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To: BraveMan

I almost got me a bicyclist yesterday! Coming down a road to a T. I stopped, looked for cars and almost pulled out in front of a bycyclist. I managed to stop.

I learned almost forty years that if you are on a two wheel conveyance you suddenly become invisible to all auto drivers.
Got rid of my two wheelers and went to trucks.


9 posted on 05/01/2023 7:28:40 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
I almost got me a bicyclist yesterday! Coming down a road to a T. I stopped, looked for cars and almost pulled out in front of a bycyclist. I managed to stop.

Got me one a few years ago. I had a green light through an intersection, and there were three cars coming at me. It was 0-Dark-30 and all I could see was headlights. As the lights from the last car cleared my vision, I sensed more than saw that there was a motion behind the last car. Jammed on the brakes. Idiot crossed the road behind those cars and didn't even see me. I had no chance to see him. No reflective gear or lights. It was so close, that if I'd have had another 6" of stopping space, he'd only have had dirty underwear and a story to tell. As it was, he got a (possibly) broken leg and broken bicycle out of it. Thankfully, I had three witnesses let the cops know that he rode out in front of me and I had the green. Never heard from anyone on it. I notified my insurance, but no claim was ever made.

19 posted on 05/01/2023 8:41:49 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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