Motorcycle 100:0 fault ruling feels unfair; posted on Han Moon-chul TV
A motorcycle was speeding at over 200 km/h in the inner lane of a 70 km/h zone.
It was driving in front of an estimated 1-ton truck in the adjacent lane.
They say a passenger car in front of the truck merged into the lane without using a turn signal.
The motorcycle side argues that the car should bear some portion of the fault.
However, whether the turn signal was used or not,
if you are speeding recklessly in that state, you cannot avoid such an accident.
In reality, the motorcycle was going way too fast.
Normally, on a road like that, cars drive at around 65–80 km/h.
Even if the motorcycle was speeding,
if it had only been going 120–130 km/h,
from a motorcyclist's field of vision, they would have seen the vehicle cutting in from the front of the truck first.
An experienced rider would have seen that coming and slowed down in advance.
Not by slamming on the brakes,
but just slowing down.
Then the accident wouldn't happen.
If you're going 120–130 km/h, you assume there might be a car ahead.
So an experienced rider would take precautions and drop below 110 km/h.
Then, once the gap is visible or the car ahead is cleared,
the bike would either speed up again or move to the adjacent lane.
They saw it while distracted.
They might slam the brakes and tumble,
but seasoned riders don't speed that much; even if they go 100 km/h, that's already fast.
But if you speed like this,
even if you see the car changing lanes, there is no way out. Do you have 10.0 vision?
You need to see the moving object from very far away
to prepare in advance.
Even people with great eyesight or intuition are around 1.5; who can prepare that much?
The person who caused the accident with the motorcycle played like a complete novice.
The car driver judged that there was no one behind them when changing lanes. Naturally, they thought no one was there based on their visibility.
How could they know someone was approaching at over 200 km/h?
At that moment, the only way the speeding motorcycle could react
would be to change lanes itself,
but even if it changed lanes, the sudden handlebar manipulation would cause the bike to veer off and tumble,
or even if it didn't tumble, it would collide with the cars next to it anyway.
So, if you speed like this, there is no way out.
The motorcycle driver is either a complete beginner who just bought a fast bike,
or they were completely out of it that day.
There are cases where cars flip over due to excessive speeding too.
The principle is the same.
It's just that cars have four wheels and much higher traction and durability compared to motorcycles, so while people feel safe, cars can also crash.
The broadcast content and the comments below were almost unanimous: this is a motorcycle that will cause a major accident at any time.
Even if the driver changing lanes hadn't used a turn signal, the accident would have occurred with the same intensity.
Therefore, the 100:0 ruling stands. Period.
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