Quote Originally Posted by Owlie View Post
I crashed because of one of those people with iPods. She was walking in the middle of the path (too narrow to get by her), so I ended up ditching into a flowerbed. I also nearly hit someone on my way back from the library on my last ride. The man was heading in the opposite direction. How do you miss a big red, white and blue blob yelling at you? I wound up braking hard and missing him by an inch. I hate riding to places on a college campus...
Sometimes it is the peds fault, and sometimes it's just a sheer accident. But you can get really hurt when you hit one on your bike. My elderly landlord now has a metal rod in his thigh bone because a pedestrian stepped out into the street from behind a big bush. He was going slow, and I can't imagine how badly he'd have been hurt if he was going faster.