Be stationary or be gone

Whenever I experience a situation I think about my half of the deal.
EG: There would have been no near miss if I did not put my bike there at the
time. etc.

So.. Morning peak hour. Thursday.
Left turn onto Dandenong Rd Melbourne.
I need to turn left to enter then cross 4 lanes to get to the far side for a
future Rt turn.

Traffic clears in the near lanes, the far lane will clear in a sec.
So I crept forward.
Woman in the golf behind me...
Turns her head to the right, looks up ddnong rd out her drivers side window
and hits the gas.
Shunts me clear across the first lane of ddnong rd.
Bars were straight did not drop it.
Still shit myself about being cleaned up by a car. None were there.

Half buzzing and a bit stunned we both swap details but after reaching work.
All thats needed is a chain adjustment. She had a scuffed bumper.

If they are impatiently waiting behind you.
My new bit of program is 'Be stationary or be gone'

Take care. Ben.

 

This must be a common crash occurance as I've just about done it myself in
the car a few times. The vehicle in front appears to take off, so you look
right and creep forward to anticipate a possible gap for yourself when low
and behold the car in front hasn't taken off and you nearly rear-end them.
Of course I always try to drive within the limits of my vision and brakes so
hence have never actually crashed like this, but I'm sure many people do.

 

I've done it to someone else in the car, and had it done to me on the
bike.

When I did it, the car in front started off into a 500m gap then changed
his mind. $1400 to his falcon, $25 to my corolla...)

When it was done to me it was at a roundabout with a blind corner on the
right. (A building on the corner blocks the view to the right. You can
only see traffic coming from the right when it was 10 m from the stop
line. Ascot vale Rd and Epsom road) I saw the car entering quickly
from the right a fraction of a second before the driver behind me.
Damage, one indicator lens. exchanged details, but didn't bother
chasing him for it.


Moike