Hit by a car crossing the street in a crosswalk...
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I can certainly understand the driver's point about the post blocking his view. These new cars with side curtain airbags have HUGE blind spots! As a motorcyclist situational awareness keeps me alive; but those damned posts in cars led to some unintended consequences! The size of the rear view mirrors as well. I've had a couple of near misses when I saw the feet of a pedestrian under the mirror.
Glad you were able to walk away
Glad you were able to walk away
PILOON
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You gave me goose bumps!
Once crossing a mall parking walking 3 abreast at night I heard TIK-TIK of wipers as we walked back to our motel.
An old jalopy, no lights one wiper was bearing down on us. Being the center guy the only place to go was to jump up and land on his hood.
Having landed in wet dirty water I requested that the driver pay my cleaning bill.
He told me to F--K off.
I reported him (he was warned and given 24 hrs to re consider) as hit and run.
When subpenaed the judge dropped the case! WHAT? Only the plaintiff can do that!
Court clerk handed me $500. and casually said that that entitled brat was the judge's son and that I did not stand a chance.
Nice justice system, equal to all!
Now this was hundreds of miles away from my beaten path which greatly influenced my decision.
Once crossing a mall parking walking 3 abreast at night I heard TIK-TIK of wipers as we walked back to our motel.
An old jalopy, no lights one wiper was bearing down on us. Being the center guy the only place to go was to jump up and land on his hood.
Having landed in wet dirty water I requested that the driver pay my cleaning bill.
He told me to F--K off.
I reported him (he was warned and given 24 hrs to re consider) as hit and run.
When subpenaed the judge dropped the case! WHAT? Only the plaintiff can do that!
Court clerk handed me $500. and casually said that that entitled brat was the judge's son and that I did not stand a chance.
Nice justice system, equal to all!
Now this was hundreds of miles away from my beaten path which greatly influenced my decision.
I'm wishing you a speedy recovery ur !
At the same time..... I'll add a vote for getting checked over by a doc. Something (your feet) that you use a lot every day need to be 100%.... a little physiotherapy now might be helpful, both short and long term.
Sports Medicine clinics can be a good resource, and a nagging injury sometimes be treated with acupuncture - I know a pro MX racer who is only walking normally today because of acupuncture treatments.
Here's hoping that you need none of the above, and just a bit of time to recover.
Distracted driving is a major problem, which is not helped by the disproportionally HUGE blindspots on many compact vehicles today - the station-wagons of the 1970's were greenhouses in comparison.
Rgds, D.
At the same time..... I'll add a vote for getting checked over by a doc. Something (your feet) that you use a lot every day need to be 100%.... a little physiotherapy now might be helpful, both short and long term.
Sports Medicine clinics can be a good resource, and a nagging injury sometimes be treated with acupuncture - I know a pro MX racer who is only walking normally today because of acupuncture treatments.
Here's hoping that you need none of the above, and just a bit of time to recover.
Distracted driving is a major problem, which is not helped by the disproportionally HUGE blindspots on many compact vehicles today - the station-wagons of the 1970's were greenhouses in comparison.
Rgds, D.
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You can say that again. That's one reason I love my car (1997 Volvo V90), its a wagon but it has amazing visibility and I can see the ground about 6 feet behind my back bumper. By comparison, you have to be 18 feet behind the bumper of a 2012 Santa Fe to see the ground.
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Right. Who needed back up cameras, park aid sensors and special mirrors when you could actually see out of your car? I knew within inches where each corner of those old cars was.
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Ultra! Just saw your post... sorry to hear about your accident as a fellow TBNer, and I hope you are recovering well! I am sitting here visualizing what happened and I cannot imagine what all must of went through your mind in that short amount of time.
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Dont get me wrong, I still have blindspot mirrors on my V90, but it amazed me the week I was driving the Santa Fe how bad the blindspots are. That must be why Ford has 4 cameras on the new F150...
One other interesting about my V90 is that it has a turning radius of 31.8 feet, so I can make a U turn in a standard 2 lane road (no K turn needed).
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Glad you are ok.
I have to agree with the blind spots in new cars. Its unreal how bad they are. My wife's car has blind spots on the front pillars. Its not bad but it is bad enough that when turning, if the other person is moving at a certain rate, they can stay in the blind spot. Scary.
We went to China recently and traffic over there is interesting to say the least. :shocked::laughing::laughing::laughing:
I don't know if what we saw is The Law on the books but it certainly is The Law on the street...
When driving, which we did not do, or walking across the street, DO NOT *** LOOK *** at the traffic.
Yes, you just read that right. :shocked:
:confused3::laughing::laughing::laughing:
If you look at the traffic, you do NOT have the right away and YOU are expected to yield.
Yeah, read that again. :laughing:
So what you do is look out of the corner of your eyes and just walk across the road. :shocked: Now, I would look to find a safe time to cross but once committed, you did not look directly at traffic. IF YOU DO, the vehicles WILL expect you to get out of the way and they WILL NOT slow down.
