Can't yield to something you never see. Idiots that fly on bikes or cars like this on public roads are asking to die, hell they are begging for it. Whatever funds this maniac on this bike had should go to the victims family.
Exactly. Take your bike out to the alkali flats and kill yourself for all I care. But when you are on a public thoroughfare, act like a responsible citizen.
In this one horrific instance, the rider deserves the lion's share of the blame.
That does not account for the vast number of situations in which the onus is on the auto operator, nor does it justify the sweeping conclusions at the end of the article which would give the reader the impression that all motorcyclists are some sort of crazed kamikazes, out to inflict fiery death on the motoring population.
The favorable horsepower to weight ratio posessed by most motorcycles gives the motorcyclist the ability to 'power out' of an accident before it happens, a valid and often effective evasive technique, and one which has kept me out of the hospital more than once. Remove that, and the kill rate will go up, not down.
So who decides how much is too much? Whether we be discussing the engine displacement of motorcycles or the amount of fat in a person's diet, it should be up to the individual.