lucky7! more like unlucky7!

The wise man would argue that you should have seen him and anticipated that he would pull out and formulated a strategy to deal with that eventuality.
As a motorcyclist it becomes second nature to assume that everyone else on the road is an idiot and that if they can do something stupid, its odds-on that they probably will....

this is pretty solid advice IMO. I too rode a motorcycle for several life defying years in London....then I crazily rode a scooter for several more years (an old vespa PX with almost no brakes). I still reckon that my motorcycle training (safety left, safety right etc) saves my life very regularly. Always assume the other roads users around you CANNOT see you.....even when they are looking straight (through) at you. Remember, they're in a very comfortable, luxurious, automatic, powerful machine listening to ColdPlay at level 5, eating an apple while on the mobile and drinking coffee. Not the cab/bus drivers though.

Hope you're on the mend Lucky.