Took me a while to post this but last week was my first physical encounter with a car since 84. I was doing about 17mph in a bike lane slightly ahead of a small Chevy Blazer to my left crossing a 3 lane road. When I entered the first lane I heard the Blazer accelarate hard, but by the time he passed me I was in the second lane and going into the 3rd when he turned right into that third lane. My bike and I hit the side of the Blazer where his side mirror was hooking my arm which dragged me and the bike around the turn with him. The bikes rear end skidded sideways into the rear of the vehicle with a bang. The driver then proceeds to accelarate faster up to 40mph!!! I was fighting for control of the bike fearing it was going to slip under the vehicle, so I struggled to stay connected to the Chevys mirror and stay upright and still try to figure out if the bike was yet rideable and yelling at him to stop! He takes me about a 10th of a mile down the road before he suddenly slows down causing another problem with holding on and keeping the bike upright. At about 5 MPH I jerked away from his truck and as soon as that happened he accelarated away giving me the international sign language for @*$#you!!

I went to a gas station to call the cops and check myself and the bike out and too my surprise there was no damage to me or the bike!!!! Unfortunately I was only able to get the first 4 numbers of the license plate and the cop said they could no do anything unless they had all the numbers.

Wow was that luck or something else? whatever you want to call it, I'm grateful!