Canuck
Well-Known Member
I don't see safety of lane splitting as the issue. To me, the attitude of both drivers is the issue. There would be no issue if both drivers had just a modicum of respect for each other.
What gets me, is how anyone can drive a motorcycle on busy roads like California highways. I sure hope they have good life insurance policies if they have families who depend on them. I love life too much to engage in such reckless and risky behaviour. Regardless of how safe you ride, you have absolutely no protection as you speed down the road surrounded by masses of metal travelling in all directions around you. How many of us have had accidents in our cars? Place yourself on the outside of your vehicle in that accident. Two years ago I lost a friend when an 83 year old lady turned in front of him. I had debated with him about the safety of riding a motorcycle just two weeks prior when he rode his bike to my cabin. It was really sad. Plus, while crash rates are going down for vehicles, and death rates are also going down, due to improved vehicle designs, in southern California, a KPCC analysis of statewide crash data found overall motorcycle collisions and fatalities increased 23 percent from 2003 to 2012, the latest data available through the Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System.
Those are the statistics you people who ride motorcycles in southern California face regardless of the safety of lane splitting. I really hope you don't become part of the statistics.
What gets me, is how anyone can drive a motorcycle on busy roads like California highways. I sure hope they have good life insurance policies if they have families who depend on them. I love life too much to engage in such reckless and risky behaviour. Regardless of how safe you ride, you have absolutely no protection as you speed down the road surrounded by masses of metal travelling in all directions around you. How many of us have had accidents in our cars? Place yourself on the outside of your vehicle in that accident. Two years ago I lost a friend when an 83 year old lady turned in front of him. I had debated with him about the safety of riding a motorcycle just two weeks prior when he rode his bike to my cabin. It was really sad. Plus, while crash rates are going down for vehicles, and death rates are also going down, due to improved vehicle designs, in southern California, a KPCC analysis of statewide crash data found overall motorcycle collisions and fatalities increased 23 percent from 2003 to 2012, the latest data available through the Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System.
Those are the statistics you people who ride motorcycles in southern California face regardless of the safety of lane splitting. I really hope you don't become part of the statistics.