There is a separate stop sign on the MUP but that's true of any MUP crossing around here. This one just happens to be right next to another street. In fact there's no sidewalk along the roads here and the MUP entrance/exit on the left is one of those curved, widened areas that incorporates the corner of the grass at that SW corner, for the most part.

To be honest I was dazed enough to not remember exactly everything, but I believe he had his signal on AND that I was there first, or I wouldn't have gone. But we were both stopped for cross traffic. There's a fine line between me being more confident now (with more cycling experience) and taking my turn when I believe it comes and yet that puts me at more risk for people who are not looking for me.

There are crosswalk lines painted and there's the 'trail crossing' sign/light. I kind of came to the conclusion that even if it's not considered the same intersection, I was in a crosswalk. And I was somewhere near the middle or far side of the street when hit in the rear, so that obviously shows I was well across before he got there. The parts of my rear blinky were all over the middle of the street so I imagine that's where the rear of my bike was, but I guess they could've flown off.

Thanks for the thoughts. The cop did not take down many details unfortunately so we'll see what happens. I don't know what story the driver told the cops either. The cop didn't believe me that I was yelling for him to look out, but since there was time enough for me to see him and yell at him, I was quite far out in the road by the time the wreck happened. Slamming on my brakes would have only made me get hit square on so I kept going and I'm lucky I got that far.

Duh, should've posted this first.
This is looking west at the MUP where I was coming from (the crosswalk I entered) and a view from above, assuming the link works right
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sour...251.11,,0,6.39