Bike Accidents and how to react before impact

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Jman

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I just read about Powerflow Justin's accident and was wondering, if someone who has done it can assist:
Why is it that bikers always fly over the cars in accidents, or most of the times, and not go straight forward, into the car, of how is it that your knees not get taken off.  If you can remember, what did you do just before you hit the car, did you start standing up, or jump, or just sat there, fold you're arms before your face and scream, brake hard, etc?
It could assist someone else, if we know what to do just before impact (don't know if I can think that fast), because it seems going over is better that smacking into.

I would think the reason you go over, is that you are braking, you're bike is nose diving, so when you hit the car with the front wheel, youre bike becomes a pendulim and flips you up and over?  

 
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