Originally Posted by
a77impala
My wife would go ballistic if I told her but I have to tell someone. I got broadsided by a car on my bike today, threw me into traffic lane. I didn't lay there very long! No injury, no damage. Typical driver encroaching into cross walk. Not paying attention, she said it was her fault and she was sorry. I was just happy to ride away from there.
I was on Lance Armstrong bikeway in Austin TX.
In the same vein: I was once riding down a county highway with a nice sized shoulder when I heard a car hitting the off road gravel followed by the "fwapping" of the tall grass in the ditch. The car then came barreling past me at full speed in the ditch to my right. They hit a farmer's field entrance road (which created a small ramp) and caught some air and kept moving. At the next field entrance they were less lucky and the car went straight up at 90 degrees landing on its rear end and finally coming to a stop. I pulled up on my bike as the driver was getting out of the car. She had apparently passed out (something medical?) with her cruise control on and drifted off the road. I don't know how close she came to hitting me, but I'm probably pretty lucky to be alive!
Do not tell my wife!