Originally Posted by Paul Barnard

I have had one close call with a bicyclist in all my years of driving and it happened right around the corner from my house about a year ago. As I pull out of my subdivision onto the main road, there's a tall privacy fence and a hedge row in the yard to my left. The fence and hedges run right beside a sidewalk. In order to see far enough down the street to make sure it's safe to pull out, I have to move well into the area where the sidewalk intersects the street.
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