Lets here your stories. We'll include all other vehicles in with cars too - including tractors Trail_Rat.
Never.
But a clubmate was knocked off this morning (she's OK though).
a florist's van?
i got a lovely bouquet.
true story.
3 times and each time the drivers excuses get worse!
Once, car pulled out of side road and kocked me off, wrote off £200 bike, I was fine, their insurance paid out.
Avoided plenty more over the years I'd like to think!
I got knocked off by a silly bitch in a 'smart' coupe - fortunately no serious damage !
Got taken out by a motorbike a few years ago. He lost it on a wet road and as he slid along he took me with him. The thing that p1ssed me off most was the women in the car behind who saw it all, gave me abuse for holding her up by lying in the road bleeding!
I threw my bike at her car...
Yeah, on the approach to a mini roundabout, she pulled in and clipped my front wheel. I banged on the car, then followed her home and had a good rant at her.
An old man turned right infront of me when i was on my motorbike, went over the roof and landed pretty much on my feet. Was proper shook up! Only ended up with cuts/bruises on my leges from dragging over the roof as I went over, bike was pretty knackered tho :/
Been clipped a couple of times but never knocked off. A guy on a group ride a couple of weeks ago was a victim of a hit and run. Idiot driver never considered that the 29 other cyclists there would take down his number plate. He got picked up 20mins later.
TBH, I've probably had more incidents involving other cyclists than car drivers.
I was on my paperround on a shonky bike that the brakes didnt work on. I was on the path going down a steep hill and a bloke just opened his car door in front of me. I went straight into the inside part of the door. apparently he didnt look behind before opening the door.
Once, car turning right. Left a nice bodily shaped imprint on the windscreen!
Inches away from being hit by someone pulling out of a junction whilst p***ing around with a mobile phone. Almost wished I had been hit and that I'd made a mess out of the shiny new car that her Daddy probably just bought her.
Women drove straight onto a large and fairly busy roundabout without looking, despite the car in the other lane right next to her seeing me perfectly and not crashing into me, unlike her.
Some blood, swearing, and a little time later, I cycled off. No point trying to do anything. Idiot drivers will always be idiot drivers.
Just the once, sometime in 1994. "BLT" (remember them?) lights on the bike, so - bright! Approaching the exit from an amateur local football club. I looked at the driver. The driver looked at me. When I got level, he pulled out causing me to fall off onto the road in the face of an oncoming lorry. Luckily, the lorry stopped in time.
"Are you all right"?
I pride myself even today for the restraint I showed in ignoring the cretin...
Yep once when a car waited till I was very nearly up to the junction then turned right across my path leaving me no option but to ride straight into the side of his car with me going over the bonnet. If I'd have had time to brake I probably would have lost some fingers as the brake levers cut into the handlebars...
As I was lying in the road cussing my head off the passenger of the car came up to me and said the driver was sorry but he hadn't seen me and that his gran had just died..WTF????
I'd just had the bike resprayed and it was a writetoff. The ambulance men were joking with me that I had the loudest jersey on they had ever seen...
Turns out he was a provisional driver who didn't have anyone in the car who was qualified driver either oh and he had no insurance...Quel Surprise
The second time a dog ran into the clubrun straight into me, making me crash and bounce down the road, The owner tried to claim that I was riding a bike that was too big for me and that I couldn't handle the bike properly - I was at the time riding international stage races etc for Wales and all my bikes were custom built for me....Oh and cos I was a girl they reckoned I panicked when I saw the dog... I never saw the dog, just the tarmac!!!
And used to have at least one near miss a day when I used to commute to and from Brum everyday...ah those were the days!!!
after being t boned by the florist at about 25mph (her not me) i shakily picked myself and my shattered bike up from one of the busiest roundabouts in central shuff, bleeding and in pain.
only for her to say 'i didn't see you, i can see now you have a few lights on, but you [i]really[/i] should wear a hi vis vest'
ah. cheers for that.
Just the once. Coming down a hill on my Cervelo TT bike at a rapid pace in the tuck position, when a car pulled out from a junction 🙁 snapped the bike on impact when I t-boned the car, and I went flying.
