Originally Posted by sonatageek

So yesterday, with perfect weather and the expectation of a pleasant ride home 2 a**hole pedestrians step off the curb right into my path and I plow into them at about 18 MPH. I go down and the helmet takes a big impact to the pavement (back 'tail' of it smashed in and the plastic shell cracked) and the leeft brake lever totally mangled.

So they think it is my fault because they were stupid. Called the police (this is in the city of Cleveland to no expectation that any would show up) and as I am doing so the cause of the accident walks away with her friend laughing. I still have a little bit of a headache and my neck and muscles on the right side are stiff.

Right now I am feeling too apprehensive to ride my commute --- which really bums me out ---- So how does one process through and get past having an accident? The truly scary part is, if there would have been a car anywhere close behind me, I would have gone down by the pedestrians negligence and would have gotten run over by the car.