This morning I hit a car!

Coming into a (rare, in my city) roundabout, I slowed to accommodate a car already in the circle.

Good thing -- because as she was leaving the roundabout, the motorist ... stops. Dead stop.

I tried to stop, too, but skidded into the rear bumper from an angle. In the slow-motion view that you get during an accident, I saw the front tire of my bike squeeze flat ... followed by flattening of the rim itself!

I had no idea it could do that.

Rim popped right back, no damage done. No damage to the car, either, or to me -- just got a black mark on my knee from when it hit my right handlebar.

Driver appeared befuddled. Indicated (through the rolled-up windows -- she wouldn't lower them) that she wanted to go to the gas station and was in the wrong lane ... so she just stopped.

Good thing I was, one, going slowly, and, two, not driving a truck!

I pay close attention, but she caught me by surprise. I don't tailgate cars, but because she was in the circle and I was coming in from a side street, I got closer than I should have.

It is hard to share the road with an unpredictable "stop anywhere" driver.