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Old 04-14-08 | 10:18 PM
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Originally Posted by yukon cornelius
i got hit by a car today! wooohooooo. i was taking a left hand turn behind a car taking a left hand turn. the car behind me was going straight and must have forgot that i was there. somehow even though i was sprawled out in a major chicago intersection and the lady hit me twice not a single person stopped. the person who hit me drove off without seeing if i was ok and as soon as i got to the side of the road business continued as usual. that makes me feel really great about the motorists of chicago.

thankfully i seem to be ok. my hand kinda hurts and my gloves ripped but besides that everything is a ok. this is really disturbing because people have seemed to forgotten all road rules now that the weather is warming. i didn't have a single incident this winter and in the last week i've had numerous close calls as a biker and as a pedestrian. people running stop signs and lights, sides wipping the bike lane etc. usually the person who almost kills me is talking on a cell phone and driving an urban assault vehicle (see suv in dictionary).
That is horrible! I'm glad to hear you weren't hurt worse. Did you call the cops? That's hit and run, and it's inexcusable.
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