So I had my first bike accident yesterday, I was pretty embarassed as it was completely my fault.

I ran a red light going down Broadway in Downtown Manhattan, was probably going about 16mph and a woman started running across the street so I swerved to my right to avoid her. To my right though, crossing from the other side of the street were 3 guys crossing. I hit my brakes because I couldn't swerve out of their way, it was too crowded, my bike starts skidding and I run right into the guy in front.

I got knocked down and as I'm falling I'm just thinking "**** the bike is going to get scratched!" so I held onto the handlebars and my feet stayed in the clips and when I hit the ground on my side I held the bike up so it didn't touch the ground.

Anyway, a bike messenger helped me up and asked me if I was OK, I asked the guy if he was OK and he didn't say anything and his friends didn't say anything either (they might have been tourists and didn't speak English) and I said sorry for running into him. I checked my bike and it was fine and kept riding.

No one got hurt but I felt pretty stupid for the rest of the day. There was a whole crowd who stopped to see what was going on. Embarassing!