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witness view photos

Sept. 8th, 2013 the weekend after being hit

I had my Wife drive her car around that corner then up into the lot, over and over in the two different lanes as I took pictures with my good camera

***            note that day that I used a 50mm F2 "fixed lens"       ***
***                   (not 'zoom' nor 'wide angle' adjustable)                   ***
***       I love this little lens, as it gives the exact same view thru      ***
***               the camera as you have with the naked eye                   ***
 ***   so if you see similar shots looking as if one is zoomed closer  ***
***     than another, its because I moved where I was standing    ***

I also took most of the shots from standing up tall, to be the same height
as the witness was in her old blue truck(a 4 door Chevy Suburban I believe)


the things my Wife complained about the most when I made her do this:

1) right or left lanes; she could not see around curve of the corner to where I would point for her to drive next to the scratch marks...mostly the raised parking lot and grassy slope is in the way, but also trees, poles, signs, and parked cars

2) right or left lanes; to make the curve(driving in it) she could only watch the road where she was driving, not look down the straightaway....and I bet that getting that big old blue truck around that curve is a lot harder to do than my Wife taking it in her Audi

3) when driving in the left lane and turning into the lot, she had to go way slower, and almost come to a complete stop before turning at all....this never exposed the side of the car until it was moving up into the lot entrance

4) when driving in the left lane she could not drive around the spot my motorcycle stopped in and pull into the spot where the white car stopped in up in the lot...cars can't turn that sharp....she could only do that coming from an angle out of the right-hand lane then coming across the left-hand lane, how it was easy and she hit every mark every time



here is a look at the map of the streets again

Google Maps overview of the accident driveways, curve, and street


from my view looking back off the map above(facing down) to how far away the witness
blue truck was as I stopped before turning north out of the lot main driveway
(1st east side entrance/exit, in the lower right of the map above)



I had my Wife drive around the curve in the left and right lanes...I was where the witness in blue truck would have seen the car(if my Wife's car was the white car that hit me)....you can't tell which lane she is in

one lane
the other lane



here are a few more photos showing how it is to see around that corner from a little farther in to it
...and you can't be looking far out down the street as you have to watch where you are driving to navigate the corner....these are taken in car from the lane the witness in the blue truck says she was in


this last one has my Wife's car hidden in the photo
this is where the white car was(in the right lane)
with my motorcycle beside it(in the left lane)


then farther around the curve showing the witness' view when the white car first hit me as it came into my lane



all the photos above were taken from different spots going into and thru that corner in areas the witness could have been driving her big old blue truck, as it would be hard to determine the exact spot she was in when exactly different parts of the accident happened for her to try and see...I do know that she was quite a ways back, so I tried to include a wide range of distances between where she could have been and where the white car hit my bike, athlo most of them I was somewhat closer then the witness could have been
...but this last shot is very close up of pulling up next to the scratches in the street as my Wife turns into the lot from the right lane(car in the same spot as the last shot above) taken from much nearer if the witness could have been around the curve and onto the straightaway(but she wouldn't have been yet)...if this were real, the truck would have been right on the car's tail, and beside me(or us, as she told it)....as there was only a few feet I traveled out of the curve on the straightaway before being hit ...so this is taken from much closer than the witness blue truck was, judging from how far away I saw her as displayed in the first photo of mine at the top of this post
this is the best we could do to get a car into the left-hand lane with the motorcycle scratches right beside it...but really the car would have to be farther over the stripe in the road back into the right-hand lane to leave a little room for the motorcycle...as like this the bike would already be under the car...and that didn't happen until almost 10 more feet down the straightaway
of course at some point the witness could have seen the white car over in the left-hand lane with me, as that is where the car hit me as it was crossing over from the right-hand lane intruding into my left-hand lane, then drove across that lane farther and ran over my motorcycle and head with its back tire, and then drove out of the left lane up into the parking lot...the witness could have just come all the way around the curve by the time the motorcycle was already knocked down by the car entering the left-hand lane, possibly only by the time later when the white car was driving over my head, or even as late as just when the car was going up into the lot leaving the left-hand lane
...but to get beside the first(deepest) scratch marks, and make the turn into the lot; the white car had to be in the right-hand lane to start with...as shown in the earlier photos in this post, the witness would not have been able to tell which lanes the bike and car were in as the bike came along side the car as we exited the curve, as witness would have been still in the curve at the absolute closest

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