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Eugenio Mastroviti
Guest
Riding down the High Road in East Finchley, i was giving what I thought
was a reasonably wide berth to the parked cars (about 1m), a car pulled
out of its parking space, did that thing i absolutely HATE (that my wife
does religiously too when she drives, grrr), starting the turn indicator
only when it was already moving. It was quick and too close to stop - I
braked, but I hit the front right of the car, bounced and flew over the
bike. Grazed shins (against the handlebar), some pain in my left knee (I
dented the car with it) and a badly bruised right hip. What really got
me mad was
a) there was a bus some distance behind me. It didn't even attept to
brake, if I hadn't gotten VERY quickly on my feet and pulled the bike
away it would have gone over it;
b) the elderly lady driving the car was in a state of absolute shock, I
couldn't even release some steam by yelling at her and getting properly
angry. She was extremely kind, spent all the time apologising and
offered to drive me to the hospital (offer that I, rather stupidly, refused)
Oh well. Bike's ok, I'll be fine in a few hours. Could have been worse,
I guess. I cycled to work and got the opportunity to burn some adrenalin
500m further on, when a guy in a red Rover just ignored the stop sign
and missed me by about 10 cm. He was terrified by my reaction, I'm afraid.
Eugenio
was a reasonably wide berth to the parked cars (about 1m), a car pulled
out of its parking space, did that thing i absolutely HATE (that my wife
does religiously too when she drives, grrr), starting the turn indicator
only when it was already moving. It was quick and too close to stop - I
braked, but I hit the front right of the car, bounced and flew over the
bike. Grazed shins (against the handlebar), some pain in my left knee (I
dented the car with it) and a badly bruised right hip. What really got
me mad was
a) there was a bus some distance behind me. It didn't even attept to
brake, if I hadn't gotten VERY quickly on my feet and pulled the bike
away it would have gone over it;
b) the elderly lady driving the car was in a state of absolute shock, I
couldn't even release some steam by yelling at her and getting properly
angry. She was extremely kind, spent all the time apologising and
offered to drive me to the hospital (offer that I, rather stupidly, refused)
Oh well. Bike's ok, I'll be fine in a few hours. Could have been worse,
I guess. I cycled to work and got the opportunity to burn some adrenalin
500m further on, when a guy in a red Rover just ignored the stop sign
and missed me by about 10 cm. He was terrified by my reaction, I'm afraid.
Eugenio