Originally Posted by
mr_bill
Dude was literally a sitting duck.
And those rumble strips are one of the Top-3 reasons I quit bike touring in rural areas. It was sketch enough BEFORE they forced me into the middle of the travel lane.
Cellphone use.
Rumble strips.
Oversized vehicle are fashionable for non-professional drivers.
^^Pick these three in any order. A wide motor vehicle, driven by an amateur, taking up all of the space in the lane, very possibly distracted, and a bicycle filling the lane up ahead hidden behind other vehicles. Recipe for disaster. It does not take much imagination to see a line of cars traveling at 60+mph in both directions, the first car catches a small gap in oncoming traffic, veers suddenly, at speed, across the center line to avoid the cyclist doing 15mph. Then every subsequent car has fewer and fewer split seconds to do anything at all. Cross the double yellow into traffic, or steam-roll the cyclist? It's "El Diablo's choice".