Matthew_T
"Young and Ex-whippet"
- Location
- Prestatyn, North Wales
Today I was cycling along a shared use path with the road to my right. I was going along at a steady pace, nothing much happening with not a lot of traffic about.I notice a car coming towards me on the road but think nothing of it.
As it reaches me, there is a right hand bend in the road (I am going around the edge of the bend).
The car then drives into the kerb right besides me, kicking up dust and making a tire-rubbing noise. the whole car wobbles about and I feared that it was going to come onto the kerb.
I dont know if the driver was on the phone or falling asleep or something, but immediately after they just carried on driving.
It really shook me up and I had to stop for a few seconds to gather myself. I then contemplated how lucky I was, there was a drop kerb just cm from where he hit and if he had gone up that, I would have surely been hit. He was travelling at about 50mph (NSL road) and was driving a Ford Fiesta (if that has anything to do with it) so I would have surely had serious, if not life threatening injuries if he had hit me.
It really scared me when he hit the kerb.
As it reaches me, there is a right hand bend in the road (I am going around the edge of the bend).
The car then drives into the kerb right besides me, kicking up dust and making a tire-rubbing noise. the whole car wobbles about and I feared that it was going to come onto the kerb.
I dont know if the driver was on the phone or falling asleep or something, but immediately after they just carried on driving.
It really shook me up and I had to stop for a few seconds to gather myself. I then contemplated how lucky I was, there was a drop kerb just cm from where he hit and if he had gone up that, I would have surely been hit. He was travelling at about 50mph (NSL road) and was driving a Ford Fiesta (if that has anything to do with it) so I would have surely had serious, if not life threatening injuries if he had hit me.
It really scared me when he hit the kerb.
