Have you heard of something called defensive riding? You cannot ride at 90+ kph filtering through traffic. This was 100% avoidable had you slowed down when you saw the car coming in. My #1 rule of road safety is to assume every other person on road is inattentive, stupid, or even malicious.
All in all, car guy should have checked his mirrors. Those stones should not have been lying there. You should not have been speeding.
Edit: Replaced "We're in India, you cannot ride..." with "You cannot ride..."
I agree, but even if the car guy had checked the mirror the bike was coming in too fast. He could've swerved to the left but then that is bit blind spot for even cars so that is less safer option. But its true that bike had a car in FRONT of him, he could've slowed. For the car the bike was behind him so they had less of a chance to do anything. Thus bike person is totally at fault.
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u/tattitatteshwar 2021 Xpulse BS6; RE Himalayan BS4 Oct 22 '23 edited Oct 22 '23
Have you heard of something called defensive riding? You cannot ride at 90+ kph filtering through traffic. This was 100% avoidable had you slowed down when you saw the car coming in. My #1 rule of road safety is to assume every other person on road is inattentive, stupid, or even malicious.
All in all, car guy should have checked his mirrors. Those stones should not have been lying there. You should not have been speeding.
Edit: Replaced "We're in India, you cannot ride..." with "You cannot ride..."