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

I live in a small town. Aligarh. Am a doctor. When I was in my first year r15 came. Oh boy the attention I received with that bike. Even got scooped up into local bike group with all the wheelies and endoz and burnouts. Did a lot of crazy stuff. 6 years later while doing my emergency posting I realised every god damn single day we had atleast 2 3 cases of bike accidents. I got fed up and one day asked a 16 old pt who came with a broken wrist what the hell happened coz I somehow felt I knew him form somewhere. Turns out he was in the same stunt group and they had a race and he in all his glory skidded while attempting to take over the next guy. On a freakin public road. With traffic. Mid day. I was stumped. Coz back in our days none of this existed. We did our stuff but we did it on isolation. Away from traffic and general people on an abandoned plot. What he told me shocked me the most. Bhaaaai. An Badi bike aa gayi gain yahan kaun jayega wahan baccho me saath stunt krne. (We have bigfer displacement bikes and we dont want to go to the plot with kids anymore )/At that moment I wanted to break his other wrist. He was so casual with the excuses and everuthing.. Long story short. As the CC of a bike increases common sense decreases in these younger generations. No wonder we admit so many kids with broken bones now days..

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Riding gear is important!

Guys always wear proper riding gear while riding motorbike specially a high end one.
I just had an accident while leaning into a corner, my bike slipped and slided across the road with my bike and i hurt my left knee really bad. But my hands were saved thanks to the biking gloves, i wish i had knee guards that time.

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

I started riding at very young age of 12. Around an experience of hardly 1k and an age of 16, I was immensely happy on a fine day and was riding at 55-60kmph on an Activa in a 10 foot wide street that wasn't tarmac. The road was completely bound by extended compound walls and there was no view of the vehicles moving in and out of by-lanes. A kid who was my age came banking a Karizma at around 40Kmph from one of those bylines and we noticed each other when we were hardly 5 feet apart. Nothing much was done and my Activa's front wheel stopped after climbing the Karizma's. The other guy got pressed under the weight of both the bikes and was decently injured. I, on the other hand, couldn't balance and fell to the ground. In the process of sudden impact, my nose edge got heavily scratched and bled. No serious injuries to either of us but, one of those first lessons I learnt.

I learnt a micro and a macro lesson that day.

Micro: Always suit your speed to the road and the potentially available space, considering all the road conditions. It's good to drive 120 on a tolled highway, 80 on a normal highway, 40 on a city's main road, and hardly 30 in lanes. If you're exceeding the general limit, remember that you are risking yourselves. Use of horns and indicators? Well, that's what they are for.

Macro: Rashness and speed are different. I was driving rashly that day. It was a lane I went through everyday, but never that fast or rash. It is good to rev the machine, whenever possible, but to judge the possibilities with safety being the top priority is being smooth. And Rash driving ain't good for the universe and its tendency towards complexity.

The worst accident you survived or saw happen

The title says it all. So I l share my worst accident.This happened last year I went for a ride from my home 2 National Games Village and this was early morning so I was going at a high speed but it was still dark. I hit a jump at atleast 90-100 km/h. And all I remember seeing is the bike doing somersaults. And I wake up to see my shoulder scraped off. And major bruises. And blood all over my shirt. Not trying to glorify speeding by posting this..I learned to be a sane rider the hard way. And about riding gear.. I thank God I m still in one piece considering how I used to ride with no regard to myself or others

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

[QUOTE=aargee;894024]Accident that I haven't witnessed nor been part of it, but for sure, it got me down this morning...

Feel free to remove if inappropriate as there could be 1000's of such stories floating around the internet & potentially this thread could be misused[/QUOTE [MENTION=26407]aargee[/MENTION] i felt so sorry for the boy and the whole incident is harsh, unknowingly tears welled up in my eyes after a long time in years i cried. You are kind enough to fulfull his wishes.

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

A few years back I was on my Honda Aviator heading homewards in the rain when an auto darted across my path to heed the hailing of a prospective passenger.
A sedan was waiting to let me go before cutting across the road to the other side of the road. The taxi driver saw me turn my head towards the errant auto and took his chance to cross the road. When I turned my head back the car was barely 10 feet away. I froze but the bike continued onwards. The car took evasive action but I rammed my left side on its left wing, fell and skidded with the scooter on the slippery wet road another 20 feet and came to rest. I suffered from an ACL tear on my right knee.
Lesson learnt,
1. If you want to unfreeze you must train to keep moving all the time, at least the throttle wrist if you need to stay alive.
2. Never drive or ride a two a wheeler when you cannot keep your emotions under your control. If you lose your cool, get off the bike or park somewhere, drink a glass of water.

