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Old 10-10-13 | 08:35 PM
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Lot of interesting comments. To address a few:

- Cops absolutely would have responded here where I live (Montgomery County, MD). Any time a pedestrian or biker is hit, it's an automatic response.

- In hindsight I probably should have let the people who came to my aid call the cops. But again, I was pretty certain I wasn't injured seriously (and I wasn't). I didn't hit my head or anything, just went flying and landed on my hip/side. It literally took a day to develop, but I've got the ugliest purple bruise on my hip I've ever seen. Ironically, there was nothing there at all when I went to bed that night, but the next morning was a different story. Someone did hand me her plate number, so I knew I had that.

- She failed to stop at the entrance/exit to the station - as she was required to - and thus didn't check for traffic in either direction, whether by bike or car. In hindsight, the accident probably had less to do with the probability she was using her cell phone and more to do with poor driving habits, as evidenced by her failure to stop and look. She was just rolling out to the street, and might almost as easily hit a car if there was one in range. So, yeah, after thinking about it I lean more toward the idea I should have called the cops, if for no other reason than her parents probably ought to know.

- I do most of my own wrench work, so I trued the front wheel the next day and was back on the road, so there was no expense to me. I was able to do enough on-scene checking to determine the wheel was the only issue. I was turning the front wheel hard to the right when we collided but it still hit her front right fender and then I was thrown off.
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