wow what a prick, bikes are allowed to do this in standstill traffic (at least in australia).

Same here in the USA, but some people can't stand that someone else has a right to do something they can't.
I hope there's prosecution, that's double attempted murder if you ask me.
(..and no, I don't ride a bike)

Moving this video to mintbbb's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

You guys seem to be assuming the trucker deliberately opened his door to take out the biker. It looks to me like the trucker was getting out of his truck. Seriously, who would stick his arm out of the cab of his vehicle into the path of a motor vehicle travelling at high speed. His only mistake was not checking his mirror to see if some crazy-assed biker was flying up from behind between two closely spaced lines of traffic at an excessive speed. I think I'll go with the OP's comment of "Karma".

In the U.S., lane-splitting is not legal in most states but tolerated in many. Laws governing motorcycles vary from state to state.

Any human being has inherited the right through incarnation to anything they will and to assume the responsibility of their actions.


"Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it."
-H. L. Mencken

Completely agree. Looks very much to me like he is just starting to move out of the truck when this happens.

@newtboy your telling me he bares NO responsibility for doing something that at best dramatically increases the chances of an accident?

It looked to me like the trucker was trying to stop the bike from passing, like I've seen many cars do when a bike is coming from behind. I think it was an instance of "objects in mirror are closer than they appear" at best, and he thought he would have the door open in time for the bike to stop so he could yell at them, but miss timed it and hit them instead. That's giving him the benefit of a doubt that he wasn't trying to hit them. I've seen this kind of behavior multiple times in the bay area where lane splitting is totally legal. Some people just can't stand that someone else has an advantage and want to play cop, I've seen them drive down the line between lanes to block bikes from passing, once I saw someone do that to a motorcycle cop, it didn't go so well for them.
I can't think of another logical explanation for the truck to be opening it's door in moving traffic, can you?
I think the biker was being unsafe passing so fast in moving traffic, but it depends on what the law is where this happened. If that's legal there, 100% truckers fault. If not, shared responsibility, maybe 20%biker-80%trucker+-, because a bike passing is reasonably foreseeable, a moving truck opening it's door in traffic is not.