Face..meet Pole..almost.

[Jenn]

Ok, so what do you do when..like, last week, I was leaving our neighborhood, and "Soccer Mom" in a van was at a stop sign. I was really moving along and pointed...LEFT..Like a car with a blinker she KNEW I was going LEFT. She still pulled out in front of me and again it took everything I had to slow down...Oh I was SO pissed. The sad thing is this all happens ON BASE where the MAX speed limit it 35 mph!!!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Ok, so what do you do when..l.

Jenn, what you do is...you always ride in such a way that you will be able to either stop or turn in time to avoid being crushed by the car that is going to turn in front of you in plain sight without having the right of way. You ASSUME ahead of time they are going to do the wrong thing and you ASSUME they don't see you at all. Always leave yourself an escape route- some way to either have sufficient time to stop or else a clear place to turn to avoid collision. Having had the right of way in an accident doesn't help you when you are dead. Unfortunately, in car/bike collisions it is almost the biker who gets seriously hurt, not the car driver. Expect trouble always and create a safe buffer zone around yourself by riding defensively.