Originally Posted by
genec
I think the thing I found most interesting is the commentary on "parallel travel accidents" which is stated as being about 35% of all accidents.
This is a significant difference from ...
Is it? I always thought that hit from behind was touted as rare, but sideswipe not.
(Just this morning I avoided a sideswipe when I was in BL. My tire track was 12" inside bike lane stripe, I heard a truck coming from behind and glanced in mirror and saw a glass panel truck approaching. The front of the modified pickup truck was fully within the adjacent lane, but the L shaped bracket that supports the glass panels was over the stripe by at least 6". Having little time to signal I did a little swerve to see if the driver would react, but they didn't so I moved far right in the BL and the L bracket passed by my feet with about 18" to spare.)
Al