As I found out by hitting one this evening.
I was riding in primary in the main carriageway towards the end of a queue of slowing traffic. As soon as the car at the end of the queue stopped, a bloke jumped out of the passenger side. I thought it lucky no-one was going down the cycle lane at that point because anyone who was would have been severely doored. The traffic, including the last car, started moving off so I started accelerating to join in the flow, at which point the bloke just ran full tilt across the road without looking - he was concentrating on a bus on the other side of the road that he was trying to catch.
3 brakes got jammed on hard as I turned sideways on to him. I hit him fairly lightly - he remained standing and I slowly fell over. I now have light road rash on my elbow, thigh and shin (not sure how I did that last one.) The bike seems OK, and the bloke, despite looking a bit confussed, seemed OK. He checked I was OK and then got in the queue for his bus.
You would have thought that someone in their forties would have learnt how to safely cross a road by now. If the road had been clear allowing me to go a lot faster, or if it had been a car bearing down on him, it could have been quite nasty. Oh well, sorry for posting more doom and gloom in commuting but it is my second worst incident in 13 years of cycle commuting...
I was riding in primary in the main carriageway towards the end of a queue of slowing traffic. As soon as the car at the end of the queue stopped, a bloke jumped out of the passenger side. I thought it lucky no-one was going down the cycle lane at that point because anyone who was would have been severely doored. The traffic, including the last car, started moving off so I started accelerating to join in the flow, at which point the bloke just ran full tilt across the road without looking - he was concentrating on a bus on the other side of the road that he was trying to catch.
3 brakes got jammed on hard as I turned sideways on to him. I hit him fairly lightly - he remained standing and I slowly fell over. I now have light road rash on my elbow, thigh and shin (not sure how I did that last one.) The bike seems OK, and the bloke, despite looking a bit confussed, seemed OK. He checked I was OK and then got in the queue for his bus.
You would have thought that someone in their forties would have learnt how to safely cross a road by now. If the road had been clear allowing me to go a lot faster, or if it had been a car bearing down on him, it could have been quite nasty. Oh well, sorry for posting more doom and gloom in commuting but it is my second worst incident in 13 years of cycle commuting...