I'm a motorcyclist, and I appreciate the 'matter of fact' style that you wrote to explain (the motorcyclist's), liability. I am mostly in agreement with you up until the the part where you wrote, "He is lucky not because he himself is alive, which is a crying shame". I think you momentarily forgot your professional dignity. After all, it was you who made the choice to reveal your professional relevance to this scenario. I would like to think that your professional demeanor would have remained intact all the way thru as you wrote your opinion.

The motorcyclists driving actions after his vocally identified frustrations were indeed an illegal type of moving violation, but I would like to think he's deserving of a lawful prosecution from anyone like yourself involved with the law in a professional sense, and not being cheerlead to a premature death because he was revealed to having a prior moment of frustration/road rage/irritability. We all have them, and that was a 'snapshot' of his life, not an all-encompasing description of who he is.

He fucked up, and as a biker I cringed. How he could just take off seemingly trusting that the white car would just remain there without moving while he accelerated so quickly thru such a tight space just seems to go against common sense.

You also remarked that his rage and anger was 'inexplicable'. Please don't misconstrue the following as an excuse for his stated traffic objections, but rather as a plausible supposition for his audible irritable phrasing. When you're riding a motorcycle, often the overwhelming instances of car driver mindlessness will promote an exaggerated sense of righteousness as it applies to the motorcyclists viewpoint on who's the more attentive driver, the 'cager' (slang for car drivers), or the biker. When riding, you constantly are barraged with instances of inattentiveness from those 'cagers'. Cell phone use, lane drifting, non-use of turn signals, all help to frustrate and heighten the defense mechanisms we must employ to ride safely out there on the roads.

Now I'm not asking for pity. I'm acknowledging that there are many riders who give the responsible ones a bad name; speeding and other reckless acts can breed resentment from the car driving public just as we have our own issues that frustrate us. I also understand that it's a price of doing business that we must factor in to choosing to be on a motorcycle when we run into our own safety concerns.

I hope I'm not coming across as being too defensive toward the biker or too critical toward your phrasing; it's just that I've been in that situation where I've encountered the 'one-too-many' instances of distracted driving by a cager, that precipitated some angry, under my breath mutterings that left me shaking my head at what I had just seen.