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Old 01-01-02, 11:21 PM
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Allister
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I had two nastyish ones this year, and I managed to have them both around May.

The first was here:

I misjudged a gap between cars as I was passing the leftmost lane, clipped a car and went down and into an instinctive fetal tuck. I was mostly unhurt, but my front wheel and fork were flattened by a truck.

The second, only a couple of weeks later, was a little bit down the road from here:

The speed limit is 80km/h but the lanes are wide and the traffic light. According to the guy who hit me, a truck in the right lane swerved across the lane pushing him onto the shoulder, and since he was concentrating on what the truck was doing he didn't see me until too late, slammed on the anchors but rear ended me anyway. My bike was surprisingly unharmed apart from a toasted rear rack, and I was unhurt apart from a stiff neck and a cracked helmet. It could have been worse, but you should have seen the car. First time I ever saw a car come out second best from a car bike collision.

Here's looking forward to a somewhat less interesting 2002.
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