Biker Wiped Out And Left Clinging To Back Of Car In Scary Crash

A biker on a Los Angeles freeway was left riding on the back of a moving car after a driver moved into the high occupancy lane without looking

Matt Robinson

Updated: 23 May 2017

This scary incident happened on a Los Angeles freeway, when a Toyota Camry driver decided to perform an utterly stupid lane change.

He’s seen illegally crossing a solid yellow line into the high-occupancy vehicle lane - moving over two lanes in the process - right into the path of the biker. There’s no time to stop, so the biker ploughs into the back of the Toyota, at which point he dismounts and ends up clinging to the boot of the car.

Incredibly, the Toyota driver doesn’t pull up immediately: he comes to a halt slowly, and only after the biker hits the rear windscreen several times while shouting for him to stop. Once the biker has a chance to make his feelings known to the driver - who doesn’t seem terribly bothered by the unfortunate proceedings - we see a phone sitting on the man’s lap.

Does that have something to do with his inattentive driving style, perhaps?

Via Reddit Roadcam

Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.

Comments

He did it first

Customer: “I want a car with human-land-pad.”
Toyota: “Say no more.”

I think the kid was also shocked(maybe) people react differentely in high stress situations. But it was good that he stopped slowly, if he would have slammed his brakes the biker would have flown over the car.

My thoughts exactly

You can see he’s got a phone on his lap - he was probably using it. Complete look of disbelief in the kids face.

The dude doesn’t look entirely sober either…

“You could save someone’s life”
No. You could fking kill someone because you are unable to drive a car safely.

So he’s using his phone, moving over 2 lanes without stopping in between and cut of the BMW driver behind him (seeing the brake lights lighting up on the BMW)…. must think he’s on the world on his own…. I hope the guy on the motorbike is doing fine, as well as his bike.