The main road running parallel to this road was gridlocked. They sent the air ambulance! but just as it landed, the road ambulance arrived and scraped me up from the tarmac. Always wanted a ride in a helicopter.
I went over the bonnet of a van. I was following a large van who turned left and as I was in a rush to get to work I swung over to the right to overtake him. Unfortunately I couldn't be seen by the smaller van turning right out of the junction so he pulled out and I went flying. That was a few years ago and I am a lot more aware of traffic since then.
only knocked off once (I think). Car overtaking dangerously in Edinburgh city centre pulled in fast right into me, piled me into into a bus shelter luckily it was that plastic glass stuff so I bounced off and hit the deck, bruises and superficial wounds and a little bike damage - was able to ride again (albeit painfully) the next day.
twice.
first - some idiot coming from the opposite direction turning into the sidestreet which i happened to be riding past. didn't see me apparently. managed to put a huge dent in his bonnet and scare the $hit out of him by acting like a mentalist. wasn't hurt badly.
second - another idiot in front on mobile moving as though turning right, me in cycle lane with bags of space and more speed. next thing he cuts across me in what i can only presume was him getting off the road to park up and finish his call. it hurt but not serious. he shouted. i shouted louder. he crapped himself reversed out of the car park and into the person behind then drove off (double hit & run). reported it to the 5-O but never heard anything back, even though i gave them the reg and left a statment. the police are crap!
Twice,
first time someone cuts me up in front of me on a roundabout and the promptly stops so I rode into the back of him and fall off (bent forks slightly and bust light) - he drives off - probably didn't notice.
second time someone pulls out on a roundabout and I hit their door and bounce into the road - a bit of an apology (didn't see me despite light shining at about high driver eye level) but nowt else. bike ok slightly torn pannier
Just once. Car pulled into a roundabout without seeing me then the driver braked as she spotted me which resulted in me skidding sideways into the car (I think if she'd accelerated we would have missed). Luckily everything was okay apart from her door and she was very apologetic.
I got clipped and fell off (only got stung by nettles), clocked the reg no, saw the guy two weeks later when I was in a van, chased him into a car park, received grovelling apology.
The lesson? Don't cut up a cyclist in Cornwall - it's too small a county!
Dec '97 I was a thin and fit triathlete , just worked out my training plan for the next year and planned to up my distances.
I was about to leave work but noticed my front light was a bit dim so replaced the batteries with fresh ones and set of for home. 5 minutes up the road a car driver decided they couldn't see the cyclist on the pink bike wearing dayglo from head to toe so they made a right turn across the front of me.
At the time of impact I was doing around 25mph , contact was made at the rear passenger door/window and my left knee shattered the window as I sumersaulted the car. As you do I attempted to stand up and thought 'ooh that feels weird' looked down to see a huge hole where my kneecap had previously been (bluergh).
To tell the truth i was a bit more concerned about the bike but that was trashed , the next 4 months were spent on crutches with a ruptured patella tendon then after 6 months they opened me up again to remove the wire that held the tendon whilst it knit back together and I had another 3 weeks on crutches. Give me broken bones anyday soft tissue damage takes so long to heal.
3 times in the last 5 years; twice in Glasgow and once in Wilmslow. Each time it was what the CTC now call a SMIDSY ("sorry mate I didn't see you").
No serious injuries, thank goodness. I do kinda think that it's only a matter of time though....
I got knocked off in town. A woman in a Mini decided to veer from the right turn-only lane into the lane going straight on. The only thing that stood between those two lanes was me being alongside her bonnet at the time. Didn't seem to stop her. Thank god there was nothing in the left hand lane. Otherwise I wouldn't be typing this.
This all took place in full view of a traffic cop. He sauntered over, while I lay there screaming, asked her if SHE was ok, then told me to kindly stop swearing so much.
Oh... I do beg your ****ing pardon
Once. Knocked clean out from behind here in Leighton Buzzard, though I was riding from that London at the time. Left unconcous driver didn't stop. For some reason I think it was one of those Golf convertables, the Bronze ones with white roof.
Not bad considering the years I commted 74 miles a day.
