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Rarely.
Back in the autumn I rear-ended a people carrier that decided to stop dead just after a turn. Wet road, not enough distance to avoid ramming the stem into my groin.
Slipped off at 0mph on wet drain covers back in the winter, knees are scarred bad.
A guy at the track decided to swing down into me and send me flying, minimal injuries.
Had a brick-shithouse of a man tackle me in Bermondsey a month ago (he decided to run into the road as I was going along). That really hurt. Knee is still busted, hurts after any real cycling. He was, of course, fine. He blamed me and carried on walking, didn't even see if I was okay, which I wasn't.
A much thinner guy did a rabbit in headlights in front of me yesterday on a wet road, skidded a little (on a roadie) as I shouted at him to get out of the middle of the road, where he stood dead still staring at me. There was a bus parked to the left, and oncoming traffic, if he didn't get back I'd have had a head-on or a ped-on.
Okay maybe not that rarely.
Bikes were pretty much fine every time though.
I should probably balance that with a heap of near-misses (like mr rabbit), I am quite lucky I wasn't wiped out by a fast-accelerating HGV that decided to go from standstill in right hand lane to swing round a vehicle into my path on the left... the removals van that did the exact same thing... the hgv long trailer (like wood/girder transporter) that did the same thing... the taxis that swing out... the cyclists that cut across without looking... and any number of near-ped-injuries.