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From: ehrhart@sri-spam.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Subject: lane splitting
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Date: Fri, 23-May-86 03:44:54 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 23 03:44:54 1986
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Keywords: legal ramifications

This news group has been much to quiet lately !! And seeing as
those it's my favorite I thougth I'd try to breath some life into
it regarding the topic of lane splitting.

In California, lane splitting is as I understand it, is not illegal.
But what are the legal ramifications if you have an accident while 
splitting lanes ? Imagine this scenario and what you would do:

There you are cruising down a three lane highway at Friday afternoon
at 5:00 PM on your way to the Honda dealer to put a down payment on
a 1985 Nighthawk 700s. You are going about 20-25 MPH splitting lanes
between traffic moving about 15 MPH. All of a sudden a guy in an out
of state $300 beater car changes lanes right in front of you. You
crash into his driver's side door, carroming off and going down. You
land on your butt, the bike's got a couple of broke turn signals and
handlebars bent a bit from landing on one side. Damage to the car is
almost unnegligable.

Now for the toughie for all you experts out there. Who is at fault ?

If this sound like a made up story, it probably isn't.

Tim Ehrhart		415-859-5842