I got hit (right hand turner)

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Always good for another read:
http://bicyclesafe.com/

Buddha bellies- be sure to read about the "door zone" there....

[buddha_bellies]

Always good for another read:
http://bicyclesafe.com/

Buddha bellies- be sure to read about the "door zone" there....

Thanks! This is definately a good read. I've learned quite a bit since signing up with TE forum. Thanks to all of you gals.

[channlluv]

Hang on. You get hit. You get abused verbally by the driver. Someone calls the ambulance, thank goodness, and the police, but the driver leaves before they arrive. Didn't they ask you for his information? Holy cow. What kind of an investigation is that?

If it were a hit-and-run SUV-on-car accident, I'm guessing they would have investigated a bit more and butthead driver would have an APB out on him for leaving the scene of the accident.

I'm glad you're not seriously hurt, and I'm not sure I would have reacted any differently in your place. I'm very anti-confrontational, too, but that's when the police should have stepped up and asked you for the information and pursued it on your behalf. You might very well have been in shock. And you're sitting there alone in a parking lot, post-accident, after this guy abused you and left? Grrrrrrrrr.

I just shared your story with DH, an avid cyclist, and he said the SUV driver was absolutely at fault, and yes, he should have looked to his right, blinker or not, because HE was merging into your lane, in this case, the bike lane. Anytime you merge into another traffic lane, you as the merge-er are responsible for doing it safely and yielding the right of way.

File a report. Seriously. File a report. File charges. Nail the ba$tard.

Roxy

[beccaB]

I got hit when I was running over 20 years ago. I was pretty young(22) and it scared me so bad I ran away. It looked to me like the people in the car were laughing, and it was a small Virginia town. Think "deliverance". I got harassed all the time. I think it was their fault because I had the light in my favor at the intersection. I should have chosen stunt work because of the way I saved myself from serious injury. I think a person can react very much unlike themselves in a situation as stressful as hitting someone, but I would personally be mortified if I hit someone even if it wasn't my fault.