Originally Posted by
RazorWind
I'm glad you weren't (more seriously) injured. Did the police show up or anything? My inner cycling advocate wants to blame the driver of the SUV, but I can't help but feel like not crashing into stationary objects ought to be the cyclist's responsibility.
You might stretch it into a "failure to yield" and argue the fact that the object shouldn't have been stationary in that place (i.e., that she shouldn't have made the left if she didn't know she could clear the intersection ahead of oncoming traffic), but given OP's description I don't think that will fly in this case. To OP, sorry you're so banged up, and hope you heal quickly!