Close Call OMW to work

[Cormanus]

Thanks to cb1100_dude for sharing that video and to pdedse for your considered analysis and response and to you both for the subsequent discussion. I think the rider was travelling too fast for the conditions, but that's just my view probably informed by increasing age and decreasing appetite for speed in traffic.

However, the critical points seem to me that traffic was allowed to turn left at that intersection and that cars were parked in the leftmost lane meaning there was no other place for cars wanting to turn left than the lane the blue car was in. The driver may have been at fault by not indicating, but it's academic, isn't it? Travelling straight ahead to the left or right of someone who can lawfully turn across your direction of travel is simply not a safe thing to do.

I'd add to your lessons, cb1100_dude: when lane splitting, reduce the risk by being between two lanes which are obliged to travel straight ahead through an intersection. It won't save you from clowns who make random and illegal turns, but you aren't setting yourself up for the high likelihood that someone will turn ahead of you.

Thanks again for sharing the video.