Damn those bikers!!

Pardon me - but I am just p****d off. If its not a bus, its a rickshaw and if not that, then a bike. Is there no justice in this world?? For what do I drive carefully? Only to be banged into by some stupid biker who wanted to just zip across to save what is perhaps a few seconds of riding time??

Happened yesterday - just as I took a right turn into the road leading to my building, I didn't even realise when the fellow's bike got caught in my car's front left bumper. And why? This fellow thought he could cut right from front of my car despite the fact that my car was already more than half-way into the road as I took the turn - he came almost at right angles to my car and tried to swerve around the front. He mistimed and misjudged it big time...but the result is about to set me back by about 3-4k!! Just imagine - 12:30 in the night, you're driving dead slow (10 km/h), just to take a turn (and because the road ahead is rather bad), happy to be finally home, and then bang! Oh how I wish it was a truck I was driving - cruel as it may seem, these buggers deserve what they get when they're run over!!

S = k.I^2, where S is the amount of stupidity a species possesses, I is the intelligence the species has and k is the universal constant of stupidity.

Hi Rohit

Would like to empathise with your situation and nothing much can be done from our side however , If you have insurance kindly claim it but as the amount is less than 5k i would say not to claim as your premium would be effected .

Did you manhandled the guy as your were angry with your accident ? Did the biker had any damage ?

As I always say eye for an eye would make the world blind. 

My santro car was banged by the same bike guy twice. First time I let him go as he was pleading for mercy , looking at his innocence i let him go on the second time He left the bike any ran off. I got the bike and kept in my house. After two weeks cops came to house stating that i have stolen the bike and were planning to book a case on me. I have shown the cops the Service receipts and told them the story and he was soo scared and told the truth to the cops exactly what happened. Cops asked the guy to pay me for compensation but i refused and told him to clean my car for a month and cops too agreed to it and the Biker did for 15 days and I let him go. 

Never ever take actions in anger it will backfire you. Road rage is dangerous and could lead to serious conflicts and may lead to death.

Regards

Mathew

Its better to prepare and prevent than to repair and repent :)

Well, I was too tired to argue or fight too much (it was well past midnight) - so just let the guy know that he was wrong and let him go. Besides damage done is damage done - no amount of anger or argument is going to reverse that, so in such situations I usually don't lose my cool. Better to accept the fact and cool down rather than give in to anger. I am not going to claim insurance for this...

Anyways it just gets my gall when bikers ride so recklessly - without understanding the fact that be it a car or a bus or anything they hit, it is them who stand to lose the most. A car will get a lot of dents at the most - but the biker does not have the protection the car gives. Coincidentally the same day when the incident occured - just before that on the way home there are a few fly-overs...and you won't believe it - two bikers were involved in an accident. Nothing serious but I guess just the kind where they run into a car or something. They were lucky - it was the highway and the vehicles involved were cars and not trucks or buses!

S = k.I^2, where S is the amount of stupidity a species possesses, I is the intelligence the species has and k is the universal constant of stupidity.

Hi Rohit,

I am not worried about Bikers , the Bus and the truks the way they drive is more apprehensive. To be honest I like the bikers the way they manure the bike in the traffic and zoom past in the bumper to bumper traffic its worth watching. My wife always tell me that she wants a bike ride... alas ! wish I had the skills to showcase her . Have you noticed most of the bikers get challaned more compared to cars !

Regards

Mathew

Its better to prepare and prevent than to repair and repent :)

Even when I give my left signal to get in by building gate, these idiots in chain one after other overtake from left and as a result I block the entire traffic as these biker would bang in my car if I would try to get in. All I can do is keep looking at my left mirror to checkout if any more biker is coming. Last year in Pune, a biker came and banged my car in traffic jam and when I got out of my car, forget about him saying sorry, that idiot gave me a full on attitude look. These bikers make me sick

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@Mathew, Yeah, it looks impressive. But then accidents do not announce their arrival! Given the state of emergency services in our country it is best to either die on the spot or escape relatively unscathed (i.e, able to at least walk). In-between will be like hell - slow, painful death.

I used to read or listen about horrific accidents involving bikers - so horrible that it looks almost unbelievable. But it takes us to witness personally the aftermath of only one such accident to feel the raw fear, repulsion and basically the goriness of the entire thing to know that, yes, the unbelievable can happen. Ever seen a man wrapped around the tyres of a truck? I saw it and it was ghastly...eerie. This is what makes me really angry to see bikers ride the way they do - on what basis do they assume that nothing can happen to them?

If you look at statistics you will find that the maximum fatalities (purely related to vehicular accidents) belong to bikers, which is natural - between a truck and a bike, the latter stands no chance in the event of a collision.

@Omkar, I don't know when bikers will learn. I mean do they not feel sense of fear or doom when they read about some biker meeting a horrible fate?

S = k.I^2, where S is the amount of stupidity a species possesses, I is the intelligence the species has and k is the universal constant of stupidity.

@Rohit - pretty helpless situation to be in.  Before Diwali I too had a similar situation but with an ST bus. I was taking a reverse and out of no where an ST bus comes from behind. I applied the brakes and that idiot just brushed through leaving a paint peel and his paint streaks on my car. Felt bad but then damage was done and traffic was also kind of pilling up. So just left came a little ahead and inspected the damage. The LHS tail light fibre had chipped of between the intersection of the tail light and the bumper, the bumper had scrapped of a bit and the paint from the bus had got streaked onto the bumper. Am still to get it done.

@Mathew - loved the way you dealt with the situation

An accident is generally the result of a screw loose in the nut behind the steering wheel

No offense to two wheeler riders, but some seriously have lost the basic lessons of driving. At least how to keep to their side of the road. That is the reason for most accidents. I dont know of the situation in your places, but here we deal with them seriously. When such instances have happened, we grab the keys, tell the driver to pay up for the damages and then take the keys. As local police are not a problem, there is this advantage. Moreover, these so called rash drivers least bother about proper documents and/or even a licence. Hence, they do get their bike along with the valuable lessons they have lost only after paying up. 

Damage done is done as you say, and hope things get as good as new. Fender gone eh?

Where there is a wheel, there is a way!

Yeah, fender gone. This is the 2nd fender to be replaced. The first one courtesy a rickshaw and this one courtesy the bike. Plus the left mud-guard needs denting and painting too (painting seems to be the most expensive component of the repairs though). I'm trying to keeps costs low - so this fender won't be painted in body colour as that would straight away drive up costs by about 2k. So the rear and front fenders will look different (but I guess I have to live with this, else I have to face SWMBO's wrath ).

S = k.I^2, where S is the amount of stupidity a species possesses, I is the intelligence the species has and k is the universal constant of stupidity.

Hi As rightly said most of the reckless drivers do not have driving license and appropriate documents in most cases. Few bikers change after meeting with their first accident. Few dont change at all and few get deceased while showing the antics on road. I still remember an incident in 1999 most of the bikers used to do wheeling at the cross road junction at the signal , they flaunt their skills there as bus stand happens to be adjacent and they did to impress the college girls who board the bus . One fine day one of the bikers pillion fell down so badly while doing wheeling that he died with a hard collision of head with tarmac and died. , form then onwards i never seen a wheeling till date at that junction I think we need to create awareness among the youth with respect to safe driving and following rules Regards Mathew.


Its better to prepare and prevent than to repair and repent :)