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NoFuckingChance
@Antidotes
Ohh... it's just coming up to my one year anniversary of commuting to work solely via biek. Twelve miles a day, five days a week and I've just had my first ever experience of being run over properly.
I had just peeled off Elephant&Castle, southbound on to Highgate St and a 4x4 coming the opposite way turned straight across me on to Rodney St. I only had a second to react, unfortunately not enough time to flick right around the oncoming vehicle, I knew shit was about to hit the fan though so I turned into Rodney St with the oncoming 4x4 but alas we collided.
It was a fucking horrible sound as I hit the passenger side door, I smashed the floor and picked myself up as quickly as possible. We both stopped in the road, the driver was on her own, I saw the look on her face through the window and she was absolutely mortified. Weirdly I felt no anger or shock, I still don't, she wound down the window and she was crying. I asked her if she was ok but I didn't get much of an answer. I said "pull over ahead", she did, I asked again and she said she was ok, I put my hand through the window and we held each others hand for a while and chatted, I said I was ok and told her to go home. Handlebar/frontwheel situation was LOL, saddle angle was fucked, bar tape is shredded, so is my left arm, R.I.P merino base layer.. I spent a while on the side of the road putting the bike back together. I'm at home now getting my shit together.
It doesn't matter how many lights you have on the front of your whip, sometimes people just don't see you, shit happens, could have been worse. Stay safe y'all. xxx