Originally Posted by
noisebeam
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
This type have accident, parallel travel, has always been touted as rare and thus BL were often touted as being "frivolous" as they work primarily to curb parallel travel incidents. Sideswiping was usually considered part of this category.
Intersection accidents were always touted as the most frequently occurring.