Driver pulled out of a T junction in front of me. I went over the bonnet. Apparently he didn't see me because I didn't have lights on. Although if I never did can an explaination of how he managed to see I didn't have lights on when he didn't see me. It was broad daylight, about 45 minutes after sunrise on a clear day on a straight road. I had actually left my lights on by accident as well although the front one broke in the crash.
I've been clipped by a Polish woman too. She tried to overtake me on a narrow humpback bridge and got scared by the oncoming lorry and tried squash me into a wall. I don't think she even realised as she looked confused when I caught up with her in traffic and had a word about 20m further on.
I was nearly hit by a guy doing the same dodgy overtaking but saw this one in advance so braked before he moved left, lucky I did as he cut in front of me, mounted the curb and crashed into the bank. Not a crash but a proper brown trouser moment as he locked up and lost control about a foot away from me.
This is over about 5 years commuting in two different areas of the country.
Been knocked of my bike by other cyclists many times. Mostly by them just stopping but moe by them either overtaking then turning.
1.Car door opened on me and over the bars - was a kid on my paper round on my BMX
2. Car turns right on me at a set of lights did not see me at all and only reacted when I screamed took me out and wrecked bike wheels and forks. Very apologetic and replaced the bike.
3. Mini roundabout car on my left looked straight at me stopped then pulled out on me once I was too close to stop– deliberate by a young lad I had to go wrong way round roundabout and bollard to avoid him he gave me the w@nker wave and drove off he got 200 yards and held up at the lights I keyed his car and started kicking the sh1t out of it screaming come on then in a sort of taxi driver style ...I was only young [early 20’s at the time] he did not get out I am not proud of that but it was deliberate and I nearly hit a car head on avoiding him.
4. Cycling on a country lane when a car braked and skidded into stationary me pushing me into a thorny bush [SFB to the forum please]. He got out in full roadie in lycra and apologised and was upset beyond words. Just repeating I hit a cyclists I am one of those ****ts it was funny and to be fair they had just gravelled the road hence he skidded when he broke.
Heading downhill in a bus lane, solid traffic on my right hand side. It was about 6pm, dark but I had 3 front lights (one helmet mounted) and 4 rear. Next thing an oncoming car had turned right through a gap in the traffic without looking into the bus lane, I hadn't seen the gap cos of the position of the cars. I slammed into the side of the car (couldn't avoid it) and came off, landing in the middle of the line of stationary traffic, the driver jumped out as well. Amazingly not a scratch on me, my bike or my clothing, his car was fine too.
He was really apologetic, I was very shaken but otherwise OK. We both went our respective ways, him still apologising profusely.
No-one else got out of their cars to help or offer to be a witness though. T0ssers.
Got knocked off by a crazy woman who cut in front of me to turn into a petrol station. Sort of knew it was coming as she was on the other side of the road waiting to do a uturn, I thought then 'she's going into the side of me when she does that uturn', she didn't but did so further up the road.
She blamed me for 'not slowing down', yeh like I know that the car behind me is going to do a left turn across my path. She went mental, I called the cops. No damage done but she seriosly pissed me off.
Also got knocked off when a car decided to mount the pavement at a junction because they didn't want to wait in the queue of cars that were going right and she was going left. I stumbled as the side of her car hit me and fell on to the pavement. Few bruises, female driver burst into tears, etc.
In both cases I believe any serious injury to me was prevented by expecting something to happen and being ready to take action.
Lots of near misses though, but you come to expect them.
Oh and I did go into an open car door but I could have prevented that. I was filtering up a line of traffic sitting at lights, I was in the cycle path, driver of car parked on cycle path walks back to car, sees me coming but instead of waiting till I pass, they open the door, get in and leave the door open which completely blocks my path. I just carried on into the door leaving tyre marks and a footprint on their nice cream interior. They weren't very happy, I thought it was quite funny.
[i]He was really apologetic, I was very shaken but otherwise OK. We both went our respective ways, him still apologising profusely.[/i]
To be honest you were both to blame. When I ever filter down the side of traffic I always expect a car to pull into my path and reduce my speed.
