The last time I T-boned a truck on a motorcycle, I avoided injury by standing on the pegs immediately before impact and being thrown *over* the vehicle.
Seemed intuitively obvious at the time.
Clearing a vehicle that turns in front of a motorcyclist depends heavily upon the shape and height of the offending vehicle. One wouldn't clear a box-shaped delivery van the same way they might clear a low-slung sportscar...
~ Blue Jays ~