I got in to a small accident and while it may seem I am at fault, I feel that he should have taken the turn slower and looked before turning.
I was riding in a somewhat busy street, which is one lane in one direction and another lane in another direction. It is a main street for the area, but speed limit is probably 25 or 30 MPH. While riding I saw a police car coming towards me in the oncoming traffic lane. I decided to speed up and ride to the right side of the car in front of me to avoid the police car seeing me on my ebike which has footpegs and also looks like a small motorcycle.
While I did this, I estimate I could have been riding about 30MPH, I was probably towards back right of his car, this guy makes a fairly quick right turn into a parking lot of a store cutting me off.
What I did was lock the rear brakes and turn the wheel right. I believe the rear of my bike skidded out fast and slammed very hard into the middle of his very new 4 door car. I fell into his car with my left shoulder. My left shoulder hurt for a day and I had some scrapes on my left arm from rubbing on his car. My footpeg bracket broke on my bike.
I didn't look to see the damage but I assume that if my footpeg bracket broke from my bike slamming sideways into his car, because I skidded the rear out on my bike right into the side of his car, it must have done some damage to what looked to be a nice new shiny 4 door car.
My feelings are that even though I probably should not have been to his right, he should have slowed down to a low speed and turned slowly into his right turn into the driveway. If he would have done this it would have given me lots of time to react to his turn. This is exactly what I do when riding my car because I will slow my speed to 10-15MPH slowly and then really look before making a right turn into a driveway on a busy street. I always assume someone is trying to pass me on my right or go around me on my right. This guy it seems made a pretty quick right turn into the driveway.
I feel that this guy deserved any damage I did to his car and hopefully he learned a lesson to not turn so quickly into a parking lot without slowing up and checking that nobody is trying to go around you in my busy city.
Some questions:
1) Do you feel that he deserved any damage he got on his car for making a right turn into a driveway giving me no time to react to his turn?
Or think of it like this, if friend came to you and said someone slammed into the side of his car after he was making a right turn into a store driveway on a busy street, would you say it was his fault or the bikes fault.
2) Was it a smart thing for me to lock up the rear wheel and slam the rear of my bike into his car and falling sideways into his car as a way to avoid injuring myself. I believe that the bike and footpeg bracket breaking took some of the impact off the crash and saved my expensive fork of my bike.
3) Should I have tried and applied any front brake?
Here is a pic to the damaged footpeg bracket on my bike, the impact must have been fairly hard to crack and bend the bracket as its thick aluminum. The bracket broke and part of it bent inwards.
I was riding in a somewhat busy street, which is one lane in one direction and another lane in another direction. It is a main street for the area, but speed limit is probably 25 or 30 MPH. While riding I saw a police car coming towards me in the oncoming traffic lane. I decided to speed up and ride to the right side of the car in front of me to avoid the police car seeing me on my ebike which has footpegs and also looks like a small motorcycle.
While I did this, I estimate I could have been riding about 30MPH, I was probably towards back right of his car, this guy makes a fairly quick right turn into a parking lot of a store cutting me off.
What I did was lock the rear brakes and turn the wheel right. I believe the rear of my bike skidded out fast and slammed very hard into the middle of his very new 4 door car. I fell into his car with my left shoulder. My left shoulder hurt for a day and I had some scrapes on my left arm from rubbing on his car. My footpeg bracket broke on my bike.
I didn't look to see the damage but I assume that if my footpeg bracket broke from my bike slamming sideways into his car, because I skidded the rear out on my bike right into the side of his car, it must have done some damage to what looked to be a nice new shiny 4 door car.
My feelings are that even though I probably should not have been to his right, he should have slowed down to a low speed and turned slowly into his right turn into the driveway. If he would have done this it would have given me lots of time to react to his turn. This is exactly what I do when riding my car because I will slow my speed to 10-15MPH slowly and then really look before making a right turn into a driveway on a busy street. I always assume someone is trying to pass me on my right or go around me on my right. This guy it seems made a pretty quick right turn into the driveway.
I feel that this guy deserved any damage I did to his car and hopefully he learned a lesson to not turn so quickly into a parking lot without slowing up and checking that nobody is trying to go around you in my busy city.
Some questions:
1) Do you feel that he deserved any damage he got on his car for making a right turn into a driveway giving me no time to react to his turn?
Or think of it like this, if friend came to you and said someone slammed into the side of his car after he was making a right turn into a store driveway on a busy street, would you say it was his fault or the bikes fault.
2) Was it a smart thing for me to lock up the rear wheel and slam the rear of my bike into his car and falling sideways into his car as a way to avoid injuring myself. I believe that the bike and footpeg bracket breaking took some of the impact off the crash and saved my expensive fork of my bike.
3) Should I have tried and applied any front brake?
Here is a pic to the damaged footpeg bracket on my bike, the impact must have been fairly hard to crack and bend the bracket as its thick aluminum. The bracket broke and part of it bent inwards.