Not wanting to sound smug but no, I've always been able to avoid it, though one or two have been VERY close!
yep, a guy did a U turn without checking his mirrors, in a queue of stationary traffic I was overtaking, over the roof, landed on my head leaving me unconscious. The guy drove off, then came back when he saw the state of his brand new car to kick the sh*t out of me whilst I was coming round and lying in the middle of the road!
Thankfully a passer by pulled him off, when the passer by told him the Police were on the way and that'd he'd be a witness to the whole thing he legged it leaving his car!? Nice Guy eh...
I have been hit on 5 different occasions resulting from bruises and a bent crank to being knocked out and writing off my bike.
The more you ride on the road the more likely it is you will get hit..
mysterymove - have you still got his car?
[i]they had just gravelled the road hence he skidded when he broke.[/i]
Lol, what did he break?
[i]The more you ride on the road the more likely it is you will get hit.. [/i]
From a statistical point of view that's nonsense. I would say the more you ride, and the more others ride, then you are in fact les likely to be involved in an accident.
coffeeking - Member
Not wanting to sound [b]stupid[/b] but no, I've always been able to avoid it
Coming down hill on national cycle route just south of Strathyre when a tractor pulls out at last minute. Braked and managed to get foot onto tractor tyre which propelled me right over the tractors bonnet, guy didn’t even see me (I was even wearing high vis gear), said I should have stopped and let him out, police took a different opinion to him. Got called evil knievel for a while.
I was turning right in Todmorden and could hear a woman accelerating a mini metro behind me.(It was in the 80's)
I had my arm out to indicate but I could tell she hadn't got a clue and kept coming.I was commited and had to carry on.
Big T-bone job but I've got to say the adrenaline rush was amazing.
No major injuries though but my Carlton Sovereign was goosed
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GW, unfortunately not, the Police took the car! wouldn't have wanted it anyway it had a perfect bike/body imprint down the drivers side ;o)
Twice
A slow mo roll into my back wheel by a woman as I puffed up a hill past a junction. She just went a bit early or expected me to be moving quicker. The smooth bit of road was close to the white lines. No damage.
Overtaking stationary/slow traffic a Punto decides to U turn without consulting mirror/expecting anyone to be there. Ambulance to the hospital with a neck brace and fracture around elbow and grazed face. Fifth gear on the Nexus hub still not shifting perfectly. Driver was not insured for the car he was driving.
Once a few years back I was stopped at a roundabout, rolled forwards decided not to chance the gap as traffic was too fast. Woman behind drove into me forcing me towards on-coming traffic, I jammed the brakes on and set my feet down on the road whilst screaming expletives. She stopped, I dragged my bike to the side of the road totally un-nerved questioned her sanity with the aid of a few more expletives tried to cycle but the rear wheel was very buckled, and I had some nice gouges in my legs form the v8 pedals.
Going to school aged about 14, straight ahead through lights at junction. Old woman turning right never saw me, I went flying over bonnet. Bike totalled, I had 2 witnesses. Promised me she'd pay for damages, police turned up but didnt even offer me a lift home (3 miles with broken bike). Turned out son was a copper - I never saw a penny.
1984. Cycling on the A20 from Maidstone to Bearsted. Woman in a Volvo estate pulls out of a road on the right striaght in front of me. I'm doing about 25 mph. I brake and shove the bike into the gutter missing her by inches. She accelarates and I breath a sigh of relief.
Then she turns left across me to park diagonally. I plant my foot square in the rear passenger door and fall over quietly. get up, check for damage - none. Knock politely on her window to get her details - she drives off.
I called the police. They went round to interview her. She claims that she left the scene of the accident because she was frightened. OK, I can see that - really scarey being in a 2 ton Volvo being hit be a 10 stone boy on a bike. Not scarey at all being hit by a 2 ton Volvo.
GW - why does that sound stupid to you? You really have some odd logic.
hit from behind on a fairly wide country road, returning from a night ride just after midnight, high viz clothes, two rear lights, from the first i heard of the engine approaching behind me i kinda knew what was coming so i was right over on the left.
they didnt stop, so i suspect they were drunk and either didnt even notice, or thought the consequences of stopping were too much.
eventually picked myself out of the road found my smashed glasses and rode home covered in blood from head/face wounds, sprained wrist and badly smashed knee/leg
Two and a half
First time someone opened a car door on me and I got catapulted under a Volvo coming the other way (beyond soft tissue damage and scrapes from the sump plate got away without major injury).
