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Well, it's indeed very "Belgian style", this way of driving... Otherwise I must admit, than many years ago I had a widely comparable crash. A bus came from the left line on the middle line, where I drove, directly to me. Because I didn't wanted to be hit, I turned on the right lane, but ther were (upwards a hill) many very slow trucks and I was too fast (ca.100 km/h) to slow down behind thim, so I turned on the emergency lane - where an Astra F Caravan was standing. I hit the Astra in a similar way with my K 70, as the Focus hit the truck. But noone crashed into my back.
I wasn't injured either, just a small cut in one finger. And fortunately the Astra-driver and his son in the child-seat (he stopped, because his son opened the seatbelt) weren't harmed at all.
But it can be worse: This crash http://www.rp-online.de/panorama/deutschland/vier-tote-schwerer-unfall-auf-der-a31-bid-1.1944282
I failed for not even one minute in the other direction (I was on my way into the office). Four of the six guys in the Audi A6 died.
But it was their own fault. There were six(!) guys (all Bundeswehr-soldiers) in the car, noone wears a seatbelt. The driver accelerated at the beginning of the A31 (at the cross Bottrop with the A2) immediately on 200 km/h (it was around 5:30 in the early morning. Suddenly there were standing cars on the Autobahn after a slighter accident. The Audi-driver was too fast, so he turned onto the emergency-lane. But there stood a truck, whose driver was a witness of the crash...
The accident from the 3.2.09 ("PKW wechselte Fahrspur auf der A2 bei Bottrop")
www.verkehrsirrsinn.de/risikogruppen/motorradfahrer/zweiraeder_1000.html
happened in a similar way as the crash, as in Antoines video. The Touran-driver, who entered the Autobahn, turned directly from the enter-lane onto the far left lane (there are three lanes there!) - without noticing the biker...
The accident from the 3.4.09 ("Riskanter Überholvorgang...") happened in my village - not uncommon here.
I'm living in the first village on the north-western edge of the Ruhr-area, where the first achievable curvy country roads for the Ruhr-inhabitants are.
Especially in spring-times, when the season is starting, masses of biker-morons are annoying us locals.
No kidding: when we looked for a house (before we lived in an apartment, nearly besides this road), I told my wife "I only accept a house, far enough away from these through-country-roads. That annoying bike-noise makes me pissed and I will hate it, to scratch off biker-morons from fence or housewall."
I wasn't injured either, just a small cut in one finger. And fortunately the Astra-driver and his son in the child-seat (he stopped, because his son opened the seatbelt) weren't harmed at all.
But it can be worse: This crash http://www.rp-online.de/panorama/deutschland/vier-tote-schwerer-unfall-auf-der-a31-bid-1.1944282
I failed for not even one minute in the other direction (I was on my way into the office). Four of the six guys in the Audi A6 died.
But it was their own fault. There were six(!) guys (all Bundeswehr-soldiers) in the car, noone wears a seatbelt. The driver accelerated at the beginning of the A31 (at the cross Bottrop with the A2) immediately on 200 km/h (it was around 5:30 in the early morning. Suddenly there were standing cars on the Autobahn after a slighter accident. The Audi-driver was too fast, so he turned onto the emergency-lane. But there stood a truck, whose driver was a witness of the crash...
The accident from the 3.2.09 ("PKW wechselte Fahrspur auf der A2 bei Bottrop")
www.verkehrsirrsinn.de/risikogruppen/motorradfahrer/zweiraeder_1000.html
happened in a similar way as the crash, as in Antoines video. The Touran-driver, who entered the Autobahn, turned directly from the enter-lane onto the far left lane (there are three lanes there!) - without noticing the biker...
The accident from the 3.4.09 ("Riskanter Überholvorgang...") happened in my village - not uncommon here.
I'm living in the first village on the north-western edge of the Ruhr-area, where the first achievable curvy country roads for the Ruhr-inhabitants are.
Especially in spring-times, when the season is starting, masses of biker-morons are annoying us locals.
No kidding: when we looked for a house (before we lived in an apartment, nearly besides this road), I told my wife "I only accept a house, far enough away from these through-country-roads. That annoying bike-noise makes me pissed and I will hate it, to scratch off biker-morons from fence or housewall."