Sometimes, we watch videos such as this one and think that things could have easily been different. However, almost any rider knows that out there in the street, situations are so much different.
If fact, you'll be surprised to learn that you figured out how to avoid the crash after it already happened. And if you're also true to yourselves, you'll admit that when riding in the street, there's no place for second thoughts.
Decisions, good and bad, alike are taken in split seconds, and it's only rarely when a course of action can be altered after the initial move.
Now, could the rider have exercised even more, paranoid caution as he saw the van slowly creeping into the junction? Maybe he could, but this fact alone it not enough to justify the van driver's error. Too bad that riders always come off worst after such encounters...
Decisions, good and bad, alike are taken in split seconds, and it's only rarely when a course of action can be altered after the initial move.
Now, could the rider have exercised even more, paranoid caution as he saw the van slowly creeping into the junction? Maybe he could, but this fact alone it not enough to justify the van driver's error. Too bad that riders always come off worst after such encounters...