Originally Posted by
Business810
She admitted fault right away, though. Her excuse: "I didn't know you were going so fast and I didn't know there was a pedestrian in the cross walk [of the side street she was turning on.]" Of course, she sped up to try to pull this whole maneuver.
Business810, I'm glad you're OK.
Off topic for a sec: Her excuse ties into the discussions here and on A&S about assigning fault in car-bicycle collisions. It seems the "report" at issue has found that in many cases the cyclist is at fault because he/she is "travelling too fast" (the term it used was "unsafe speed"). This makes me shake my head in disbelief. Drivers are constantly complaining that cyclists go too slow for traffic...yet when they accelerate to pass and then right-hook us, they claim we're going "so fast".
On topic: no commute for me today. The kid had a fever all night so I'm on call to pick her up at day care.