So I was in a traffic jam just then and as it turns out it appears a motorcyclist was injured. Ambos were there to scrape him off the road. It was a straight bit of road, but always congested. I'd put money on the rider filtering through traffic and coming up against a car changing lanes.
Instead of wondering if the person was OK, the first thought I had was it served him right. Am I a bad person for having no sympathy?
I felt bad after thinking about it but after coming across so many self entitled riders on the roads who filter when highways are at 100km/h, I don't know. They are called temporary Australians for a reason.
Hopefully the guy is OK and maybe this'll be a lesson of why filtering may be a bad idea, despite it being supposedly legal.
Instead of wondering if the person was OK, the first thought I had was it served him right. Am I a bad person for having no sympathy?
I felt bad after thinking about it but after coming across so many self entitled riders on the roads who filter when highways are at 100km/h, I don't know. They are called temporary Australians for a reason.
Hopefully the guy is OK and maybe this'll be a lesson of why filtering may be a bad idea, despite it being supposedly legal.
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I've noticed it happening quite a lot lately. Not sure if it's a coincidence or if I'm just noticing it more after watching a traffic accident TV show a few weeks back.
For WA, the Road Safety Commission says:
"Lane splitting/filtering is an unsafe practice which usually contravenes the road rules. While the Australian Road Rules and WA Road Traffic Code 2000 do not explicitly ban lane splitting/filtering, they do prohibit the practice by virtue of the fact that a number of other rules may be and are regularly contravened during the manoeuvres, such as not signalling before a lane change, riding with the wheels on the lane line, crossing continuous lane lines, safe overtaking and so on."
On TV, someone over in the Eastern states said they were allowed to do it, as long as all other traffic was stationary and they were going less than 30kph.
So many motorcyclists are riding through moving traffic and/or doing speeds greater than 30kph. It's those that do the wrong thing that give the others a bad name (much like everything else, I guess).
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