Saved by a Cager

[blkparade]

Hey all, hope everyone is doing okay. I am due to a cager. O.K. here's the explanation. Exiting an expressway I catch the Red light. The exit is a 3 lane. It has 2-Left turn lanes and 1-Right turn lane. No straight. I am in the Right turn lane and am the 3rd vehicle back. There are a few cars in each of the Left turn lanes. The Light goes green and everyone starts forward. I am about Three Quarters through my turn looking forward because another intersection with stopped cars comes up quickly. When I hear a crunch of metal. I literally for a split second take stock of myself and realize I am still up on two and finishing my turn. As I look in my mirrors I see two cars sitting in the roadway, the conclusion of one cager blowing the light and striking one of the cars turning left. My point behind the entire story if it weren't for the car turning left, the Jack@$$ who blew the light had me dead in his sights. Was kinda of a surreal moment. Not sure I could of done anything differently. I try to analyze what happened and I looked left before my turn even though I had a green light. My view left was obstructed by the cars turning left, but I still try think of what I should of done differently and I feel I did it right for the most part but who knows. I do know I am a fortunate person. I realize it doesn't compare to those of you who have crashed but that was my Ohhh S%#t moment to date with only 2 months on a Motorcycle in my life.
As a side note, I'm not trippin from this. I am not sure if that should concern me or that's a good thing. I learned a little something from it and hopefully that is what I should remember.

[wrightme43]

blocker car saves the day. LOL good deal for you.

[Jman]

Glad you had someone up there looking out for you!

[cv_rider]

We've all seen the YouTubes of people blowing reds and wiping someone out, it hits a bit closer to home when its happening to one of Our Gang here. That gives me the heebie-jeebies. I sometimes lane split through lines of stopped cars at intersections, so I can get ahead of the crowd when the light is green. This type of thing is one of my main worries about that.

[AJ_rider]

Glad you're okay Blk! I'm not sure what you could've done differently...

[jmerch44]

it's a good thing you weren't turning left! glad your alright. keep ridin'.

[08fz6]

would agree i dont think there really is anything diff that you could do....as far as the guy running the light hopefully he loses his license.....if it is an area that is that busy should have been paying attention much more, for a light to turn green he had a red for a few secs.... thats special... one reason i wait a few secs before i take off

[abraxas]

Damn ... your angel put some hours in today ....

Most likely there was nothing you could have done. That's how fast it happens though, to me all you can do is try stop the panic. Act fast and natural ...

[lattin25]

Glad you got the cager as your lead blocker! Well imo i dont think you could have done anything differently. I almost witnessed a head on the other day with something similar to this. A very large intersection with turn lanes across the whole thing. Turn lanes went green and a car that was going straight took off through the red. If the driver who was turning wasn't paying attention they would have had a nasty crash. I always keep an eye on every car I can when I'm entering an intersection, never know if someone is going to mistake the turn green for the straight green.

[lonesoldier84]

madness.

i had a somewhat similar moment in a car myself once. car gets hit and starts coming directly at us at a high speed as its path was altered by the collision....but it hits a massive street pole that fortunately happened to be in front of us that we didnt see until the car hit it because our focus was on the car. on a bike like that it would have been X 1000 no doubt. madness.

great to hear ur ok though. that stuff gives everyone the "heeby jeebies" cuz it is out of ur control.