re: Accidents that you witnessed/experienced and what you learnt from them?

we gotta lesson.... Never compromise with safety gear and not to race @ public places..... Now those guys advice others too and are very promt to spend nything for a better safety gear.

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I had an accident around 10days ago. I was coming from Pune.
And that is all I remember. I don't remember the whole friggin accident, in fact I don't remember the whole trip from Pune. I just remember waking up in the hospital ward. I don't even remember the night I was in ICU. And no and I wasn't high or anything. Though I don't have all the riding gear I have (or rather had) a Vega axxor helmet, probiker riding gloves and I was wearing a regular jacket, jeans and shoes.
Here's what I know about the whole incident
Around 9.30 pm my parents got a call from a cop that I had met an accident hardly 3-4 km away from my home in Bombay and told them to come to some govt hospital. My parents rushed to the spot. A few onlooker who were still there told them that it was the car's fault. Later I was shifted to Nanavati hospital which is near my home. Now during the 1st night I was continuously asking where am I and why am I in a hospital, which semester of my engineering is going on, where is my bike etc. And I was asking these every 15 min or so and that is what scared my parents. They thought I had a brain injury! I was fine by the next day but still could not remember the accident. As I was wearing a helmet I escaped with minor injuries. And now, after 10 days I'm perfectly fine other than slight pain in my left wrist.
I suffered minor bruises on my right elbow and knee. The main injury was on my face. Even though I was wearing a helmet, and the helmet shell did a good job, the visor broke, and I got a cut on my right eyebrow, swelling under my eye.


About the accident:
The road where I had the accident has no divider in between n the white line is also almost non existent. I had a head on collision with a Santro. The Santro guy went to the police station after the accident and told that I was racing ( because I was in full racing gear). I had a full size backpack with me. Who races with a full size backpack on their back. According to him i was going fast ( which may have been the case), tried overtaking a tempo and rammed into him (he was coming from the opposite side). Then he lost control and rammed into the tempo.



My recreation of the accident scene.
Here's what I don't understand

I rammed into the passenger side and the tempo rammed into the driver side first. If i was in his way how did the tempo ram into the car. I don't find his explanation of ramming into tempo after me feasible. I doubt the car had enough momentum left to go anywhere.
So maybe he was the one who came onto the wrong side of the road. What do you guys think?
Here is the car



Things I learned:
1. Always wear riding gear.
2. Always get full insurance for your bike. I bought a second hand bike n the dealer gave me a 3rd party liability policy because its cheaper, and now I can't get my bike repaired because I would rather buy another second hand pulsar rather than investing so much on it.


Damage to the bike


1. Font wheel all bent
2. Handle split into two
3. Headlight and speedometer gone
4. Exhaust system gone
5. Taillight gone
This is what I guessed just by looking at the bike for 5 minutes at the police station. Will do a full assessment of damage after I get it back.

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On a lighter note... Your bike ****ed up that santro pretty bad...

You were probably present there at a wrong and unfortunate time when the accident between tempo and santto was imminent.

How about photos of tempo.

You can claim 3rd party insurance of santro to repair your bike.

When your head bangs hard against any object..a short term memory loss happens something similar to knock-out punch in boxing.

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No photos of the tempo. Took these at the police station. The tempo was not there. Don't know why. My parents have told me to,concentrate on my exams and forget about the bike right now.


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This is something which only a few people around me know. And even today it scares the hell out of me.

Background:

Have an activa, riding it for 2.5 odd years. And really a expert due to experience. learnt bike from friends, that too tried just 4-5 times.
I get admission into first yr engg, a new group of friends and all. I travel to colg by bus coz its quite far. I've got a friend who usually used to come on activa. but, his elder brother has a pulsar 180 ug3. he used to bring it to college sometimes. As we were quite good friends he used allow me to ride his bike.

i rode his bike for 5-6 times and i thought that i've gained perfection over it. Me and a other friend of mine had gone to get something to eat from sgs mall on his bike. As biking was new to me, i wanted to touch 100kmph on the le meridian road, just for the sake of seein a 3 digit number on digital console.

i waz riding at 103, and the road has a bend, which i totally forget, i was very near to it, and i could not lean the pulsar and manage a turn because i was new to it(if it were activa or any other gearless vehicle, i could have easily managed that turn), just inches away of ramming in the divider and i thought, that if i pull the disc brake, both of will surely die on spot, somehow i just closed the throttle, started applying rear brakes, and booom, the crash into divider(now this may sound funny but it saved our lives), what i had in mind waz to just slow down as much as possible, take support of divider and manage the turn just like i used to do in nfs most wanted. we were not wearing any gears.the bikes handle, crash guard, our knees were scraping against the divider for some 10 mtrs.

my friends knee waz hurting like helll because even that was hitting to the divider. we reached colg after taking a u turn on rto. my right shoe and socks was totally burn, could see my fingers, 5 seconds more, and my fingers would also have been plucked out. the friend sitting behind me was unable to move his right leg, i was tensed coz i thought he broke his leg and xams were 2 weeks later. Miraculously 2 hours later he jumping up and down in his room infront of us...i was totally unhurt. the bike just got a few scratches. It is a very hard to believe incident, but its the truth, crashing at 100kmph without gear on a divider(i think the reason we survived was because it is a full height divider, upto the waist) and coming out unhurt. truly only god saved us that day, thats what i believe.

Current day: My Friend who was sitting behind me owns a p150 ug4.5 and i own a p180 ug 4.5. In third yr now. Its been almost a year that i've got my own bike. and i ride it pretty safely and responsibly.

