Singapore-registered car sends motorcyclist flying while changing lanes at JB checkpoint

A motorcyclist was sent flying after he collided with a Singapore-registered Mercedes that was changing lanes at the Johor Bahru Checkpoint in Malaysia, according to a video uploaded to the SG Road Vigilante Facebook page on Monday (Aug 10).

In the video, the car can be seen in a snaking queue towards the checkpoint, held up amid slow traffic.

As a motorcyclist drives past on the left, the Mercedes driver appears to make a decision to cut into the lane on the left, possibly to skip the queue.

However, his sharp manoeuvre results in catastrophe as he drives into the path of a different motorcyclist, causing the latter to collide with the left side of his vehicle.

The motorcyclist is sent flying forward as his bike is thrown towards the road divider, almost flipping over completely before it lands.

@asiaone A Singapore-registered Mercedes appeared to cut into a lane at the Johor Bahru Checkpoint before colliding with a motorcyclist, sending him flying onto the road. #sgnews #Singapore #Malaysia #Road #Accident ♬ original sound - AsiaOne

Unable to get to his feet, the biker appears to struggle beneath his motorcycle. The driver of the Mercedes then exits his vehicle and approaches the biker to help as the video ends.

While some users questioned if the motorcyclist was going too fast, other comments expressed anger towards the Mercedes driver for attempting the lane change to begin with.

Said one: "Do not drive to checkpoint to queue if you don't have the patience to wait… [jumping] queue will only give you more problems."

Another commented: "If you have no patience and want to [jump] queue, then you better stay at home!"

A user also highlighted the possible futility of the Mercedes driver's actions, claiming that he would not have been able to re-enter the queue after leaving it.

"At the spot he [jumped] queue no cars ahead of him would ever give way… as this is a single car lane," the user explained, adding that the drivers in queue would have likely waited around three hours to get to that point.

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