Originally Posted by sbhikes

A local woman was killed in a situation similar to this. The road was too narrow for the truck who passed her and a bike to ride side-by-side. The road had also recently been through storm damage. There is absolutely no shoulder at all--one side is a sheer face and the other side is a sheer drop-off due to a landslide. Even if she'd been poised at the edge of the cliff there still wasn't enough room to be passed. You would have to see it to believe it. And yet he decided to "pass" her anyway, which, seeing as there was nowhere for her to go, meant she was run over and killed.

Sometimes there's not much you can do.