Motorcyclist kicks car and triggers chain-reaction crash in apparent road-rage video

[haele]

68. If the driver was going at speed (min 65 MPH) in the HOV lane - a swerve to the right

to avoid the motorcycle would send the rear end of the car as equally violently to the left, no matter how good his or her control of the car was.
The weight of the back end of a front-wheel drive vehicle along with the fact that there is no "turn" to the rear wheels will "fishtail" to the left as the driver yanks the steering wheel to the right due to the instinct to avoid another vehicle. That's what I saw in the video.

Same physics at work behind the reason driving instructors tell you that when you start spinning out and losing control because of speed, you turn *into the spin* to straighten out. It's also similar to why when driving with a trailer on a hitch, you turn opposite to the way the trailer needs to turn to back in.

I would need to see the entire episode to attempt to consider fault. While the motorcyclist is far more vulnerable because of his or her lack of protection, that doesn't mean the driver would automatically be entirely at fault in this incidence.

I will admit a bit of bias - two days ago, an idiot rider who was in way too much of a hurry was swerving and splitting lanes during rush hour traffic, and we nearly hit him while responsibly changing lanes (turn signals, looking around, and waiting until there was an opening) after he swerved across two lanes and around the car that was letting us in to split the lanes we were crossing - at 80+ MPH or so. And then he flipped us off after passing us - after Laz swerved back into our lane not to hit him when he suddenly appeared next to my window and swerved into the opening we were in the process of going to.
And that wasn't the first time we had to wait and let a lane-splitter pass us at high speed before we moved into a lane on the freeway.

Haele