Reckless biker tries to overtake from the wrong side, pays the price

The bike rider made a foolish and over-smart decision to overtake all vehicles by riding fast on the opposite lane closer to the divider.

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This happened a few months back. Always kept forgetting about uploading the footage, today I decided to get to it.

This was yet another bad day for my car which in-directly caused an accident. But to be honest, I never anticipated such actions from a biker and didn't even realize what exactly happened until I got home and checked the footage of both front and rear dashcams.

Coming to the matter, I was sort of in a hurry to reach home for some reason that I am unable to recollect now, the Skoda in-front of me was not letting me pass and was slowing down excessively due to the pathetic road conditions. I had made up my mind to overtake the Skoda and drive ahead peacefully without worrying to brake at every road undulations due to the car in-front. I was driving really close to the road divider and also checked my IRVM to make sure no one in trying to overtake my car. I had glanced at the right side ORVM but couldn't notice the biker coming from the wrong side mostly due to two reasons: He was far back initially; There were some bushes on the divider obstructing the view of the opposite lane behind me. The moment I got a chance to overtake the car in-front, I took it and had almost merged back into my lane when I realized something happened at the back. There was some screeching noise (from skidding) followed by a cloud of dust. Only then I realized that the biker had crashed but it was still unclear how exactly.

The bike rider made a foolish and over-smart decision to overtake all vehicles by riding fast on the opposite lane closer to the divider. He did have enough time to anticipate that the vehicles in front might make an overtaking maneuver but decided to just speed through and find a gap to overtake. Unfortunately from him, luck wasn't on his side that day and he panicked after seeing my car on the middle lane and the pickup truck on the opposite lane leaving him no gap to overtake and hence applied the brakes causing him to skid and fall. I think maybe ABS would've helped in this scenario but judging by the looks of his bike, I don't think it was equipped with ABS. Forget ABS they didn't even have helmets on and were flying through the wrong lane counting on their luck.

After realizing what had happened, I was glad that my car did not have any impact and was feeling a little guilty for those bikers but I could've done nothing to save them since I never expected them to do what they did. I am assuming they were not grievously hurt since they had applied brakes and I could see the rider getting up immediately after the accident from the rear cam footage. I just hope that they have learned their lesson and try to be more careful and follow the traffic discipline while on roads.

TL;DR: Two helmet-less and brain-less rider had a fall trying to overtake from the wrong side of the divider. Also get a dual dashcam if you haven't yet!

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