On my morning commute into work I was coming up to a set of traffic lights which had a sharp 90 degree turn to the right immediately on exit from the lights.

About 50 meters before the lights I was passed by a learner on a small motorcycle. A little too fast for the weather conditions, it had been raining and the road was still wet. ‘Steer clear of him’ I thought to myself. As I approached the lights they changed to green. There was a car in front of me who increased speed to 10-15 mph. As the learner turned to exit the lights he leaned over too far and went down and slid across the road in front of the car in front of me & the
car immediately stopped.

As I was already in the turn, I broke hard, and down I went landing on my back, but by the time I hit the road my Helite vest had already inflated so I had a soft landing.

I slid down the road for a few metres, but was OK! The vest showed a couple of scuffs, but nothing serious. The vest prevented me from getting badly bruised on my shoulder.