I was finishing the last mile of my Tuesday night hill ride, on a street with a bike lane, when I came within five inches of my second car into bike crash. I was riding downhill toward an intersection with a light (we had the green). A woman passed me in the car lane, then immediately turned right at the intersection. Not surprisingly she didn't use a turn signal. This was going to be ugly. But, then suddenly I remembered reading a Carmichael article on road safety about two years ago. The article recommended turning with the car, so I did. When we both came to a stop, I was about five inches from her car.

I looked at her and she hadn't even lowered her cell phone. I was shaky for the next hour. I'm going to have to dig into my suitcase of courage for tonight's ride.