Originally Posted by noisebeam

I finally decided to vote. In my opinion a right hook must involve contact between vehicles - a clear and non ambiguous definition. Of course a cyclist can avoid a right hook thru awareness, evasive action, etc. that itself can be very unpleasant (or not depending how the hook was averted). So one can be right hooked and have a collision or one can have a narrowly avoided right hook either because the cyclist or the motorist (or both) realized in time the situation that was developing.