ellbiddy
Active Member
So on my morning commute to work I was having a blast, my legs were a little sore but after about 5 miles in I was feeling great! Pedaling and enjoying the cool breeze. So as I start pulling into new brunswick I go into my caution mode as I've had some close calls here before. I was mashing away down the streets and still having a blast keeping up with traffic (city riding almost approaches the fun factor of trail riding for me). So as I was keeping up with a guy in the left lane while in the right lane I got a few chuckles and thumbs ups from people waiting at the bus stop (probably going around 30) which isn't too unusual, people get a laugh out of bikers keeping up with cars.
So as I approach an intersection I slow slightly (still keeping pace with traffic as others were slowing as well) and out of no where this guy doing 40-45 blows by me and slams on his brakes making the turn at the intersection I was entering and just takes me out. Like the ben stiller video posted up before, my slow-mo reflexes failed and I got nailed. I tried to turn in with him but I was moving too quick to stop so as he hits me my monkey reflex is to latch onto his car because I was about 90% sure I was going to slip under his wheels otherwise. So I latch on to his crossbars (it was a civic with a roof rack for bikes ironically) and suddenly I realize what I'm doing and I look down and my bike is still attached to me at the pedals and it's still rolling along. The guy freaks out and slams on his brakes, as this happens I get flung forward my bag owning his car in the process. Since my ass was hanging off the seat when he stopped I went down, but luckily it wasn't on any needles just nice soft asphalt . So as I'm laying on the ground staring up thinking about what just happened all I hear is tires screeching, and I knew what he was thinking and I wanted to smash my face through his window and spit blood all over him fight club style... I get up and I see him speeding off down the road. Unluckily for him the street he turned down had a red light waiting for him. Even more unluckily for him was that on the other side of the road of the intersection was a lovely New Brunswick police officer watching the whole incident unfold. Game over for him.
I smelt the sweet scent of justice approaching and BAM, lights and sirens...the cop is after him. He passed me and I gave him the thumbs up that I was okay and he just kept going for the guy. Needless to say he picked him off at the light (while he was trying to pass the car in the straight/right lane to make a quick right turn to get away) and the cop goes nuts on him and throws him in the back of his car. Comes up to me asks me if I'm alright and that he saw the whole thing. After some formalities the cop got some info from me, but that guy was getting reamed with all sorts of legalities. I checked out my bike, not a scratch really and all I had was a little scuff on my leg since my bag broke a big chunk of my fall after latching on to this guy's car. Mentioned something about hit and run charges so I assumed his car was going to get towed. Since I was really cold I got all of my stuff out of the way, waited for whatever the cop had to give me and rolled off to work...slowly...not sure what happened after that, but I hope he got his. I don't mind if it was an accident, but the way it happened and ESPECIALLY what he did after it made me really angry I asked the cop if I could have a video of the incident to share with my friends and he laughed and said he'll see what he could do (sounded really like he was joking, but who knows!) So maybe you guys will have a video of me getting hit and latching onto moving cars sometime in the future....
Moral of the story....cops rule...guys that hit cyclists and run suck.
So as I approach an intersection I slow slightly (still keeping pace with traffic as others were slowing as well) and out of no where this guy doing 40-45 blows by me and slams on his brakes making the turn at the intersection I was entering and just takes me out. Like the ben stiller video posted up before, my slow-mo reflexes failed and I got nailed. I tried to turn in with him but I was moving too quick to stop so as he hits me my monkey reflex is to latch onto his car because I was about 90% sure I was going to slip under his wheels otherwise. So I latch on to his crossbars (it was a civic with a roof rack for bikes ironically) and suddenly I realize what I'm doing and I look down and my bike is still attached to me at the pedals and it's still rolling along. The guy freaks out and slams on his brakes, as this happens I get flung forward my bag owning his car in the process. Since my ass was hanging off the seat when he stopped I went down, but luckily it wasn't on any needles just nice soft asphalt . So as I'm laying on the ground staring up thinking about what just happened all I hear is tires screeching, and I knew what he was thinking and I wanted to smash my face through his window and spit blood all over him fight club style... I get up and I see him speeding off down the road. Unluckily for him the street he turned down had a red light waiting for him. Even more unluckily for him was that on the other side of the road of the intersection was a lovely New Brunswick police officer watching the whole incident unfold. Game over for him.
I smelt the sweet scent of justice approaching and BAM, lights and sirens...the cop is after him. He passed me and I gave him the thumbs up that I was okay and he just kept going for the guy. Needless to say he picked him off at the light (while he was trying to pass the car in the straight/right lane to make a quick right turn to get away) and the cop goes nuts on him and throws him in the back of his car. Comes up to me asks me if I'm alright and that he saw the whole thing. After some formalities the cop got some info from me, but that guy was getting reamed with all sorts of legalities. I checked out my bike, not a scratch really and all I had was a little scuff on my leg since my bag broke a big chunk of my fall after latching on to this guy's car. Mentioned something about hit and run charges so I assumed his car was going to get towed. Since I was really cold I got all of my stuff out of the way, waited for whatever the cop had to give me and rolled off to work...slowly...not sure what happened after that, but I hope he got his. I don't mind if it was an accident, but the way it happened and ESPECIALLY what he did after it made me really angry I asked the cop if I could have a video of the incident to share with my friends and he laughed and said he'll see what he could do (sounded really like he was joking, but who knows!) So maybe you guys will have a video of me getting hit and latching onto moving cars sometime in the future....
Moral of the story....cops rule...guys that hit cyclists and run suck.