sometimes you're the windshield

[dathon]

I saw a woman on a bike get into an accident with car while I was running this morning.  She saw it coming and was able to slow down and brace herself for it, so the end result was that she bent her front wheel and hurt her wrist as she collided with the rear passenger door.  The bicyclist had the right of way in the weird intersection, and the

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[sandyosullivan]

On what I hope is a totally related issue... but another one about cyclists and drivers and pedestrians... the shared zone one... I wish they didnt have one. If a cyclist is on the footpath, well I cant guess at that, but with shared zones (like that one that I take to the market) I cant wear an ipod or move about normally at all, because I have to think about whether a bike is going to come speeding past and knock me over, and my experience is that they do tend to act like I should have been paying attention... and I guess I think I was ambling down looking at a pretty view, and assumed I didnt have to worry about being run over or causing an accident. It's a funny one, and again the main issue for me is that the same attitude that some cyclists (like the ones that I'm talking about here, not me when I was a cyclist or good people) think that should be uber-protected compared to pedestrians, like they are more fragile... the reality is that one is going high speed and the other is virtually standing still and not engaged in a high level of velocity and they are the ones that need to be more careful etc... argh I think I'm saying that shared zones scare me, or at the very least make me feel like I can't be a proper pedestrian.