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I had to go out this evening, and spent about 15 minutes fretting and fussing, very anxious about leaving the house. This was despite me having talked through the event with a few people, and being clear that there was nothing I did wrong.
What has made me most anxious, is that actually if I had followed best practice in my filtering into the ASL and placed myself directly in the traffic stream in front of the cab I would have been hit when it was shunted forwards. I have to remind myself it was a freak accident, I did nothing wrong and I am still alive.
Riding this evening was a relief, just to remind myself that it is in principle a safe activity. The danger I encountered was the kind of thing that would have been equally dangerous had I been on foot and crossing the road on foot.