the reluctant cyclist
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- Location
- Birmingham
I only got knocked off my bike again this morning!
Only trouble is I am not sure that it is also my fault too.
I was going over a pedestrian crossing on my bike, I was going over really slowly as I had just come up the subway and have started using this crossing to make a right turn onto a busy road. It's a dual carriageway and the first car had stopped and the lights were on red for the traffic but as I went another car on the outside lane of the dual carriageway jumped the light and hit me.
He didn't really damage my bike luckily as I have only just got it back from the last time but he scratched all the side of his car. I shouldn't really have been on the crossing on my bike but I don't think it would have made any difference if I had been walking he would have hit me anyway. I normally look really really carefully to make sure that the next car stops but for some reason this morning I didn't - I won't make that mistake again. I had to go home and get my handlebars straightened out and some sympathy too because it really shakes you up but I am okay now and back at my desk like a good little worker!
Only trouble is I am not sure that it is also my fault too.
I was going over a pedestrian crossing on my bike, I was going over really slowly as I had just come up the subway and have started using this crossing to make a right turn onto a busy road. It's a dual carriageway and the first car had stopped and the lights were on red for the traffic but as I went another car on the outside lane of the dual carriageway jumped the light and hit me.
He didn't really damage my bike luckily as I have only just got it back from the last time but he scratched all the side of his car. I shouldn't really have been on the crossing on my bike but I don't think it would have made any difference if I had been walking he would have hit me anyway. I normally look really really carefully to make sure that the next car stops but for some reason this morning I didn't - I won't make that mistake again. I had to go home and get my handlebars straightened out and some sympathy too because it really shakes you up but I am okay now and back at my desk like a good little worker!