On the commute home last night I had a collision with another cyclist. It was on a dedicated cycle lane next to a fairly busy road and from my direction a blind right hand bend.
By the time we saw each other there was no time to stop, i've broke hard and ended up laying the bike down to stop my self going into the main road but it the process completely took out her bike. So next thing bang,collision both hit the ground quite hard, but nether of us ended up on the road.
We both picked our selves up and checked over the bikes her front brake and come undone so I fixed this for her asked her if she was ok, she said her knee was a bit sore but she was all right so we exchanged pleasantries and apologies and went our separate ways.
Now on my way home I started to feel guilty. At the time I wasn't running a front light, its not totally dark on the way home yet, so I picked one up last night. Also didn't even think of getting the women's details to check that she and her bike were ok today, if we had bumped cars this is one of the first things you do.
So I guess the point of this is what would others have done. Just moments before I'd had a near miss with a car not indicating on a roundabout so was a little distracted which kind of makes me feel that this was my fault.
Any way pride and arse now bruised, but feeling somewhat better for getting this off my chest.
thank you for listening
That is all
Sam.

