My LCI instructor ground it into our heads, if you make a habit of running red lights and stop signs, you're gonna get hit. Might be sooner, might be later, but someday...

So yeah... I am locally infamous as the guy who always stops for traffic signals. I have been rear-ended 5 times in the past year and a half; 4 times by fellow cyclists and once by a drunken pick-up driver. I still have a bent quick release lever on the rear brake of my road bike where the local bike club prez got me while I was waiting on a string of cars to clear an intersection ;-)

So Mr. Rascha's little story really drives home to me...

Tom