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Dwight wrote: ...it takes years of riding to get to the point of recognizing ALMOST all of the dangerous situations...in this case, as a novice you missed one of them:ALWAYS whenever you're stopped at a red light, CHECK YOUR MIRRORS



Dwight, there's just one problem with your assessment of the situation...I was not stopped at a red light.
I was riding down the road at approximately 30 miles per hour. A 20 year old girl slammed into the rear of my motorcycle while her head was turned to approximately the 5 o-clock position to read a sign in a parking lot she had just passed.

Also, your assessment goes to show the partial guilt that is assigned to motorcyclists (sometimes even from other motorcyclists) when a collision occurs between a car and a motorcycle.

If this same rear end collision occurred, except it was a car that got rear ended while driving down the road instead of a motorcycle...then it would be considered cut and dry that it was totally the fault of the car behind that negligently ran into the other car.

But, when the same collision occurs, except it's a motorcycle that gets rear ended, then non-motorcyclists somehow think that the motorcyclist bears part of the fault simply because he's riding a motorcycle on the highway.
And some motorcyclists think the motorcyle rider bears part of the fault because he should have avoided the rear end collision.
However, as I said, car drivers are never told that they should have avoided a rear end collision.

Very much a double standard indeed.

Regards,
-Ward