That’s an interesting theory Andy. Or maybe a car turning left from RG onto Nine? This has been a depressing afternoon reading the idiot comments in the SJ Merc and simply contemplating the tragedy. It’s seems morbid to genuflect too much, but it does hit uncomfortably way to close to home.
Last year I nearly broadsided at 40 mph a pickup making a left in front of me at the Shvannah Chanelle winery turnoff (about ¾ mile below Redwood Gulch). It was the most unsettling moment I’ve had in 25 years of cycling in the Santa Cruz Mountains. I wondered if the driver really never saw me. I know I may be annoying or boring people about this, but right after the incident I mounted a LED headlight and have used it on all my rides since.