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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I lived that situation. Years back a guy in a motorcycle rear ended me. I was cruising at a good pace on Crowchild and I saw the bike closing in fast in my rearview. Seconds later some ####### decided to change lanes without checking and cut me off and I had to slam my brakes. No problem for me but as I slowed down I could see like in slow motion the biker going way too fast and imminent collision in the back of my car. He hit my rear and the bike went up the back of my car and I watched as he went cartwheeling forward past the driver side of my car. He was in bad shape and they had to cut his jacket off before they took him away in a stretcher. The police retrieved one of his shoes about 25 feet forward from where he hit my car. Out of coincidence he was a TD customer as well so when I was dealing with insurance I asked them how he was doing and they said not good as he was still in the hospital two weeks later.
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Yeah and that clearly illustrates the issue. You can be involved in just an unlucky accident and the consequences on a bike are severe. It's fine on the highway, but not without its risks. You just remove the big one, which is traffic.