Second a van driver managed 'not to see' four of us on Norton Roundabout in Sheffield and took out the back wheels of two of us.
Last time I was given the choice of a head on collision with some teenager coming round a corner on the wrong side of the road or going over a wall (five foot drop into a snow drift).
[i]To be honest you were both to blame. When I ever filter down the side of traffic I always expect a car to pull into my path and reduce my speed. [/i]
Technically I wasn't "filtering", I was in a bus lane (restricted to bikes and buses at that time), the cars were in their own lane and I was already going slowly - no more than 15mph.
The driver pulled straight through the line of traffic a few feet in front of me. You know when you let someone pull out in front of you, the driver usually waves thanks and floors it out without looking - you've let him go so it must be clear is the way of thinking. This guy did that - floored it across a separate lane without looking and straight into my path, I couldn't avoid him.
I did ask him what he'd have done if it was a bus heading down the hill and he hadn't seen that... He admitted he hadn't looked. 100% his fault.
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My intended route in green. Looking back from x, looking back lots at y and y with a view to cross the sliproad. The only things I can see then are the white lorry and the blue Punto, both well beyond the start of the slip road, not indicating, obviously going straight on, so I set off over the sliproad to rejoin the carriageway.
I hadn’t seen the dickhead in the red 4x4 overtaking the lorry, and I was a bit surprised to find myself being hit by him in the purple area as he tried to make the sliproad over the hatchings.
I lost a fair of skin from my back and shoulders and everywhere else (not skin graft time, but quite a large acreage off blood and weeping grazes) stiches in the head (no helmet).
Luckily, everyone stopped. The guys in the lorry and the punto both said they’d been watching me and that I’d done everything right. The guy in the Punto was on his way to Frimley Park hospital anyway, so he gave me a lift with the bike. The driver of the 4x4 went to write his number on my hand, then didn’t. I think he got waved off by his mate. I was concussed, so wasn’t really in a position remember things or insist on anything. They said they’d see me at the hospital. And didn’t.
Got patched up, rode back home again. Police couldn’t traced the driver, as I couldn’t remember enough of the reg number.
Could have been a lot worse, could have ended up being deaded, given the circumstances. I’m still confused about which bit of the car hit me The bike was pretty much fine, apart from a bent brake lever and a broken squeaky tortoise.
Tell a lie, I've had three road related incidents:
Twice, nudged from behind [SFB to the forum etc] at roundabouts by drivers looking right and continuing to roll forward. Second time, I turned around and saw the passenger say to the driver "you've just hit that cyclist". Same roundabout, opposite junctions.
Only other incident was a pedestrian - chap stepped straight into my path. turns out he was blind (no stick or dog, though) and was trying to cross by what little he could see and sound. I was his silent assasin.
Yep, last year i was knocked off by a white van driver! i wasnt hurt badly just bruised ribs and hip. ripped gloves and endura jacket. Took 2 days of work. He paid in cash for all ripped stuff and my missed time at work! I know this must be rare but it was an accident pure and simple.
Not in the last 15 years. But the 15 before that saw quite a lot of car & hitting the deck action! The main causes were Bristol drivers & me being younger(less careful) & fitter.
Though the worst one was a full on hit and run by a drunk driver, (he got caught & jailed, mostly for previous record I suspect) that resulted in me being punted over the roof of a parked car and landing headfirst on the road without a helmet.
I Spent 1 hour out for the count & woke up to bleeping sounds and an inability to move. That really freaked me out as I thought I was paralysed but it was just the fact I was strapped down to a spine board.
Spent Easter drinking through a straw covered in bandages, still suffer from sinus problems caused by the crash & the repair to the bridge of my nose is a bit scar-tastic.
Took me months to feel anything other than terror about riding on the road, still not the most confident in traffic so I tend to plan my routes carefully to avoid roads I see as dangerous.
