Originally Posted by mrbrklyn

I don't know who your blaming any more, yourself, her or the traffic. In any event. Five feet is a lot of distances when accounting for the angles into the driveway. It would have given you a much greater chance to avoid the accident and to minimize the damage by either sweving or even diving off the bike onto the hood of the car. Also, vision out of the side of your vision filed is especially sensitive to movement. That field grows conically outward. Even if you weren't paying attention, having a visual cue at the periphery of your field of vision would have caused a startling reaction in your nervous system as a reflex. It would have gotten you attention fast. So unless your telling me you were sleeping on the bike with your eyes closed, I have no answers. Ride down the center of the road. If your telling me that she barreled out so fast, and I'm not sure a Posche could even do this from a cold stop, that even driving down the center of the road would have made no difference in the results... well... your off the hook and she should be facing a fat law suite.


Ruben