Collision on Market at Octavia

Looking northeast on Market from before the south corner of Market and Octavia.

http://www.sfbike.org/?octavia
http://www.phrank.com/mao/#4

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• sanfrancisco
• bike
• bicycle
• bicycling
• cycling
• market
• octavia

[fotograh]

IDIOT DRIVER needs more driver's ED./traning classtime.

[72Larsson]

The car makes an right turn thats not leagal just check the sign!

[tylertyler82]

this intersection always makes me nervous when biking through.. it's a bike lane adjacent to a FREEWAY for christ sake

[albertx46]

its kinda strange cos it seems to be a no-right-turn intersection. so the driver broke the law?

[mattgarron]

I'm with meltpotato. Also, from the Bike Rider's perspective, it would not be immediately clear that the car is turning right but might appear as just swirving. You can't just completely brake everytime someone appears to be swirving into you because that's every couple minutes. To me, it looks like the Bike Rider is moving to the right to avoid getting hit by the swirve and not expecting a full-on obviously illegal right turn.

[meltpotato]

huh? that's sadly not how bikes work. there was not time for the guy to stop. if he was using hand brakes, he would surely have indo'ed right into that car. the safest option in this case would be to lace alongside the car until you can hop out- not stopping. i go through this intersection in every direction, every day.

[poserfish]

How did sfbikeorg happen to catch this on video? And why just the few seconds of the actual collision??

[glisteningtiles]

The driver is obviously at fault, (s)he's a dangerous, careless scumbag. That said... this would not necessarily have happened to someone driving a regular bike with brakes. The rider notices the fiend way before slamming into their car; he can't avoid the accident (which he's in no way responsible for) only because he can't decelerate/stop fast enough. RIGHT, HIPSTER, ALIVE: choose two.

[roadmonitoroz]

Ouch ! The poor cyclist. Amazing how the person did a turn down a one way street the wrong way. I've seen that here too. (too many times). Probably tourists or on their mobile phone not paying attention.

[indusrtial]

What are you talking about?