Ok, Coffeeking, maybe you're a jedi, from the Matrix or have some other "special" powers but my odd logic tells me that it's far more likely you are simply deluded in thinking YOU somehow have an ability to avoid unforseen freak accidents.
stupid/foolish/naive whatever, you have little to be smug about, that's for sure 8)
That looks well nasty nedrapier. I wasn't knocked off my bike but more scooped up. I was wanting to turn right but there was a car behind me not overtaking. As I decided to signal and begin my right hand turning she decided to overtake so I don't think it was really anyones fault. There was indecision from both parties then decision at the wrong moment too. I was left sprawled on the bonnet of her Volvo with my bike hanging from the radiator grill by the right pedal.
Just once - Land rover decided to pull out of a line of stationary traffic whilst i was overtaking down the RH side.
Difficult to say who was at fault (him for pulling out without signalling and checking mirrors or me for overtaking) and luckily i just rolled across the other side of the road which was empty at the time.
Walked away with minor bruising.
had bottles thrown at me, for no reason, had people desperate to overtake me on my road bike, only to turn left 10 ft later.
I hit a horse once, in the midrif, as I had my head down and pushed on through the pain of a long(ish) hill in the New Forest, only to find myself on the floor with a horse looking down at me with a slightly affronted look on its face.
I got properly hit and runn'd by a couple of drunks in a white van in N Ireland about 18 years ago.
The driver honked on the horn then drove into my back wheel sending me into the brambly hedge. The car driver behind witnessed the lot and took down the reg of the van.
Police were called and apprehended the van.
Both occupants were drunk; they had no insurance on the van; BUT as it couldn't be proved which one was driving at the time the police took no action FFS!
Apart from some scary scratches a trashed jacket, back wheel and helmet I was OK but no thanks to the Police
5 proper, had a few wing mirror/habdlebar interactions when people have pulled left while I was already there.
1 Women turned onto the road I was on, pedal scraped her car (big flatties)
2 Women pulled out of stationary traffic I was overtaking (me over the front wing, bruising and grazes)
3 Guy did a U-turn from a parked position I just bumped into the side of him, he continued, his rear wheel dragged my front wheel under - screwed wheel (paid for by him)
4 Guy pulled out of side road onto road I was on, me off, bruised ankle broken seatpost (paid for by him)
5 Guy took offence to being called a cock (he was driving dangerously whilst texting) drove into back of me wrote off my rear wheel then ran away, had to claim on my insurance, hoping they'd track him down for it - nope.
Oh yeah when I was a kid I did similar to AndyRT but into parked car, face/bonnet not nice, car was fine 6 then.
I broke both arms, my right ankle, dislocated my shoulders, right knee cap and had some brain swelling after being smoked by a car driver at a roundabout. It was an older chap in a big BMW, and a pretty busy island, he didn't stop for the island just slowed and continued thinking it was clear and hit the side of me just behind my legs on the back wheel. Apparently he just didn't see me, despite the fact I had a hi-vis jacket on and was lit up like a xmas tree. To be fair I have no recollection of seeing him either; this said I have pretty much no recollection of waking up that morning, cycling off to work or the 48 hours following the off!
Twice for me:
First was riding a time trial only to wake up lying on the ground, bike wrecked and lots of pain in my arm and hip. Turns out a car clipped me with his wing mirror leaving bits stuck in my arm causing the pain there. The pain in my hip was because a small piece of bone broke off my hip. My minute man stopped and called an ambulance from a nearby phone box, driver didn't stop and was never caught.
Second on the road bike approaching a zebra crossing, bloke in a car over takes me then realises that there's an old woman crossing the road so he brakes hard and slides into me (I'm stopping having seen the old lady). Bike driven over and destroyed, I fell off sideways as I realised he was going to hit me so minor bruising from glancing blow. The old lady collapsed , the policeman walking down the road runs over calls an ambulance for the old lady who'd had a heart attack and arrests the driver.
Insurance (car drivers) paid out for bike and 'good will gesture'.
Hit one of those new Renault Megane Scenic kid-carriers. Bounced right back off it! Lovely soft and squigy thing. If you're going to have a collision with something, then I recommend one of them.
coffeeking - Member
Not wanting to sound smug but no, I've always been able to avoid it, though one or two have been VERY close!
