I am so glad that you were not seriously hurt.

I had a similar accident (luckily I was in a car). I was out of work for two weeks, due to torn muscles in my shoulder, thanks to my shoulder harness. (This was good, it saved my face .)

In my case I was driving in the right automobile lane. The road would narrow before the next intersection, so most traffic wouldn't want to be in that lane, because they would need to merge with other traffic. The other car was coming from the opposite direction and turned left in front of me. I was going 40 miles per hour (the allowed speed on that road.)

I think that when people see noone in that lane is moving, they assume that the other lane must be backed up also. Even if you had been a bus, I don't know if they would have noticed you.

Oh, now that I read your story again, the car didn't come from a road, it came from between two cars from a driveway or something. There is no way you could have anticipated that. However, I will bet that now you will unconsciously monitor for gaps between cars like that. Thank you for sharing your story, you may well have saved one of our lives, by alerting us to this possibility.

I hope you had taken the insurance information from the driver. When I have been in accidents, the pain often doesn't start until hours later.

Let's all hope for the day when we need to worry more about crashes between two cyclists, than with a car. (At least it will be a fair fight )

Please spend the next few days resting, you have gone through a trauma, even if you only have a lumpy ear to show for it.

Mary M.