VERY scary happening yesterday.....

[Lisa21]

I was on my way to see my friend yesterday, about an hour+a half drive away, mostly country lanes.

As I pootled along one stretch, speed limit 60...i was doing about 45 as its quite a bendy road...i turned a corner and saw a motorbike coming towards me, ON MY SIDE OF THE ROAD. it was a straight bit, i didnt think too much about it as i presumed the rider had pulled out to avoid a rock or puddle or something and would pull back in.

He didnt.
I slowed down to 30 and began thinking "come on mate, get back on your own side" but he just carried on driving towards me, looking straight ahead so he had seen me.
Sh1t.


He was now about a car-length away and i had to really scoot sharpish over to the other lane to avoid hitting him head on, luckily the road was dry and id got new tyres last Friday.

Anyway, i was now on the wrong side of the road, the biker shot past me with inches to spare, and the car which was by this time coming towards me obviously had the same " o heck" moment i had done as i saw the look of horror on his face as he did a last-minute yank-steering-wheel-swerve-across-the-road manouver that i had done seconds earlier.



How the hell nobody got hit is a miracle. The car and bike had vanished, I pulled over, put my hazards on, and burst into tears i was so shaken.

What the heck was that all about???

 

[Lisa21]

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Someone from abroad on their way to the TT?
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[Aperitif]

What bike? Honda Rongside perhaps.

Pleased you are here to tell the tale, Lisa.

 

[Lisa21]

What bike? Honda Rongside perhaps. (groan...)

Pleased you are here to tell the tale, Lisa.

It was flippin scary i can tell you

 

[Svendo]

Be proud you may well have saved that rider's life, certainly prevented much damage and injury.

Someone from abroad is a quite reasonable possibility.

 

[fossyant]

Nightmare.

Bank holiday weekends and the plonkers are out !

 

[Norm]

I had a really, really, scary thing happen to me on Friday, when I checked my phone for new messages...

 

[gbb]

Be proud you may well have saved that rider's life, certainly prevented much damage and injury.

Someone from abroad is a quite reasonable possibility.

+1.
How many people would freeze and the result wouldnt be worth thinking about. Well done lisa


I'd hope the motorcycle rider was thankful and is probably thinking about it hours later. He may have overdone it at speed...and once you're on a line at speed, there's probably not much he could do about it evasion wise. I'll wager he thought his moment had come too. Well done

 

[XmisterIS]

Might well have been what those of us in the motorbiking fraternity call Power Rangers - "All the gear, no idea" types who get on their bikes for one afternoon in every three months; they tend to own very powerful litre sportsbikes which they hardly know how to ride. He may have target-fixated on your car and gone all wide-eyed and rigid.

 

[PatrickPending]

Might well have been what those of us in the motorbiking fraternity call Power Rangers - "All the gear, no idea" types who get on their bikes for one afternoon in every three months; they tend to own very powerful litre sportsbikes which they hardly know how to ride. He may have target-fixated on your car and gone all wide-eyed and rigid.

yeah you see a few of these when the weather's nice, guess they want a Darwin award or something......

 

[Norm]

Butterfly bikes, all pretty colours, flitting around at the start of the summer, shortly to be seen spread across a car's windscreen.

 

[Lisa21]

It took me a while to twig that you weren't on a bike! HaHa!!! crikey, I wish!!!!

It shakes you up, though, doesn't it. The last near miss I had I couldn't drive for about twenty minutes. It was about that for me too......would have been just my luck someone not seein id stopped and rear-ending me

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I'm serious, without knowing where you live. [/quote] Sorry, Im in North Wales. I guess he could have got a bit lost tho

 

[Lisa21]

I had a really, really, scary thing happen to me on Friday, when I checked my phone for new messages...

 

[Black Sheep]

I had one up in the midlands a few weeks back,

holding down the horn while flashing my headlights (and braking of course) seemed to give him the message.

 

[Globalti]

I had one many many years ago in my first job while driving three of the company's senior management to visit a factory. A car came around a corner, the driver looking into the fields and heading fast straight towards me on the wrong side of the road. I had no time to brake so I just drove the car onto the verge and the bloke missed us by inches, great was the relief from my passengers.