I was cut off while lane splitting and CHP concluded I was at fault for the collision

I am sharing my story so that other riders can hopefully benefit from my experience. A few months ago I was involved in a collision between my motorcycle and a car. I was driving on the freeway in California (where lane splitting is legal) during my morning commute. I was splitting between lanes 1 and 2 because traffic was heavy and slow (moving about 5-10 mph). I was traveling at about 10-15 mph. Two other motorcycles were splitting ahead of me (less than a minute/mile away). I mention this because having other riders splitting ahead of me means that drivers ahead of me may have been alerted to the fact that motorcyclists are lane splitting. Suddenly, a car in the left lane decides she wants to switch to the lane to her right. Unfortunately, I happened to be in between her lane and the lane to her right. Either she didn't see me or didn't care that I was there and she cut me off with no time to react (less than a second). I hit the right front quarter panel of her car and my bike went down. I was thrown off and tumbled a bit. Fortunately no one hit me after I fell. I was taken to the hospital with a broken collarbone and ribs. CHP (California Highway Patrol) came and talked to me, the driver, and some witnesses and in the accident report concluded that I was solely at fault for "driving too fast" even though no one claimed I was going too fast and no one questioned my speed of 10-15 mph. From what I can tell, it wouldn't have mattered if I was going 1 mph--since I hit the car, I was at fault. It made me wonder if CHP would've reached the same conclusion had I been in the number 2 lane and not splitting. Surely, there should be incentive for drivers to take care and look before changing lanes. But the result of this accident report is that I take all the blame effectively punishing me for doing something legal--lane splitting. What am I supposed to take away from this? Don't lane split when it's legal? Expect to be liable for all accidents that I'm involved with while lane splitting? The takeaway from the 25-year old driver (with no insurance by the way) is that she can switch lanes into a motorcyclist whenever she wants as long as the rider is lane splitting. And why not. She doesn't have to worry about getting caught without insurance (no citation from CHP) and she didn't get hurt at all. She just drove away without a care in the world. As for me, I've spent 8 weeks recovering from surgery and dealing with insurance. And I'm asking myself, how can this be right? What could I possibly have done differently aside from not lane split? Doesn't this effectively make lane splitting (de facto) illegal? First thing I did after the accident was buy a camcorder. You should too. via /r/motorcycles https://www.reddit.com/r/motorcycles/comments/eeh4zx/i_was_cut_off_while_lane_splitting_and_chp/?utm_source=ifttt