the use of a "turn signal" when actuated as the wheels of the auto are being re directed, is not in any way a release of the driver from liability of anything occurring in a lane change... signal.... look.... and then change lanes, not turn on signal and change lanes at that moment... granted the bike rider was being dumb..and luckily he had fast reactions... but blind spotting himself, is never a good thing... I'm always looking to see if I can see a drivers eyes in their rearview mirror, when Im doing "maneuvers" such as this.
every state has rulings on turn signal distances, prior to a "movement", see it all the time watching how many people get pulled over for Improper lane change/turn, etc., on Live PD, and end up in jail for the silly concealed weapon/mega dope/open container/nobody ever has a drivers license/ bad day at the office psycho thing...
bad moves on both, car driver did not signal in advance of change, within a reasonable distance traveled. the vid shows it... hard to contest it didn't occur.
But then again, watching it... biker boy never used a signal at all during his lane change... and his brake light coincides with the second flash on the cars turn signal, like 20 feet from the time it first flashed...
we can all agree, he was lucky... bet the guy filming this was glad he didn't run the dude over...
Having "driven thru" a 3 lane "crash" last season, between the spinning cars, at 70 mph, and debris flying, cars both spinning across 3 lanes... and everything appeared in slow motion as it occured... amazing just how fast the mind can send signals to every muscle, and make it seem so unreal, that I could navigate between all that, from left to right, back again, and back to the right side of the road without incident, while in my rearview I watched at least a dozen more cars crash spectacularly, and shut the road down... I can say things like this make you kiss the ground, the wife, the bike, and go cool out sitting in a park for an hour... reflecting on how you could have been ... dead.
One guy in a car, that drove the berm around it all, after his crash, came up to me while I was taking pics on my phone cam, and rolled his window down, and told me "you are ONE LUCKY MUTHA******...I watched you not get killed....."