I would love to ride a bike but there are too many idiots in cars. They make me nervous driving a 7,500 pound truck. No way am I going to be on a bike with these idiots. Last Sunday I had to work and on the way home in the afternoon I saw a car that had gone off the side of the road. I don't know why they went off the road but I saw a few skid marks. They could have been distracted, there were four people in the car, or someone may have run them off the road. A few miles down the road, I saw another spot where someone had recently run off the road. This road is mostly straight with only a few turns. I see people pass on this road all of the time. Many times it is illegal to pass but they do it anyway. The last car that passed me was in a passing zone but he almost had a head on collision with traffic. Insane.
My dad saw an bike accident years ago where a car pulled in front of a bike. The bike driver could do nothing but hit the back of the car. The bike and bike passenger were seriously hurt or killed. One was spazzing out on the ground after the accident. My dad thought they had broken their neck. For some reason, I pay attention to the news reports of cycle accidents. Many times it is the bikers fault, either drunk and/or driving too fast but a large percentage of the accidents were cars not seeing the biker...
Later,
Dan