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You can never quite predict what's going to happen at that junction. Is it going to be "is that it? I was expecting armaggeddon" or mexican taxi standoff or perhaps sudden emergency nodder stop. How about someone pondering turning off into the road but then deciding that t-boning a taxi is maybe not so great and cutting you up as they retreat back to the danger of the cycle path or my favourite - the Star Trek transporter taxi which suddenly materialises in front of you even though you KNOW you checked every possible direction.
Sounds like you got lucky - hopefully no damage to you or bike
rhowe
Stonehedge
Close call this morning, adrenaline currently pumping. The front wheel of my Brompton glanced off the front driver's side wheel and wheel arch. Dropped the bike but managed not to go down myself.
I was on the Torrington place bike path heading west and a driver turned across me at the last second to make a right on to Gordon Street, wiping me out in the process. Most dangerous part of my commute and I knew it was going to get me one day.
The driver and his wife pulled up and jumped out, both in their late 60s/ 70s immediately apologetic with excuses such as "We're late for a hospital appointment" and "I'm lost" and the classic "I'm such a good driver normally".
1/10 hope the day home is less crashy.