Accident

As the number of accidents are increasing day by day on indian roads ,specially with bikers,
What should we do immediately after we are involved in an accident,and are not at fault,
as the people nearby the spot of accident
would definitely blame us and in the worst case beat the hell out of us ,like it happened sometime ago with the ktm rider.

So what should we do then to save us?

Be safe in rural areas on bike

BikeRiders : A must read story for you

Hello Everyone,
Thought to share a incident happened yesterday with me and could happen with anyone riding bike either pro or newbie. This incident happened when i was returning to Gurgaon from my hometown Aligarh in evening 4 PM. I chose to go by the aligarh-tappal road that is single lane road for 50 kms and then you can be on yamuna expressway to gurgaon via noida and delhi. I was going smoothly at 50 kmph with full concentration on road as the road crosses through remote areas where people can just run across roads like nothing. So with full attention i was going and was wearing helmet and gloves. Suddenly i saw that a person is crossing that road while talking on phone without looking for traffic from right side to left side and as he was about to cross, i was getting intuitions that something is going to happen wrong and suddenly that man just stepped back turning on the road. I didn't even got time to react and my bike crashed into that guy and he fall down on the road screaming as his leg bone was boken and i too fell down on the road but thanks to my helmet and gloves that i didn't got any major injuries. People on the sides of road were watching that i wasn't wrong anyway but the lady around 45 of age to whom that guy has came to met started crying and started blaming me. I pulled my bike to road side and helped that guy to get him to the local hospital in front of accident spot. From his side many people were there as they were local to that place and i was about 20 kms far from my location but the district is same. They created chaos situation and i got little worried as to what to do like those people will not see whose fault was there and who is wrong. They can simply harm you. I reacted calmly as that lady gave a call to their family members and asked them to come. I understood the situation and called 100 for Police help at that moment. I called police as i was very sure that those illiterate humanity less pathetic people can do anything to me in anger. Many thanks to Uppolice that they arrived within few minutes and handled the situation. It took me 1hour 20 minutes to complete all that and finally compromise situation was there for which i gave 7000 Rs. As compensation to the family of that fool person. My bike got damaged but i was safe. I thanked god that he saved me today and i started back my journey to gurgaon. Sometimes and always your life is very much important than bike and money.

So rider mates always be careful and if somehow you get into this kind of situation in remote areas, first go for administrative help as at that time no one will listen to you whether you are not wrong or you were driving safely. Be wise and react calmly and Be safe. #Be safe #Ride Responsibly.

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

At the outset, thanks for sharing your ordeal which provides us with an insight as to how to handle such situations when they arise and which can happen to anybody. It is a pity that our public at large gets away everywhere with jay walking, driving, riding and walking around whilst talking on mobile phones whilst our laws are lax to penalise such actions. Remember, nowadays most pedestrians & motorists survive accidents as they rely on the goodwill of other people on the road. Kudos to you for keeping your cool and presence of mind.

Re: Be safe in rural areas on bike

I would recommend getting an action cam or a dash cam... Hardly costs a few thousand rupees but can be a life saver such as in your case

Also in such a case it's best to just Run away( as other people are there to look after the victim ) and go immediately to the police station and report what happened and since there was a threat to you by the locals(villagers) you decided to flee.

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

[MENTION=92909]Ridernitin[/MENTION]- it's always the fault of the more expensive vehicle owner, trust me. Happened to me too. However I slow down in advance and honk whenever somebody tries to cross or even faces the road. This gets the attention.

Action cam is good only in court. Even local cops will support the local guys, so the best strategy if you and the bike are in shape is to run for your life. There was a time when I was searching for a knife or scissors in a hospital because there were around 4 guys who threatened to bash me up if I didn't pay the amount they were asking. I didn't find one, otherwise there would have been at least one death that day.

#ProjectMCAS

I recently started a new Youtube Series titled Motorcycle Accident Stories or MCAS which is basically a Project

The main objective of this project is to Share the experience of a Motorcycle accident (if you ever had one) with the Motorcycling community so that other riders can benefit from it.

This project is very much dependent on various riders participating and contributing towards it. As such I would like to personally Invite all of you guys to take part in this Initiative.

Here is a Public Playlist for ProjectMCAS which will consist of all entries and submissions about various types of Motorcycle Accidents in India

This Video will help you better understand what an MCAS is all about and how you can structure your Story

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me.

All other relevant links will be in my Signature below!

How I almost killed a motorcyclist!

