Well Folks, just got back from picking up MP from work...took the long long long way home via the Adelaide Hills...perfect 23c day for a ride....All i can say is before i tell my little story, is that, all well, that end well!!!
Anyway, we are riding along a nice straight piece of road, plenty of peripheral vision, etc, as we come up to a junction, a t-junction, where i road comes onto the road we were riding on, at a right angle....a Car is sitting at this junction waiting to turn left onto this road, when another car behind it fails to stop, and slams into the other cars butt at about 60km/h...pushing this car straight out into the middle of the road, and right into my path...timing could not have been better....fortuneatly, i was watching the whole thing, was expecting the car to come my way, and i was not riding very fast, but...i did have to swerve across 2 empty(thankfully) lanes on the other side of the road to avoid being cleaned up...it was close, the car missed us by about 2feet!
At no point did i contribute to the accident, but we most definitely could of been part of it!
MP was a little shaken up when we got home...well, she said that she nearly pooped her pants! But i am remarkably calm about the whole thing! Dont think i would of been if the car hit us!
Some days you are unlucky, some days you are very lucky...today is one of the lucky ones for me!
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Anyway, we are riding along a nice straight piece of road, plenty of peripheral vision, etc, as we come up to a junction, a t-junction, where i road comes onto the road we were riding on, at a right angle....a Car is sitting at this junction waiting to turn left onto this road, when another car behind it fails to stop, and slams into the other cars butt at about 60km/h...pushing this car straight out into the middle of the road, and right into my path...timing could not have been better....fortuneatly, i was watching the whole thing, was expecting the car to come my way, and i was not riding very fast, but...i did have to swerve across 2 empty(thankfully) lanes on the other side of the road to avoid being cleaned up...it was close, the car missed us by about 2feet!
At no point did i contribute to the accident, but we most definitely could of been part of it!
MP was a little shaken up when we got home...well, she said that she nearly pooped her pants! But i am remarkably calm about the whole thing! Dont think i would of been if the car hit us!
Some days you are unlucky, some days you are very lucky...today is one of the lucky ones for me!
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