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11-08-02, 01:43 PM
Date: Yesterday
Time: 8.17a
Where: Corner of 31st and Crown in Vancouver, BC (31st ave has cars parked on both sides of the street).
Who: Me and a Mini-Van.
What do I do: Coming down Crown, Think that a slowing-down vehicle (on 31st) will come to a complete stop because she has seen me -- and waltz straight into the path of the min-van.
(My wife had just sailed through the intersection and the driver kept going through the intersection while not looking in my direction. Since it was raining, I forgot to and couldn't make eye contact with driver. If I had done that, I wouldn't up be for this award).
What happens?: My bike gets hit at about 25-30Kmph, making contact with panniers, I fly off the bike and land on terra firma. Ride back home and take cage to work.
Damage: bends my rear rack a little, destroys my lunch box within the panniers, minor scruffs to nice ortlieb panniers, bad road rash on right thing and left calf, Bum right elbow. Gotta take Bike to LBS to get it checked out. Preliminary estimates are mild damage and bent rear rack (GIANT by Topeak).
Damage to Mini-van: Scraped pain in the front fender and a bent license plate. Dunno what the damage (in $) is gonna be. Gave her my phone# and address.
Fault: MINE!I guess I am also up for the Darwin Awards now... I feel to STUPID!
Moral of Story: Always stop at stop signs and never play cat-and-mouse games with cars and NEVER expect them to stop for you when they have right of way. I got caught up in the "let's get as fast as possible to work" race. Maybe I should try that race while riding "legally"..
Cheers!
Narayan
PS: I wanted to post this yesterday, but was ashamed to do that.
PS2: Posted this in the BMX forum by mistake. Boy! I am on a roll!!! :'(
Time: 8.17a
Where: Corner of 31st and Crown in Vancouver, BC (31st ave has cars parked on both sides of the street).
Who: Me and a Mini-Van.
What do I do: Coming down Crown, Think that a slowing-down vehicle (on 31st) will come to a complete stop because she has seen me -- and waltz straight into the path of the min-van.
(My wife had just sailed through the intersection and the driver kept going through the intersection while not looking in my direction. Since it was raining, I forgot to and couldn't make eye contact with driver. If I had done that, I wouldn't up be for this award).
What happens?: My bike gets hit at about 25-30Kmph, making contact with panniers, I fly off the bike and land on terra firma. Ride back home and take cage to work.
Damage: bends my rear rack a little, destroys my lunch box within the panniers, minor scruffs to nice ortlieb panniers, bad road rash on right thing and left calf, Bum right elbow. Gotta take Bike to LBS to get it checked out. Preliminary estimates are mild damage and bent rear rack (GIANT by Topeak).
Damage to Mini-van: Scraped pain in the front fender and a bent license plate. Dunno what the damage (in $) is gonna be. Gave her my phone# and address.
Fault: MINE!I guess I am also up for the Darwin Awards now... I feel to STUPID!
Moral of Story: Always stop at stop signs and never play cat-and-mouse games with cars and NEVER expect them to stop for you when they have right of way. I got caught up in the "let's get as fast as possible to work" race. Maybe I should try that race while riding "legally"..
Cheers!
Narayan
PS: I wanted to post this yesterday, but was ashamed to do that.
PS2: Posted this in the BMX forum by mistake. Boy! I am on a roll!!! :'(