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Glad you weren't injured -- and glad you abandon the car ;-)

I was in one crash back as a child. That was a mass crash in the early evening, because most people didn't kept the braking distance -- our car was hit from behind. We drove home with a bent metal cutting into one wheel...

But I was also in two crashes with a bike. In one, back when I 'cycle-commuted' to school in then West Germany, I took a turn at speed, and found a car too close to the corner at the end -- the next moment I found myself on the asphalt beside the car, with my bike just falling down from the sky on my head. But only one teeth broke.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Mon Sep 10th, 2007 at 11:20:26 AM EST
Unfortunately falls are part of Cycling. I had two encounters with cars without major injury.

My worst fall was riding straight at 20 Km/h; my front wheel touched another guy's bike and that was it. I was 3 days without walking properly and 3 weeks without touching the bike. Even at those speeds one has to keep focused, just like behind the driving wheel.

luis_de_sousa@mastodon.social

by Luis de Sousa (luis[dot]de[dot]sousa[at]protonmail[dot]ch) on Mon Sep 10th, 2007 at 12:37:53 PM EST
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Yes, one of my hands is covered in small scars from when I was knocked off by a car into a patch of freshly graveled road. Fortunately I managed to get my hand between my face and the road, but I still have a few scars on my face from where gravel came up between my fingers Fortunately they have faded with age. I'm glad I'm away from all of the dual carriageways  and urban drivers now.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Sep 10th, 2007 at 12:56:41 PM EST
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I bear the shame and tell of my second crash... with a parking car on a straight road.

It was a few years after the first. I just began the climb, standing, on a steep uphill side road I took many times, when it started raining, so I looked straight down perpendicular to the asphalt...

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Mon Sep 10th, 2007 at 02:05:55 PM EST
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My mother did something similar, driving up a hill into the rising sun, she managed to drive into an electric milk float coming the other way.

her embarassment wasn't reduced when she told my father and I that "It came out of the sun at me" and the pair of us dissolved into giggles after a brief, futile attempt to keep a straight face.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Sep 10th, 2007 at 02:22:05 PM EST
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