^I've been in two collisions with cars while on a bike. First was a driver running a stop sign, second was on a road with no other traffic in sight where a van decided he wanted to pass me and in the process bumped me off the road onto an embankment. In both cases they were hit and runs. The former was at a pretty slow speed so I just fell, but in the second case I was pretty lucky not to be badly hurt.
Even if 99% of drivers are respectful and decent human beings behind the wheel, the more time you spend as a cyclist sharing the road with cars and trucks, the closer you approach certainty of some sort of incident.
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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
10 Ave doesn't have a protected (ie: physically separated) bike lane.
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I ride down 10th all the time and there is literally no problem there. There isn't enough traffic to cause one.