Any guesses as to the riders speed? It didn't seem excessive to me. He didn't appear to be wearing full gear but I'm not sure if that would be a big factor regarding injuries. He seemed to get about ten feet of air so the sudden change in direction being deflected from the car, a spin and ending up with the drop.
Distracted driving??? You don't have to be holding the phone, just involved in a deep conversation.
Rider first comes into view at the right side of the video frame very close to 7 seconds into the video. At 8 seconds into the video, the rider's front wheel is very close to crossing the first streetcar track, and scaling from the video image, the bike has covered around 8 times its own length (which is about 7 feet) in that second, so 56 feet per second. Scaling from the white SUV (appears to be a Nissan Rogue), which we will presume to be around 15 feet long, there's around four and a half SUV-lengths from the right edge of the video frame to that first streetcar track, so 67 feet, less a little bit because at the 7 second mark, the bike is partly into the video frame. A fair estimate is 60 feet per second. That is about 66 km/h.
That's not a blistering pace, but it's too fast for conditions when there is a visible potential left-turner coming from the other direction. There is no discernible braking on the part of the rider.
Note the "40 begins" speed limit sign just on the other side of the intersection. I think it's a 50 zone on the approach to the intersection.
When this happened to me, years ago, my initial speed was around 60 km/h but the moment the car started turning I knew I was going to hit it. I hit the car with the front wheel locked, the rear wheel in the air, and in the process of low-siding. I probably knocked the impact speed down to 20 km/h. It did some damage to the bike, but I rode it away from the scene, fixed it and still have it to this day.
