Originally Posted by
3bikes
Make that phrase "but I didn't see him..." a thing that will never stand up in court.
...and more specifically that no reasonable person sitting on a jury will believe.
Eventually every rider is probably going to get hit. You don't want there to be any doubt in the jury's mind or insurance company with whom the fault rests. It's also why I ride with a handlebar video camera running during my commutes.
Proactively, I also had my wife snap pictures of what I look like at night and during the day from a driver's perspective.