Is It the Shockwave of Two Cars Crashing That Sends This Biker to the Ground?

With dashcams being even more ubiquitous than a sober head inside Russian cars, there is no shortage of material for our production. And despite what you might think, it wouldn't become repetitive anytime soon. We completely trust the Russian drivers to continuously come up with new ways of surprising and entertaining us.

It almost seems like instead of attending some driving classes, most of them learn how to behave in traffic at the circus. Not only do they take the "rules are there to be broken" idiom way too seriously, but they often show no consideration whatsoever for their own or everybody else's life. They go on the road as if they had "God Mode" activated and the exit to the next level was closing fast. There's no time to look right or left, only forward.

This time, however, the actual crash isn't the main talking point. It's a classic case of one car accelerating to catch a green light, only for it to turn yellow and then green without the driver considering to brake. Combine that with the fact that the other car had a rolling start for its green light and a bus on its right that blocked the view towards the approaching torpedo, and you've got yourself a spectacular accident. Luckily, the one car that suffers the most is the speedster, but there's one collateral victim as well.

The motorcycle rider is probably thanking the heavens it wasn't him there instead of that Renault Duster (which is actually a Dacia, but Russians don't like the idea of driving Romanian cars). However, even he managed to stay at least 20 feet from where it all happened, that still didn't keep him from falling over. Why? I was obviously joking about the shockwave in the title, but something did knock him over. What was it?

It was him panicking and slamming (can you really do that on a motorcycle?) that front brake like there was no tomorrow - or those 20-plus feet we were talking about earlier. With his speed, he had plenty of time to stop safely, but he chose the shortest braking distance instead of a more dignifying maneuver.

Laugh all you want, you have every reason to, but the truth is that even though he got it wrong this time, on other occasions a similar decision might save him his life. On the other hand, good thing the driver with the dashcam applied the same treatment to his brakes. Otherwise, this would have ended a lot worse for the biker than anyone else involved.