Exactly. In The Art of Urban Cycling, the author (Robert Hurst) describes a cyclist who shall remain nameless who was cruising along and urban street and almost got creamed by a delivery truck backing out of an alley without looking. He makes the point that in the eyes of the law, the delivery truck would be at fault due to unsafe backing. But he goes on to relate how the police report would have failed to note that the cyclist had passed this alley many, many times and knew it was dangerous, but in this instance was distracted by an attractive member of the opposite sex on a porch across the street!

Good to hear you made it through another learning experience!