Thanks all for the kind words.

But your stories of semi-blind or -comatose drivers freak me out! The insurance lady said, "It's getting scary riding a bike in Vancouver, isn't it?" and I said, "No, actually, I'd rather be on my bike because I have more ways to escape. The drivers are really courteous, IF they see you. But most of the time they're just not paying attention." She agreed, "they're in la-la land." *sigh*

I do expect to be sore tomorrow morning and to have a big purple bruise on my thigh. Actually I feel the exact same as the time I took a spill on frosty pavement about a month ago. The insurance lady laughed when I said I was good at falling. Thank God, because right now a broken wrist would be a catastrophe - I need to finish writing my PhD thesis!!

Now I'm having second thoughts about not calling the police. It didn't cross my mind at that time, and I wish I had asked the guy in the SUV to stop and give me his info. But I don't expect him to contest the claim, he'll most likely just pay out-of-pocket instead of dealing with ICBC. I must say it's nice to have a central, public insurance company. It's not my-lawyer-against-your-lawyer unless there are serious damages involved. And I was in a rush to get to work.

Any Canadians have input on the importance of calling the police if there is nothing broken? What do drivers do if they just rear-end each other at low speed, for example? Maybe I'll call the non-emergency number just to be in the stats of cyclists hit by cars this year.

By the way, Badger: 10th and Fir.

*sigh* Ok, back to work.