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Old 10-14-2011, 12:09 PM   #1 (permalink)
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My first bicycle/car "incident" in many years on the weekend

Sad to say I had an "incident" with a car on the weekend - first one in years and years. I was on my junk town bike:



( http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...-bike-300.html )

The incident was your basic "getting cut off by an overtaking car making a right turn" situation. No contact or anything. I just had to take evasive action and did some yelling.

The driver must have seen me, since she gave me a comfortably wide berth as she was overtaking. But then made her turn before her car's back wheel was even past me!

I suppose I could have been occupying my entire lane, as the road leading up to the intersection is pretty narrow. But I wasn't. Fortunately, vehicles move pretty slowly through this area.

My afterthought: I should have at least got her license plate number to report her to the police.

Adrenaline, however, just made me want to yell at her instead of thinking of the bigger picture.

Fortunately her sunroof was open, so I'm quite sure she at least heard me.

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