Do Drivers of Larger Vehicles even care if Motorcyclists run into Them?

A motorcyclist on a Yamaha R6 suffered fatal injuries last Friday night when the driver of a maroon Jeep Grand Cherokee suddenly pulled out of a Wal-Mart parking lot right in front of him, apparently heedless of the danger of being struck by the much lighter and smaller motorcycle.

The biker swerved to try and avoid striking the much larger Jeep Grand Cherokee. In his attempt to avoid a collision with another vehicle, he struck a curb, was thrown from his motorcycle, and died at the scene of the accident. The accident occurred on Park Row slightly east of Barker Cypress Road in Houston.

A large proportion of motorcycle accidents involving serious and fatal injuries involve larger vehicles (passenger cars, vans, SUVs, pickup trucks, and 18-wheelers) negligently pulling out suddenly in front of the biker and violating their right of way. The biker doesn’t always have time to avoid an accident. Either he strikes the large behemoth of a vehicle that has pulled out in front of him, or he takes sudden evasive action to avoid that crash and strikes something else instead.

Studies show that drivers of larger vehicles regularly give bikers less room and time at turns and intersections. Even when they consciously notice the smaller vehicles, drivers of larger vehicles tend to disregard motorcycles and pull out in front of them. In many of these catastrophic collisions, a motorcycle helmet offers little protection to the rider otherwise exposed to all the impact forces of a serious crash.

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