Might as well throw in my closest call. I've never been hit and only crashed once (not counting numerous mountain bike crashes as a kid). I get swiped/brushed about once or twice a month but I've never gone down because of it as I leave plenty of "oh ****" space on my right. Anyway, the one close call happened at this intersection. I had been waiting at the red light to travel northbound across the larger street. When the light changed I began moving forward into the intersection while clipping in my left foot. I remember that I had kind of missed the pedal and was a bit distracted getting my foot in the right place. There was a pickup oncoming and I had a feeling he might turn without signalling and hit me with a left cross, so I was watching him pretty intently. Unfortunately, from my left a car was running the red light (traveling eastward). Since I was focused on the oncoming pickup I didn't notice the car until it was within 10 feet of me. I immediately turned hard to the right and put full back-pressure on my right pedal (this is a fixed gear bike), I didn't even try to touch the brakes, which basically resulted in a insta-trackstand and some slight redirection of my momentum to the right. The car continued through the red and missed the left side of my handlebars by inches. The elderly woman driving it didn't not seem aware at all that she almost hit me, nor that she ran the red light. I came away with a few takeaways:

- I'm really glad I didn't look down at my foot to see why I wasn't clipping in, I probably wouldn't have seen the woman run the red in time to do anything about it.
- I think if I had gone for the brakes I also would've tried to brake in a straight line and would've been hit. I'm not sure why I didn't try to use them, but I'm glad I didn't.
- Possibly the most important lesson learned was not to focus so much on one potential threat that I ignore others. Even if that truck had tried to left cross I had more options for avoidance than I had with somebody running the red. I focused too much on the lesser threat.