Wayward driver nearly causes head on collision on 2 lane road
01-21-19, 02:01 PM
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Wayward driver nearly causes head on collision on 2 lane road
I'm sure many folks on these forums bike roads like this ... be careful out there!
https://newschannel9.com/news/local/...GHFSK2j7D9dUz4
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01-21-19, 02:13 PM
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well that's a good argument for front licence plates. they are mandatory here in MA
01-21-19, 09:03 PM
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However, last I knew MA requires legible plates.
Any prior still valid rear-only MA plate (including the now inexplicably prized circa 1977-edition green plates) that is still legible you will pass inspection and keep your plate. However, if you fail legibility, you must replace your plate with a current issue plate, which are red symbols and white background with blue Massachusetts, both front and back plates. (Exception, motorcycles and trailers are rear only, and another for vintage cars.)
When my spouse’s green plate failed inspection we tore the house apart looking for the front license plate holder. (I found it.)
While we personally didn’t inexplicably prize the old green plates, just like old phone numbers, I still remember my spouse’s old plate number. Couldn’t tell you my spouse’s current plate number or mobile number though.
There are actually people who restore old plates. They charge money.
There are still six figures of MA green plates in circulation.
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But there are no bikes in this story. It's all about somebody that crossed a double line, in a car, threatening another driver.
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Nobody died either.
But to make this A&S worthy....
-mr. bill
But to make this A&S worthy....
- That’s why I always take the lane.
- I would choose another route.
- With a little more situational awareness they could have swerved left and right and stayed on the road.
- Everyone should wear high vis clothing.
- Choose another sport.
- Bunny hop.
- DRL.
- Driving during the day is dangerous.
- If you can’t see you can’t go.
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01-21-19, 11:27 PM
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Nobody died either.
But to make this A&S worthy....
-mr. bill
But to make this A&S worthy....
- That’s why I always take the lane.
- I would choose another route.
- With a little more situational awareness they could have swerved left and right and stayed on the road.
- Everyone should wear high vis clothing.
- Choose another sport.
- Bunny hop.
- DRL.
- Driving during the day is dangerous.
- If you can’t see you can’t go.
-mr. bill
01-22-19, 07:24 AM
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We never know how we will react in an emergency situation, but I have played that one out in my mind many times over. I do not hesitate to bail to the right just like that driver did. I'd start drifting all the way to the right just as soon as the car wandered across the line. If edge conditions allow I may try to ride it out, but I am prepared to completely bail out. We obviously don't get a chance to build skills and muscle memory from physical repetition in exercises like this, so if we are going to program ourselves to react well, we have to do so mentally. Much of my riding time is spent running various "what-ifs" through my mind.
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Must be quiet in the OP's neck of the woods. I could clog this forum daily with car carnage stories from this area.
01-23-19, 07:52 AM
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We never know how we will react in an emergency situation, but I have played that one out in my mind many times over. I do not hesitate to bail to the right just like that driver did. I'd start drifting all the way to the right just as soon as the car wandered across the line…
We obviously don't get a chance to build skills and muscle memory from physical repetition in exercises like this, so if we are going to program ourselves to react well, we have to do so mentally.
Much of my riding time is spent running various "what-ifs" through my mind.
We obviously don't get a chance to build skills and muscle memory from physical repetition in exercises like this, so if we are going to program ourselves to react well, we have to do so mentally.
Much of my riding time is spent running various "what-ifs" through my mind.
…I was hit from behind by a “distracted” (? inebriated) hit and run driver on an otherwise seemingly safe and peaceful route. By good fortune, I’m alive and relatively unimpaired.
Over the past few months I have come to realize that my safety aphorisms, collected over the years by personal or vicarious experience, are my way of actively aligning the stars in my favor, to anticipate those unseen and otherwise unanticipated dangers.
FWIW, for my own information at least, my other aphorisms beside those above are:
Over the past few months I have come to realize that my safety aphorisms, collected over the years by personal or vicarious experience, are my way of actively aligning the stars in my favor, to anticipate those unseen and otherwise unanticipated dangers.
FWIW, for my own information at least, my other aphorisms beside those above are:
- Make yourself as visible as possible,and assume nobody sees you.
- When riding at night, look for cars, not just headlights
- To know where a car is going, watch the front wheels, not the body or hood.
- You don’t have the right-of-way until the other yields it to you (learned from my teacher in driver’s ed)
- Like a weapon, assume every stopped car is loaded, with an occupant ready to exit from either side.
- Don’t ride over an area (such as puddles or leaves) when you can’t see the road surface.
- Truck at corner in sight, don't go right."
I’m also wary of passing on the right at an intersection, especially next to a bus or truck, after reading of fatalities on my routes - When approaching a curve with no forward sight lines, hug the curb…’tight to the right’ . .
- Jim’s Law of the Road: “No matter how well-paved and lightly traveled the Road, a vehicle is likely to pass on the left as you encounter an obstacle on the right.”…my argument to wear a rearview mirror.
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