Why are your brakes are more important than your engine?

Because, idiots happen.

 

Hope that guy signed his organ donor card....

 

The car driver who pulled into the fast lane without signaling?
That is a section of the Autobahn where the speed limit is quite high (as in none). The motorcyclist was operating his vehicle appropriately. The auto driver was not.

Then again, everyone should have a signed organ donor card. Mom co-signed mine (at my request) the day I got my license.

 

If I remember right, on the drivers test one of the rules is "clear to the rear" before you turn into the left lane. That and I think you can't pass on the right either. What ever the case, emergency braking lifter the back of the bike up at that speed, you can tell by the camera angle and that little jar of the camera. I am sure they had to change their shorts when they stopped. I lived in Germany in 1989 and had a FZ600, saw a single headlight coming up on me in my fast lane. Gave them room enough on the left to pass me. They went by me so fast the wind blew me out of my lane and I was close to red line in top great at the time. Very humbling memory.

 

You do realize that organs are harvested before you are dead, right? Organs from a dead body are useless, except for medical college practice/training, and normally that is for whole bodies (cadavers) only.

 

I bet that guys seat has an extra wrinkle in it!

 

he saw three cars close to each other, he saw one car pass the slower car. did he let off the gas when the first car passed? no. he assumed the other car saw him and was still on the gas when it changed lanes.
would you have let up when the first car pulled over knowing the other car was right there?

 

There is a window of opportunity, depending on the organ. For example, corneas are viable for transplant for several days. Vital organs can be kept viable if life support measures can be initated soon after the accident, even if the victim would otherwise be considered to be dead (due to brain-stem damage for example).

Slightly off topic (sort of):
The late Dr. John Hinds has several videos in which he dramatically illustrates how advances in trauma response have enabled vastly improved survival rates in motorcycling accidents. While these are specific to track conditions, there has been a worldwide push to add these methods to how street accidents are responded to.



I don't think that it's in this video, but there is one case he uses where a racer's organs were later used for transplant even though he was not able to be revived. Time is the key.


[EDIT] I embeddd the original video instead of that crap pirated one I had earlier.