Why you cagers turning left are the most dangerous to we bikers coming the other way

A bike thief. Lane-splitting, emerging from between two cars at very high speed just before reaching an intersection.

I'm not confident that you would have seen that fool coming either.

The biker died after he hit the front end of the cager turning left. The two cagers went to the hospital (probably only for the lawsuit).

The police made a statement that said they were absolutely not chasing him. At least they were not chasing him on the ground. Obviously there was that helicopter which was tracking him from the air. But no indication yet that the biker knew the helicopter was above him.

Still, the cager turned left in front of him and you saw what happened.

The most dangerous time for a biker is when a cager coming from the opposite direction turns left in an intersection and this video shows what happens.

And he was whipping thru city streets at 100mph anyway.

I rewound and played the video at 0.5x speed, several times. The bike was nowhere in sight when that car began turning, it was far back *behind* other cars. Then it shot out at insanely high speed from between two cars and into the intersection.

The bike thief wouldn't have done that stupid move if he could have seen the left-turning car ahead. HIS fault that they couldn't see him either.

OK, but that isn't what I get from this video.

I have a sensible riding posture on my bike, with my feet below my hips. I decided long ago that when my bike hits a car head-on like that, I'll jump up and go over the car.