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Old 09-06-20, 08:45 PM
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Please, drivers

Please learn what bicycle hand signals mean. This is the second time this has happened: I am pulling up to an intersection with a vehicle at a stop sign waiting for me to pass, when I am planning a turn. I use the proper hand signal to point the direction I am turning, and the driver thinks I am telling them to go ahead. Happened this morning, I have the right of way, car is stopped at a stop sign on my left. I am turning right, and point right with my right hand as I begin the turn. Driver starts to go, I reach for my brakes, luckily they see I'm still moving and stop moving through the intersection. l can only assume they thought I was motioning them to go ahead and go through, but I was signaling my turn. It almost makes me want to stop signaling in that particular situation before I get creamed by a driver who thinks I was waving them through.
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