Originally Posted by
B. Carfree
The poll didn't include include the infamous "brake check", unless you count running into a stopped/parked car as the same thing.
I counted my brake check as a right hook since the motorist was intending to turn right, but couldn't because the driveway that she was turning into was full (this was about a week ago). Other than that I've broadsided two cars, both as a result of riding too fast on the sidewalk, and both in my first summer of urban cycling (legally their fault, realistically both of our fault). I have been broadsided twice, once by a car merging into me trying to get into the turn lane while I was in the bike lane (a convertible, luckily, so he heard me yelling), and once by a gal whose foot slipped off of her brake pedal as I crossed in front of her in the crosswalk. And once I rear ended a car (moving, not parked) because I was riding like a complete and utter jackass; dude was really cool about it, even though I scratched his rear quarter panel with my handlebars.