An excellent topic with a very good example.
Let me tell you something which I have observed in many years of driving on the roads of Islamabad/Rawalpindi/Lahore/GT-Road and a bit in Karachi.
If you drive the car, you'll always get the feeling that bikers have no respect for the road laws. If you ride the bike, you'll always get the feeling that vehicle drivers are bullying the bikers on the road.
On the GT Road (Islamabad to Lahore), you'll experience the same between LTV (Light Transport Vehicles) and HTV (Heavy Transport Vehicles); and when towns come along, your experience will be almost same between pedestrians and traffic in general.
On the busy interchanges near markets of Rawalpindi / Lahore, you'll experience the same between pedestrians and bikes/cars/wagons.
I own Suzuki GS-150 bike, a relatively new corolla and old Suzuki Swift and I drive them all on daily basis, both cars and a bike. When on bike, I often feel that some car drivers aren't fair to me and I get angry. When on the car, I often get angry that bikers are crazy.
In my opinion, none of drivers (owners of bikes, LTV, HTV, etc) are driving as per law and none of them are absolute wrong; including me.
There are many threads on PakWheels which always talk about one aspect of the situation and nobody wants to observe the other side of the incident.
There are just 3 reasons as per my experience and observation for such incidents on the daily basis.
- Slow and Fast traffic mixes up without respecting the lane (sometimes bikers drive on right-most-lane and sometimes car owners drive in left-most-lane) just to get out of rush-hour.
- There is no respect for the law. Even on the occasion of collision, police wardens suggest to neonate without involving them. Astonishing, majority of cases are solved this way without identifying the true culprit and holding them responsible in the court of law.
- Police Wardens do nothing, not even using their wireless to communicate in their loop in case of 'Hit And Run', specially if runner is a biker or owner of luxury / expensive car/jeep.
When these stories build up and culprit is not punished, people gradually loose respect for road laws.
If somebody hit you from the back, the driver of rare vehicle is held responsible. I guess, not many people know that it is NOT always true. If you're driving on the Fast Lane (often Right-Most) and apply pressure break and somebody hit you from the back, then you'll hold responsible (It is true for Highways, Motorways and GT-Road as well).
Nobody is perfect, unless you're willing to observe and understand the situation of other drivers, don't blame them. Don't cry and don't yell or simply put, don't create scene on the road; However people will still do it regardless and this is what I'm seeing in the photo of OP.