Originally Posted by
Lombard
I believe most of my close calls/near misses to be motorists who honestly didn't see me. I even had a guy almost hit me, stop short, then lower the window and apologize saying "I honestly didn't see you!". More like he wasn't really paying attention. Hard not to see me in my road construction orange or hi-vis yellow!
I have encountered more than my share of openly belligerent jerks, and there doesn't seem to be any correlation between my position on the road and the likelihood of their deliberate harassment. I figure the same is probably true of homicidal maniacs.