I think you've been lucky 've been able to avoid 99.9% of the times people have come close to hitting me. It wasn't lack of skill or foresight that stoped me being able to avoid it. Sometimes there is just nothing you can do unless you are prepared to crawl past every junction or wait in every cue of traffic. Still not even that would help those who are hit from behind.
5, but having commuted on and off in London for 25 years, not that surprising, worst due to filtering.
(1) Filtered up nearside of lorry, small van turned across in front of lorry into a driveway. Managed to steer in driveway too but not quite quickly enough and launched myself across bonnet and landed in rockery (wore helmet after that and learnt some road craft.). Forks bent but front wheel survived intact.
(2)& (3) Two black cabs taxis, both pulling out without indicating, one from a pickup and one into the right turn lane I was occupying. Saw both happening and as a result only glancing blows with no significant damage.
(4) Filtered up near side to lights, unfortunately they changed as I got to the front and a left turning car cut in front. Managed to turn with it, but my drop bars got hooked up by the wing mirror and I was dumped - that hurt the most. Bike was fine.
(5) Filtering up a jammed road but on a marked cycleway, SUV turned right across road in front of me, managed a slight turn but not enough, launched over bonnet but hit side fairly hard because it was an SUV. Bars and stem totalled but rest of bike survived.
I also ran into the back of car once in France but that was certainly my fault and was the only time I was taken away in an ambulance.
Anyone have a crash on the bike involving a vehicle where it was their fault not the drivers?
fallible.......moi?
I've gone into the back of a couple of cars, once accelerating expecting car to do same, other riding slowly in lane and looking back to see if I could change lane. Neither driver bothered, I may have damaged second (trcuk actually) but there were about 500 other dents in the back of it.
Anyone else seeing the red mist just reading these stories?
Hit by a car from behind on straight road in broad daylight 2 years ago. Woman driver doing about 40 hit my arse with her wing mirror. I backward somersault and land on road on head/shoulder. When she gets out of car tells me her mobile distracted her. She decided not to tell that to police when they arrived. I did but they decided not to investigate further or prosecute.
I get a ride in ambulance with blues on, strapped to spinal board. Nothing broken but still have shoulder pain despite physio. Not got any compensation yet either, although CTC solicitors still working on it.
[i]Anyone have a crash on the bike involving a vehicle where it was their fault not the drivers? [/i]
Well I rode into the back of a car on Monday evening cause I set off too quick from the lights then the driver in front applied their brakes. No damage done though and the driver apologised! as I did.
I know a guy who rode into the back of a parked van, his face was a bit of a mess.
[i]Anyone else seeing the red mist just reading these stories? [/i]
I try not too.
Funny story last week though. Idiot driver of tipper truck parked in cycle lane, parked very far out in lane and then gets in cab as I approach and leaves door open taking up almost all of whats left of the road. Gave the fat git a look of disgust. Further up the road same truck passes me then pulls into cycle path then slows down to piss me off, I play the game for a while and he can see me in his wing mirror. Pass a road on the left and I move to the middle of the truck which is full of old furniture and sit right up his arse and he didn't have a clue where I disappeared to. Sit behind him while he accelerates and get a nice tow. I then moved to the left so he could see me again and gave hime a cheery wave. Fanny.
i was riding on my tri bars down northdeeside road on saturday - tractor came up behind. over took got along side - took him longer than he thought as i was nicking on - cars came towards him and he swept me off the road onto the grass verge with his trailer - cars behind were beeping at him and going mental . caught up with him letting his load of cows out in a field just outside braemar and gave him a piece of my mind and got a SMIDSY out of him ... **** -
I’ve had a few that were the drivers fault...
Guy pulled out on me from a side street which I kind of anticipated so had slowed down he then stopped blocking my way completely to see if there was any traffic coming the other way at which point I road in to the back wing... He paid after the threat of going through insurance.
Had a whole load of clips and near misses I was thinking of wearing a headcam and compiling them all to the sound track of Benny Hill... In fact every near miss I have I get Benny Hill theme tune stuck in my head.
