Originally Posted by JohnX

I have a suggestion that I have not used myself but when I was considering a cross country tour I was going to use. That is to go to a police website and buy a blue and red flashing light for a bicycle

Nothing grabs the attention of the intoxicated driver; any driver for that matter; like the flashing blues.

and when you are riding at night you are subjected to what I would say is a ten fold increase in intoxicated drivers. put an alert on google news for "bicycle fatality". you will see that most are at night or early in the morning. its really sobering (no pun intended) to read those google news items for bicycle fatalities-helmets don't help when bicycles are slammed into at 50 mph from behind. and it seems as if there are 2 or 3 a day.