Bike vs. Truck Accident

[yangelina.livejournal.com]

Please be careful when you're riding!
http://blog.charlesbandes.com/?p=1260
More info on this?
I hope he is ok.

Comments

[jodi.livejournal.com]

as someone who has avoided an innumerable amount of bike/car accidents since moving to the Boston area, i'd like to extend "please be careful when you're riding" to include "please be careful when you're driving" as well.

[yangelina.livejournal.com]

Yes, of course, I should have just said "be careful" in general. As a commuting cyclist my first instinct was to warn cyclists to be careful first - personally I find it important to never rely on other people to be careful, and to constantly expect every driver to be the worst, expect that they never see cyclists. Anyhow, thank you for pointing that out.

[jodi.livejournal.com]

>I find it important to never rely on other people to be careful

I agree! Cars cannot be trusted to not kill all the pedestrians and cyclists around them! I have a short commute but its has proven to be almost deadly too many times.