PS: Never had an accident on my activa or my P180 in the last 5 years of my riding.

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^^ so what u learnt from that accident.

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what i learnt is never try to do things which u know u are not capable of...!!! Practice and experience is a must for everything..!

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PMT guys are quite responsible according to me, they do avoid a lot of accidents which could have taken place because of other's mistakes. Ppl try to take them for granted and do not respect the size of their bus, they just try to put in their swift or passion in small places and mostly try to overtake from the blindspot of the bus driver.

its the rickshwallahs who are d nuisance, they think that their rickshaw is a motogp bike or a formula1 car...!!

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PMT guys are quite responsible according to me, they do avoid a lot of accidents which could have taken place because of other's mistakes. Ppl try to take them for granted and do not respect the size of their bus, they just try to put in their swift or passion in small places and mostly try to overtake from the blindspot of the bus driver.

its the rickshwallahs who are d nuisance, they think that their rickshaw is a motogp bike or a formula1 car...!!

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One of the 3 guys from our village who still commutes on bicycle died yesterday when a TATA 207 DI carrying bamboos hit him. The other bicyclist was killed a few months ago when a Maruti car fender bendered him, that makes me the only bicyclist alive in our village, and I'm scared man, I'm really scared. I have never been scared this much in my life before.

When the accident happened people thought I was the one who was hit, also thanks to all the xBhpians who contacted me to inquire if I was hurt. I'm alive but probably at the verge of having a nervous breakdown. Today morning while commuting, I kept looking backwards and was sweating too much even in the cold weather. Well, that's it, no more bicycling on the narrow NH37 without shoulder.

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I'm royally screwed, ah, what did I learn? There are no truckers in India who can drive properly.

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Then by implications that entail, there is no driver/rider on the planet who can drive properly.

What do you mean by properly here?

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I was going normally on my p200ns, when a loading auto overtook me and then we were in such a position that his extreme back with in line with handle of my bike. It was normal, everything was as normal as I've experienced from last 6 years of my riding, normal traffic position.
BUT ,I FORGOT to notice the hanging chain they have to hook up their gates,
When my handle was in line to his back door, the chain somehow, grabbed my handle and I didn't know of it. When auto accelerated a little, chain got pulled,my handle got pulled which pushed my handle to right and I went down to left, boom.
Loss- bent disc, bent sliver handle bar, bent.leg guard, dent on elbow.
Lesson learnt- the handle bar width of 200ns is very long, and riding in line with another vehicle can lead to condition I suffered.

Sent while Riding a 10sec bike.

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Heh heh cool down Cleaner. My experience with truck drivers has been opposite, I find them responsible. Its the car wallas one must be careful of.
I have had negative experiences of trucks too, but those have been rare. But cars? Ohh well the list is long. Their unwillingness in letting you pass them, have lost count of the number of times I had to overtake from the wrong side because some driver was too lazy to change lanes or too arrogant, "Bike wallah 100 ke upar mere ko overtake karega??" (Biker will overtake me over 100 kmph??). Truck drivers on the other hand check ahead and then let you pass if it is safe.

I recall one incident. Recently I rode across 4 states, so it was a sort of a long ride (2200 kms in total). Now there was this busy highway with lots of trucks that had to be overtaken. I had a car in front, then a long trailer and then some space. I thought there was easily enough space for both the car and myself. As both me and the car overtook the long trailer and the car settled in, I realised that it was too tight for me to fit in as well . Another truck was approaching from the other side on this two lane road. The car driver saw I was in trouble but looked back straight and avoided me, did not break or accelerate. The trailer saw this and braked creating some space where I could squeeze in. I gave a thumbs up to the trailer and life was as usual. The point here is that it is more difficult for trailers to regain speed once they shed it, it must be irritating, I know it is for me even when I am on a bike and all it takes is one twist of the throttle. The car driver saw me and sort of shrugged his shoulders, "the motorcyclist miscalculated, if he crashes it is his fault not mine".

Sorry for the OT, back to topic

Was riding to the most popular lake in Udaipur to meet some friends, as I took a turn a dog jumped in front of me. Panic braked, front wheel locked and I kissed the sweet tarmac. It was during initial days of riding, and even though I always rode with a helmet in that one month period I had started riding without one. Lost front three teeth, broke my nose and slight internal bleeding started.

Lesson learnt: Never ever, ever ever ride without a helmet (I don't touch a motorcycle without a helmet now). Learn to brake properly and practice panic braking regularly.

On the ride I just mentioned, going from Mumbai to Pune I crashed once again while leaning in a corner (First crash in last 18000 kms). Apparently the rear tyre has lived its life.

Lesson learnt: Check the essentials of your motorcycle regulalry. Take extra care of brakes and tyres.

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Speak in simple English please, your words are going over my head. At least use simple language for the sake of Orwell.

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Stay safe! I picked up commuting to office in Gurgaon for sometime. But, it was scary as hell and I was completely at the mercy of car and cab wallahs who expected me to have some basic life skills I didn't have. Like vanishing in thin air/teleport to the pavement/Get off the road via premonition of an SUV coming from behind/Pierce into the darkness over the high beam induced blindness/Shrink down to my aukaat as a poor cycle wallah.
End result - Cycling has become an occasional weekend thing on sunday mornings.

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Recently within a month I have seen 3 horrible accidents with bikers involved in them . Their faces were unrecognizable . From that I have learnt to always wear good quality helmet at least . Better to invest in proper protective gear .