Exile
Senior Member
- Location
- Manchester
For all the "could've, should've" that's being banded about here, I can't help but wonder if the insurance decision would have been the same had it been two lanes of cars the driver was crossing and had a car v car smash rather than car v bike. Also wonder how accepting of the insurers decision the motorcyclist would've been if it had been a right turning car flashed out of the side road which then knocked him off.
The long and short of it is that it's a drivers responsibility to ensure each manoeuvre they make is carried out safely. Just because another driver flashes to say they're letting you turn across them doesn't mean it's safe to do so right at that moment. Whatever the cyclist could have done in the lead up to this collision in order to avoid it really doesn't have any bearing on who's responsible. After all, we could all remove the risk of being involved in a collision if we stayed at home all the time.
The long and short of it is that it's a drivers responsibility to ensure each manoeuvre they make is carried out safely. Just because another driver flashes to say they're letting you turn across them doesn't mean it's safe to do so right at that moment. Whatever the cyclist could have done in the lead up to this collision in order to avoid it really doesn't have any bearing on who's responsible. After all, we could all remove the risk of being involved in a collision if we stayed at home all the time.