What makes this even worse, is that there are many motorcycles/scooters, and at night at least 1/3 of them DO NOT USE HEADLIGHTS! :shocked::laughing::laughing::laughing: They think the headlights will use gas so they do not turn on the lights at night. Did I mention there are NO street lights? :shocked:
At night what you end up with is dark roads, that are bumpy as all get out because they hand float the concrete, with the only light from store fronts, houses and car headlights, with motorcycles driving with out headlights, on roads that are not marked with traffic lanes, while all of the drivers and walkers not looking directly at each other. :shocked::shocked::laughing::laughing::laughing:
You hope you can hear the oncoming traffic but drivers will honk the horn when passing other vehicles AND the motorcycles honk at walkers to see if they want a ride. You can get a ride for an RMB or two. 6 RMB to the US dollar.
So there is constant background noise of honking horns as you try to cross the streets, while NOT looking at vehicles, but trying to see motorcycles without headlights at night. Great fun! :laughing::laughing::laughing:
One of the guys we were with has spent quite a bit of time in China and earlier in the year he was hit by a car. No damage to him but he did kick the car.
The man who owns the company we were visiting drove us to a few places. Whenever he would pull out on the secondary road, no traffic lanes marked, he would say, "Stay in the middle so they can pass you on the right and left." :confused3::shocked: When he first did this I thought he was talking to us but after the third or fourth time I figured he was reminding himself. :laughing: Cars and bikes WOULD pass him on the right and left. :shocked:
We took a bus trip to a bigger city, 75 cents for an hour trip in an express bus with AC. Can't imagine taking the NON AC bus. On the way back I lady in a car pulled out in front of the bus. She had both hands on the wheel, she NEVER looked at us when she pulled out into the road nor when the bus passed her. Eye forward the entire time. The bus driver honk the horn to tell everyone he was passing her even though this was a four lane road.
Twas an adventure I tell ya! :laughing::laughing::laughing:
Later,
Dan
I have to agree with the blind spots in new cars. Its unreal how bad they are. My wife's car has blind spots on the front pillars. Its not bad but it is bad enough that when turning, if the other person is moving at a certain rate, they can stay in the blind spot. Scary.
We went to China recently and traffic over there is interesting to say the least. :shocked::laughing::laughing::laughing:
I don't know if what we saw is The Law on the books but it certainly is The Law on the street...
When driving, which we did not do, or walking across the street, DO NOT *** LOOK *** at the traffic.
Yes, you just read that right. :shocked:
:confused3::laughing::laughing::laughing:If you look at the traffic, you do NOT have the right away and YOU are expected to yield.
Yeah, read that again. :laughing:
So what you do is look out of the corner of your eyes and just walk across the road. :shocked:
Now, I would look to find a safe time to cross but once committed, you did not look directly at traffic. IF YOU DO, the vehicles WILL expect you to get out of the way and they WILL NOT slow down. What makes this even worse, is that there are many motorcycles/scooters, and at night at least 1/3 of them DO NOT USE HEADLIGHTS! :shocked::laughing::laughing::laughing: They think the headlights will use gas so they do not turn on the lights at night. Did I mention there are NO street lights? :shocked:
At night what you end up with is dark roads, that are bumpy as all get out because they hand float the concrete, with the only light from store fronts, houses and car headlights, with motorcycles driving with out headlights, on roads that are not marked with traffic lanes, while all of the drivers and walkers not looking directly at each other. :shocked:
:shocked::laughing::laughing::laughing:You hope you can hear the oncoming traffic but drivers will honk the horn when passing other vehicles AND the motorcycles honk at walkers to see if they want a ride. You can get a ride for an RMB or two. 6 RMB to the US dollar.
So there is constant background noise of honking horns as you try to cross the streets, while NOT looking at vehicles, but trying to see motorcycles without headlights at night. Great fun! :laughing::laughing::laughing:
One of the guys we were with has spent quite a bit of time in China and earlier in the year he was hit by a car.
No damage to him but he did kick the car. The man who owns the company we were visiting drove us to a few places. Whenever he would pull out on the secondary road, no traffic lanes marked, he would say, "Stay in the middle so they can pass you on the right and left." :confused3::shocked:
When he first did this I thought he was talking to us but after the third or fourth time I figured he was reminding himself. :laughing: Cars and bikes WOULD pass him on the right and left. :shocked:We took a bus trip to a bigger city, 75 cents for an hour trip in an express bus with AC. Can't imagine taking the NON AC bus. On the way back I lady in a car pulled out in front of the bus. She had both hands on the wheel, she NEVER looked at us when she pulled out into the road nor when the bus passed her. Eye forward the entire time. The bus driver honk the horn to tell everyone he was passing her even though this was a four lane road.
Twas an adventure I tell ya! :laughing::laughing::laughing:
Later,
Dan
