Bay Arean
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True, this is hilariously funny
Ouch, it is bad that you were in this collision. Just curious, why did you have to cross the double yellow? You said the lady made "a right" with her wheel... yellow lines are only on the left side. Keep in mind, sometimes if drivers start signaling with the flasher, that means they might be intent on taking you out.
Sorry, I wrote that WRONG! For this one time, I will blame the concussion (which left me double-visioned for a day and a half) and kinda out of it.. She made a sharp LEFT, pushing me over the double yellow into oncoming traffic, which mercifully was open at the moment.. I don't know where I landed because I was knocked out and people helped me up and rolled my bike away. I think that I landed on my right side, because that's where the most damage to me is, and the repair guy (it ended up back at Hattar, where I bought it) said that the rear right footpeg and axle nut are twanked back pretty good.
I was lane-sharing to her LEFT with plenty of room and had passed two other cars. As I approached about her driver's side door, she veered into me. No time to do anything. While driving home yesterday and passing spot from opposite direction, I saw her brake skid marks running an angle out of her lane and over into incoming traffic. I have the laceration on my leg from her car. No, no flasher, nothing. No place for her to turn, like a road or turnaround. She was either trying to see ahead, or showing me she wasn't going to be passed, or she just panicked and steered the wrong way when she saw me. I was too woozy to talk to her. A VERY nice man came his business car and said "if you need a witness, here's my card." I keep thinking he must be a rider even tho' he was in a car.
To be clear, I NEVER lane share to the right on this two-lane road. I reported here a while back seeing a guy doing that, in the bicycle lane, only to be ticketed when he hit Orinda.
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