Has anyone ever crashed avoiding you?
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Buddy and I on a road ride passing a side street that had a stop sign. Car started up out of the side street, sees 2 approaching bicycles, that have right of way, hits his brakes and gets rear ended by the car behind. A female passenger in an SUV pulls up along side us and yells that the accident was our fault. Well, no it wasn’t. It was the fault of the guy not paying attention to what the car in front of him was doing, which was yielding right of way to us, which we had.
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Assuming I'm not biking around like Mr. Magoo drove, no. No car has ever crashed trying to avoid me.
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Seriously. I visited the UK w/my DW who is from there and I'm not sure I could ever bike there! And we were in a small town (Burnley) but the traffic was insane. But to your last point. Absolutely, I'm certain that nearly everyone that winds up seriously hurt (or worse) in a bicycle crash had one or more close calls that should have clued them in that their roadcraft needed some TLC.
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I have had a few doing panic stops and causing rear enders the last one I came to a stop on our tandem on a offshoot road it has a light for me to cross. so I came to a stop and a guy thought i was going ride in front of him and slammed on his brakes and a guy behind him had to sideswipe him shooting past.
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