A two-crash day (Comments: 0)

This morning I was driving for the first time in weeks because I had to go to a meeting at a place where I couldn’t change clothes. On the way to put gas in my car, I saw a cyclist get hit by a car. The cyclist was riding on the wrong side of the road and the car pulled out of the Sunoco station on South Clinton and ran into him. The cyclist (who of course had no helmet) was knocked out of his seat, but he managed to keep hold of the handlebars and keep his bike mostly upright. The car should have seen him, because its nose was out in the road, but the driver checked in the expected direction of traffic and then pulled out. The cyclist moved around the car and continued down the street — on the wrong side.

This afternoon, the wonderful Kent mentioned a site called How To Not Get Hit By Cars. This morning’s cyclist suffered a “Wrong-Way Wallop.”

On the way home (on my bike this time), I saw a car coming off 490 run into another car on the Culver Road overpass. The “whackee” went through a red light, but my guess is that will be hard to prove and the whacker will take the insurance hit. This happened about 5 feet from me. I’ve never seen a car accident from the saddle before. It’s a lot more immediate and visceral.

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