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[emily_in_nc]

Glad you're okay, Raindrop! I think most if not all of us have had close calls over the years.

I had a bad one in Albuquerque recently. I was crossing a busy four-lane road with no crosswalks and no stoplights (ugh), so I had to "go for it". Looked both ways several times, all clear in both directions. When I got to the midpoint and continued going across, a truck pulled out of a parking lot very close to me onto the road and just about hit me. DH started yelling, and I just pedaled like h*ll and made it across. If I'd tried to stop or slow up, I am not sure the driver would have been able to stop, so it was a judgement call. It was probably scarier for DH than me since he saw it unfolding, and I didn't even see the driver until I'd accelerated and made it to safety. These things can happen so fast. Really scary. I try to be so careful, but with 7000 miles under my belt this year so far, I'm not surprised there have been a few near misses.

[Pax]

Glad you're okay, Raindrop! I think most if not all of us have had close calls over the years.

I had a bad one in Albuquerque recently. I was crossing a busy four-lane road with no crosswalks and no stoplights (ugh), so I had to "go for it". Looked both ways several times, all clear in both directions. When I got to the midpoint and continued going across, a truck pulled out of a parking lot very close to me onto the road and just about hit me. DH started yelling, and I just pedaled like h*ll and made it across. If I'd tried to stop or slow up, I am not sure the driver would have been able to stop, so it was a judgement call. It was probably scarier for DH than me since he saw it unfolding, and I didn't even see the driver until I'd accelerated and made it to safety. These things can happen so fast. Really scary. I try to be so careful, but with 7000 miles under my belt this year so far, I'm not surprised there have been a few near misses.

Albuquerque is the only place I was ever truly scared to ride my motorcycle (and I've ridden all over the country), some of the most inattentive and sometimes downright aggressive drivers I've ever seen.

[PamNY]

Scary. Glad you are okay.