Last week I was at my friend's wedding reception. A few of us happen to meet after a decade. After having a good time, I left and on the way back I remembered something that made me go cold, the effect of which I still feel and will remember for my entire life...for good.
Rewind around 8 years back, we just had passed out of engineering college and the same friend who got married recently had bought spanking new Swift VDI (In 2010, Swift was THE car to buy). One night, 5 of us drove in his car to a 24 hour CCD and had coffee over silly jokes. While returning, I requested him to let me drive to which he happily obliged. (I have been blabbering about IC engines since day 1 of our college, so they thought I knew what I was doing). I was used to driving my dad's Zen (approx. 60 HP) and drove the Swift (approx. 100 HP) for the first time.
As we started rolling down the hill, the car picked up the pace and to keep the engine in "happy state" I kept upshifting which was damn easy in the new Swift. Everybody in the car was carefree and laughs were constant, while beats of some English song from the attached pen drive were playing loud on the new stereo. It was a state of trance, a Dil Chahta Hai moment for me. The only problem was, I was not Amir and we were not cruising on Mumbai Goa highway,
As we approached a junction (the lane that connects Pashan and Baner roads in Pune, on the Pashan road), a motorcyclist (a black Pulsar DTSi) exited from the lane and stopped right in the middle of the road. The guy was wearing a black windcheater and a black helmet and must a be an IT engineer (he was wearing specs inside his helmet). As soon as he saw us charging towards him, he dropped his bike and ran back towards the lane leaving a very small gap between himself and the bike.
I gave a small but fast input to the steering wheel maneuvering the car just between the dropped bike and the guys himself. All this happened within the fraction of a second. I didn't dare to look in the rearview mirror but was sure that everybody inside and outside the car was safe. For a moment there was silence in the car, I could feel my palms being sweaty even when the A\C was running at high speed. Due to the silence, the song was awfully loud.
One friend (who is now settled in the US) broke the silence and said that I made a good call to maneuver the car between the gap else the car would collide with the motorcycle. I think everyone agreed with him in the car and were in awe of my driving skills. I don't remember what happened next, but this incident has left a big mark on me.
Deep down I know, that it wasn't totally the motorcyclist's mistake. He should have slowed down and checked the oncoming traffic, but given the speed we were (thanks to me) carrying, things were not in his favor in any way. I was not totally right, an open stretch of road in the middle of the night is not same as an express highway. I should have carried only as much speed as I could slow down just before the lane expecting somebody to make a mistake.
What if, it was not our (including the motorcyclist) lucky day? Something would have really gone bad and the chances of we driving over the motorcyclist and killing him were very high. The sole responsible person would have been the 22 years high on adrenaline ME. Instead of sitting in a comfortable A\C with my family today, I would have dreaded in the jail. The family of the IT guy would have an irreparable damage because of my silly but fatal mistake.
Fast forward to today's time. I was driving pass by the other side of the lane (the Baner side) and what I mentioned above went through my mind again and made me feel exactly the same way as it did that night. I am lucky to be "on the other side, on the lucky side". This incident has made me realize that how important it is to slow down at junctions especially in the city and why respecting speed limits is uttermost important.
Hence I request you all to learn from my lesson and be careful. Be careful when you ride bike and while exiting lanes or driving a car passing by the junctions. You never know....


Rushikesh Ware
TheBikingDiaries.in

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

Completely agree with you, although I would've done the same thing given the scenario. Night time, open roads, and a swift. I'd be full on pedal to the metal in no time.

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

Back sometime in 2010/11, me and my dad were going to a restaurant where his colleagues were having a small dinner party (guys only... Yeah, my dad was cool like that! [emoji13]). Our house was adjacent to the chennai Bangalore highway, which is why we usually took that route to avoid the chennai traffic. As we were cruising on the highway and my dad, humming a tune (he does that when he's riding) we heard screeching of tyres on the opposite lane. I was trying to get a funny picture for some stuff "The Hindu" used to publish, on my dad's Samsung corby (pretty funky phone back in the day) and i panned the camera towards the sound. I saw a swift directly crashing into an old woman who was on a bicycle and as soon as it hit her, she flew into the air and hit the ground several feet away from the car. Her bicycle kept sliding through the road for a good 20 feet... A woman popped out of the car, shrieking and crying, babbling something in Tamil i couldn't make out. People gathered, and we parked on the side of the highway(the whole traffic had come to a standstill by now). We crossed the highway and as we reached the scene, someone cried out that she's dead. I was petrified as I heard this and a 15 year old me clutched onto my dad's shirt and said that I wanted to leave. We reached the party a bit late, but we couldn't really get into the party mood, I remember, neither my dad or me spoke or ate much at the party. We reached home late, and hit the bed soon after. We've never talked about it ever, I guess that's what happens when you watch something so terrifying up so close.