I had a close call about 10pm at night.

I was riding south about 10mph (a slow to get some fresh air in the neighborhood ride) in a very low traffic residential area (20mph speed limits)

I had a white blinky in front, my wife had a steady beam and was riding about 5ft behind be perhaps 1-2ft to my right.

We approach an intersection with only cross traffic having a stop sign. A car approached on the right with their left turn signal on and stopped a full stop. Just as we were about to cross in front of it the car started to move. We slammed on brakes and turned hard right (to try and go behind vehicle) to avoid hitting it - the car also stopped right in our tracks. Driver had window down and said "I'm sorry - I thought you were turning" "What?" I said - she responsed "well your right turn light was on" and drove off.

Anyway clearly she was confused, but clearly quite stupid as well. We had already well cleared the point from where we would make a right turn and even so its pretty common knowledge not to assume a car is going to turn if they have signal on and pull right in front of it, let alone a bike that doesn't even have signals. Duh.

Al