I contend that the rider could have got around the bend. He bottled it a bit where he should have accelerated but then target fixation kicked in and his primary focus became the car rather then the line that would have got him round, severely shaken but with his bike in one piece.
Been there and done it in my feckless youth and thankfully my sense of immortality has long since abandoned me. The impetuous nature of youthful exuberance explains the event but doesn't excuse it.