Originally Posted by
Maelochs
As for the lucky rider in the first post ... as another said, he has probably gotten away with riding stupid for so long, talking to him would be worthless. Maybe a close call will change his habits .... but, whatever. Unfortunately there isn't much I can learn from this incident because fortunately I had already learned it.
First and second rules of the road: Don't have accidents. Don't cause accidents.
Of course, nowadays it is PC to call them "crashes."
I actually chased a guy down once who had run a red light because I didn't think he'd known how close he came to being hit--a guy about 30 years younger than me. I told him what I'd seen and how close he had come to getting killed, and we ended up having a very nice chat and riding together for about a mile. He'd recently just come back to riding, and hadn't thought running red lights was a big deal, but said he'd have to rethink that.
Come to think of it, he wasn't wearing a helmet, but that didn't come up.