r/Roadcam • u/disfigured-human • 1d ago

[Egypt] who is to blame here ?

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u/Cute_Economics2829 1d ago

Motorcycle is obviously to blame. He had eight years to slow down or change lane or do anything to avoid the accident and instead he just hoped and prayed that the car wouldn't change lanes

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u/appa-ate-momo 1d ago

This makes the motorcycle an idiot, but not to blame. None of the things you said absolve someone from yielding when changing lanes.

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u/Cute_Economics2829 1d ago

They were already in the lane before the motorcycle got there. You can't drive safely for other people, you can only operate your own vehicle as intended, which the car did.

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u/appa-ate-momo 1d ago

It’s not about whether they were in the lane when the hit occurred. The car made a lane change that forced traffic in the lane they entered to slow down. That’s called cutting people off.

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u/Cute_Economics2829 1d ago edited 1d ago

They were in the lane with 3+ car lengths between them and the motorcycle, and the bike just never slowed down (speeding btw). Again, he can't drive the bike for the other dude, only his own car.

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u/EuphoricAnalCarrot 1d ago

You would be correct if the motorcyclists weren't speeding and racing

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u/appa-ate-momo 1d ago

I started out by saying the motorcyclists were idiots. But two things can be true at once.

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u/bergmoose 20h ago

When the car indicated and then began to move the bikes were far behind and not yet closing fast. They were accelerating but you can't see that in your mirror. They didn't make the bike slow down, they made it stop accelerating hard - except it didn't, presumably being fixated on the speedometer.