My First Crash

Wahey, my first bike on car joust today! Was cycling straight down the road
when a nice lady coming the opposite way in a nice merc turned right, across
my path. I applied brakes hard but could not stop in time. Fortunately
because she hadn't seen me she kept on going and would have been gone before
I reached the space she was occupying BUT! then she finally saw me
approaching side of car and did the first thing that comes into her head
which was slam on the brakes. So I hit her. With brakes pulled brake cable
stretchingly tight the impact turned out to be the disappointingly small
thud of rubber on metal and no damage done to car or bike so I gave a
friendly wink and cycled off to my lecture before she could say SMIDSY and
that it was my fault for not wearing a helmet.

Sometimes it's better when they don't see you!

Mark Thompson wrote:
then she finally saw me approaching side of car and
did the first thing that comes into her head which was slam on the
brakes. So I hit her.

Classic insurance claim quote. ;-) glad to hear no damage was done to
anyone.



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change warm for hot wrote:

Fortunately
because she hadn't seen me she kept on going and would have been gone
before I reached the space she was occupying BUT! then she finally saw me
approaching side of car and did the first thing that comes into her head
which was slam on the brakes.

Classic. Incorrect action compounded by incorrect reaction. Driving
without due care, six points, fined two hundred quid plus costs, next case.

Glad you escaped harm.

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Guy
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"Sic hoc adfixum in obice legere potes, et liberaliter educatus et nimis
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