we need to prevent the deaths happening in the first place. I got hit from a blind driver (he must have been, as he said he didn't see me). I was turning into a junction on the right, where he was pulling out off, he didn't stop at the junction, just pulled right out, (it was a give way junction). Now, if that had been a STOP junction, I wouldn't have been hit, only if he abided by the highway code that is. I feel petrified when I'm out on the bike now, because I feel as though no-one see's me, or cares about me being on the road. I have a constant feeling that I'm going to be hit at any time, and have these thoughts that this is my last ride out, where I won't see my family again, just like the outcome of this topic. I'm not sure if I'll keep riding or not, but if I do, I tend to want to do it in a group, and when we are approaching junctions on the left and right, I close right up to the bloke in front, in the hope that he has been seen, and so will I. However this isn't always practical, and junctions now scare the shiit out of me. My own thoughts would be to have traffic lights on permanent red at side junctions, until the main road is clear of ALL traffic. I know that's never going to happen, so leaves me in a quandary as what to do, go riding, and hope for the best and be glad when I make it back home. Or forget about riding all together. As for that woman that killed this poor biker, I don't have any sympathy at all, as she has used her car as a weapon, this is not an accident, this is death by dangerous driving, and she needs to be punished accordingly. That will never bring the biker back, but I hope and pray that something (don't know what), happens to allow us bikers enjoy riding a motorbike, in a safer manner than we do at the moment. By the way I was doing about 10 mph at the time of being hit, and ball bag was doing about 30. I had a TDM 900 that was written off, just glad I wasn't. I have Brenda from Motorcycle law Scotland representing me. I damaged my shoulder in the COLLISION, and am due to see a specialist on 5th august. Ride safe people, I know it may not be enough but we can only cross our fingers and hope that it never happens to us.
alex