It's time for another visit to the lightly visited early days of The New Found Photography. So why this image? Very simple, I went out on my bike this morning and was hit by a car. I spent a rather unpleasant day at a local hospital and got some good news. It's going to hurt, a lot, and I'm going to be pretty stiff for a week or so, but nothing broken, nothing torn, nothing permanent. Except for the bike.
So drivers....You can't loop around a cyclist and make a sharp right turn right in front of them. You can't make a sharp left turn in front of a cyclist. That's what happened to me. A driver got an opening in traffic and scooted through the gap, and that's where I was. Drivers, you need to give at least two feet to a cyclist, better yet three, when passing. Please, don't kill a cyclist. It's not nice.
Yikes! I am so glad you are reasonably O.K. I think this must be the most common way that bicyclists are hit. My father was hit by a logging truck (!) in a similar way. He was thrown into a ditch and his helmet cracked in two, but other than a few broken ribs, he was alright. Logging truck didn't notice.
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