Oh and obviously non that were my fault:-)
[i]Obi_Twa - Member
Anyone have a crash on the bike involving a vehicle where it was their fault not the drivers?[/i]
I'll say - I've ploughed into at least three parked cars over the years, usually when fiddling components or wondering where my riding buddies have got to. I've written off bikes, ended up in hospital & everything. Best one was piling down a hill one night in the rain, vision blurred by the street lights & rain on my glasses & head down to keep dry. When I looked up there was a car a foot in front, didn't even have time to react. When I'd slid down the rear window into a heap on the floor (very tangled up in my bent frame) I noticed 10 or so people with puzzled looks on their faces who had been waiting at the bus stop next to me. I was so embarrassed I just got up, picked up my bike and walked off.. then fainted about 100 yards further down the road..
many years ago before learnt to ride very defensively
accelerated out of side street straight at me as i passed on the main rd
reacted enough to lift leg up as bonnet came towards me - thrown to other side of road and it was a wide road - hit bike hard enough to crack bottom bracket axle
lesson learnt was eye contact and don't forget to get the number plate - the guy wrote down a false address promising to pay for the repair when i got it sorted - eternally grateful to guy with an estate car that stopped and let me bleed on his seat while giving me a lift home
lost count of number of times i've left the road though to avoid a collision
One. Riding home on a sunday morning after night out, maybe ever so slightly hung over as a student. me and a taxi turn onto a street in edinburgh. I'm on the right hand side (to turn right) of a three lane one way road, taxi is on the far left(to turn left). taxi then decides to park on the right hand side of the road. I slide fairly forcably into his drivers door. Amazinly, the bike was fine, I was fine if somewhat shocked, but his door had a large hole where my pedal had gone through. I shouted a little abuse at him, then realised I didn't want this to go any further due to me being potentially over the limit and left.
this thread is now ready for yesterdays potential cycle commuter to email to his missus.
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Not wanting to sound smug but no, I've always been able to avoid it, though one or two have been VERY close!
Me too - tens of thousands of miles - last 10 years commuting in London, Nottingham and Derbyshire, plus using a bike as my main form of transport between the ages of about 8-18.
I'm sure there is an element of luck, but there is also an element of assuming the worst of all the other drivers which I think helps a lot. Oh and not riding like a **** is useful too (not going through red lights / down the left of lorries, filtering when you can't see if there are cars on the side roads etc.)
The few times I've had close calls (I reckon about once per year / 3000 miles), whilst it might not have been 'my fault', I could see what I did wrong in not anticipating the idiot driver - for example deciding too late that I needed to stop at a roundabout, resulting in someone behind nearly rear ending me, or assuming that the person in the side road must have seen my 20W front helmet light pointing directly at him.
Touch wood obviously - hoping I don't get knocked off on the way home today now.
Joe
[i] I was his silent assasin[/i]
Bit jovial for having killed someone 😉
Twice, that I can recall.
Once was my fault, rode out in front of a Golf. Long-ish story, which I won't go into. That was on a MTB ride.
Second was fairly recent on a commute - stupid bint in a Mini signalled to go into a garage, didn't go in. Turned indicator off and then swung into the exit. I was ready though, so it was a gentle nudge which frightened her more than me.
well apart from my number 6 I clipped a taxi, he pulled out from parked without indicating I just managed to swerve right to avoid him, instead of slowing down I kept going and as he passed me I pulled in behind only for him to slam on (and I mean a proper emergency stop) for someone at a zebra crossing, I was still stunned from 1st incident to react and my bar end* clipped the back of his car as I sailed passed on his left. No injuries, he was driving like a nob and nearly killed me but my fault I clipped him in the end.Anyone have a crash on the bike involving a vehicle where it was their fault not the drivers?
* this was the early 90's
Given the mileage I do, I'm still surprised it's only happened the once: motorist pulled out into the road from being parked without checking behind him properly and I crashed into his rear off-side door leaving a nice, me-shaped dent in his car. Cue me ranting about the (non) usage of his mirrors, and much laughing/pointing by nearby Chav-scum. Luckily, neither I nor my bike was badly hurt.
Many, many, many near misses, though...