A friend of mine was knocked off his bike while he was cycling home one night. Fortunately he was fine and got away with just a broken collar bone. He had always insisted that cycling was perfectly safe and that one should not be worried about using a bike in London. He stands by that opinion despite having suffered an accident himself and stopping to help out at another cycling accident in the past.
The policeman that attended the scene said there was nothing much my friend could have done to prevent the accident; it was the driver's fault. My friend said he felt lucky he was a bit of a slow-poke on his bike- just a fraction faster and he would have been hit side on by the car. As it was, his front wheel was badly damaged and he was just slightly damaged. He also said that the sound of another oncoming car made him get up from the ground, on to which he was thrown, very quickly in case he got run over by another vehicle. It caused his family, particularly his four year old son, much worry. The female passenger in the vehicle that hit him was a little bit worse for wear as well: they narrowly missed hitting a tree before the car finally stopped.
Cyclists beware; there are careless drivers out there.
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