Who cares if the motorcyclist was wrong. That doesn’t give the driver of the car permission to try to use lethal force to stop him.

Ah, so you did get it.

Wait you are actually blaming the motorcyclist? So if you were jaywalking on a busy street and I swerved to hit you, youd got what you deserved? Seriously?

What makes you think old fart will hesitate in turning the wheel a bit more. Thr distance to pass was safe, this has nothing to do with it. Yeah it was illegal to pasd on double yellow. Either way there was no traffic ahead, therefore the pass was not unsafe, illegal yes. What the man in the vehicle did was done on…

I ride motorcycles and have for over 20 years now. Have I passed people on a double yellow before when I was younger? Absolutely. Do I do it anymore? No way. Is it always wrong? Yes, for at least two reasons: (1) it means you are out of driver expectation (same as bicyclists running stop signs even when it’s “safe” -…

The biggest problem I have with a) is that half of the reason for the rules of the road is that it gives you a reasonable expectation of the behavior of other drivers. You should always be aware of your surroundings on the road, but it helps when people aren’t pulling out surprises on you. As for b), there are some…

Finally, a side observation - I would say the motorcyclist’s main error in this situation was passing so closely. More room and he would have had time to react (swerve and/or pin it). I’m not sure if the motivation there was not being too far over seeing as it’s a DY or if maybe he was being a little aggressive…

To all of you saying passing on the DY is automatically Bad - stop. Just stop.

a) You probably don’t ride. Believe me, there are plenty of places that are unsafe for a car to pass where it’s no problem for a bike (either due to the bike being able to do the pass or simply because of things like better sightlines due to…