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A motorbike rider almost met disaster when a driver made a last-second U-turn
He was travelling down a road at 103km/h, three km/h over the speed limit
Footage shows the moment he rounded a slight bend in the road to see the car
He managed to reflexively swerve and avoid catastrophe

By Brittany Chain For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 21:41 EST, 5 December 2018 | Updated: 22:01 EST, 5 December 2018

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A biker has narrowly avoided disaster after a car driver made a U-turn into his path on a rural road.

The motorcyclist was travelling down a road in Kinglake, northeast of Melbourne, at 103km/h, three kilometres over the speed limit.

Footage shows the rider rounding a slight bend in the road as a driver pulls out from a stopped position in front of a stationary car and attempts to perform a U-turn.

The U-turn was legal as there were no double lines on the road, but the car was all but invisible to the motorcyclist until a split second before the hair-raising near collision.

The rider shared his lucky escape on a Reddit forum, saying he didn't want to brake suddenly due to a lack of awareness of what was behind him.

'Urgent braking could really put me in a bad spot between two vehicles and I would have had no escape route. It happened right after a fast corner,' he said.

'So I chopped the throttle, found an escape route then hoped the other driver would notice me and stop moving.'

'He didn't, and that was when I swerved to get to my planned escape route - a ditch is a lot better to me than a stationary vehicle.'

The motorcyclist was travelling down a road in Kinglake, Victoria, at 103km/h, three km/h over the speed limit

A biker has narrowly avoided disaster after a driver made a last minute U-turn on a rural road

'I didn't look at the vehicle at all, just in case I fixated into it. Lucky I swerved in time. I slowed down and looked into the mirrors to make sure that he was ok, before moving on and not thinking about it until I came back home.'

He also said he hadn't spoken of the incident or shared the footage with any of his family or friends in order to avoid anybody worrying about him while he was riding.

But he wanted to share the footage with other motorcyclists as a precaution.

He admitted he could have been more cautious coming around the bend and checked his mirrors more often in order to be more prepared.