Who At Fault ?

50/50 This is all just opinions going around in circles, only the rider (you) and the car driver know the true detail of what happened.
For you to be filtering in a potentially dangerous area such as road works and approaching a junction where danger such as this can occur, you must accept some of the blame as should the car driver, in my opinion!
Suggest you and the car driver does an advanced rider/driver course. IAM for example, you can't beat it.

 

50/50 This is all just opinions going around in circles, only the rider (you) and the car driver know the true detail of what happened.
For you to be filtering in a potentially dangerous area such as road works and approaching a junction where danger such as this can occur, you must accept some of the blame as should the car driver, in my opinion!
Suggest you and the car driver does an advanced rider/driver course. IAM for example, you can't beat it.

 

I am an IAM National observer and this came up when talking to one of our examiners (serving Police motorcyclist). Totally the drivers fault, filtering is legal but at no more than 15 mph more than the traffic around you that you are filtering through. The car emerging from a side road must make sure the road is clear to make the manouvre safely. She obviously didn't , the fact she was coming out through a line of stationary traffic is immaterial, the onus was on her to make sure the way was clear. That's not to say that the rider doesn't have to keep his eyes open and watch out for side turnings any way. one of the most important things we teach is observation, sadly lacking in most associates we have, easy to put right though. just takes practise. We aim to prevent accidents happening in the first place which saves the hassle of this type of thing happening. Doing the IAM or ROSPA course is the best £149 pounds I ever spent, which is why I have gone on to be an observer and pass on my knowledge to others. Sorry about the shameless plug, (not )

 

Driver's fault unless you were doing something stupid. When you join onto someone else's right of way, you have a responsibility to ensure that way is clear - particularly if there are other hazards present. Unfortunately, as I discovered a while ago, the legal system will screw the motorcyclist if it can (probably just because we are not the norm and that fries their brains).