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The speed limit is only 35 not 40 on that road unless we're looking at different roads? If the driver is paying attention they could turn the wheel a bit and sp

The speed limit is only 35 not 40 on that road unless we're looking at different roads? If the driver is paying attention they could turn the wheel a bit and split the left lane (there doesn't appear to be anyone else on the road) and avoid the person who was half way through the lane at time of impact. Might not clear the person but clipping the back of the bike would certainly be better than a direct impact. You wouldn't even have to jerk the wheel and swerve at such a slow speed and on a dry road with modern tcs even over-correcting is handled by tcs to limit what your input does. Of course all this is just playing arm chair quarterback so who knows if someone including myself would have been able to react in time. More of a thought experiment to how an alternative could have occurred. I'm curious how the visibility differs between what we see on this camera and what a human actually sees in person.

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lhorie 9y ago
According to google maps, the speed limit is 45 northbound (which is the way the car was going), 35 southbound. The report was that the car was going at 38, but I could not find stopping ranges estimates for that exact number. So give or take a little. Looking at the video, it seemed like the driver reacted (facially) about a second after she shifted her gaze from some device to the road. It took me several runs of replaying the video to narrow down the time between when I first saw her shoe and collision to about 2 seconds. Also, recall this was at 10pm. In my opinion, swerving or braking with a 1-2 second notice is extremely hard, especially if it's late and you're tired. To be perfectly honest, if it was me, I don't think I would've been able to react at all before the collision.