them going straight.”
It’s hard for me to believe that this could be correct. I have not looked at the data, but in the past one of the most common crash types is a motorcyclist traveling straight through an intersection, but an oncoming driver making a left turn across the path of the motorcyclist. My guess is that the data describes this situation but the author of that article thinks that what they are describing is a car in a motorcyclists driving side-by-side and the car driver turning left into the motorcyclist because he’s talking about lane control systems and blindspot monitoring neither of which would do anything in the typical intersection crash, which I described, and which I think is probably much more common. What do you think? Am I missing something?