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[P-Ratt]

I have had the fortune of being hit by errant drivers on two separate occasions while riding. Once in 2000 and again at the start of this year. In both cases, the only way to avoid the crash would be for me to not be there. I would have been hit if I had been in my van.

Have you ever been hit? Once, twice, more? Car, truck, bike, other? Is it just my luck or is this the norm?

Choose more than one answer where applicable.

[Tourmeister]

Only by critters... numerous times. Rabbits, frogs, dogs, cats, deer, buzzard, owl, birds, BIG insects... Never any multivehicle stuff though.

[focus frenzy]

I have never been hit while on a bike (some close calls) but have been hit twice whil driving cars, and twice while in company truck.

I did slide under the back of a T-bird once, does that count?

[Eulogite]

I've been left-turned twice. First time on the CB550 I stayed up after I hit the car. The second time on a 78 GL1000 in Colorado with Debbie on the back, I threw it down rather than risk flying through the air.

Twice, my riding skills were the problem, no cars involved.

BUT, in three of the four accidents, I received nary a scratch due to wearing my gear. In the fourth, I landed hard on a shoulder and broke it.

[Squeaky]

I actually had a close call Saturday - I was heading up to Conroe on I45, was right near the I10 interchange, and traffic was down to a crawl because of some standing water in the road. I pulled off onto a wide shoulder to change out my face shield and rest my clutch hand, and as I took my helmet off I heard a crash!

I'm glad I chose as wide a shoulder as I did and moved over to the left side of it, because a car in the lane next to me rear-ended a truck. Just didn't see the traffic slow down or couldn't stop in time. I offered up my phone# as a witness, but thanked my lucky stars the car didnt swerve onto the shoulder to avoid the collision and high-tailed it out of there!

[Tourmeister]

Good thing you were not between them Squeaky ;-)

[wonder91178]

Squidward and I were hit by that darn minivan back in March. I get so tired of hearing people say "Always leave yourself an escape route" or "Always look in your mirrors". Sometimes you just-don't-see-them-coming. We didn't have an option of an out because we were surrounded by traffic in the lane we were in...and...you can't live life looking in your mirrors because you'll miss what's ahead of you. We are very careful and aware riders...but sometimes things are just unavoidable.

Sorry...let me get off my soapbox. Sorry about that!

Squidward got sideswiped by a truck that decided to drive down the righthand shoulder while in traffic on 35W that knocked him down.

Other than that I am the only one to have wrecked because of something other than another vehicle. (Gravel, wind and a little inexperience were the culprits then!)

[Kidder]

I was rear ended in rush hour traffic on the way to work one morning. I was exiting a freeway and traffic in front of me started to move. So, I began to move and all of a sudden I heard brakes squeal and then I started asphalt surfing. I was fine but my bike required all new bodywork and a new gas tank.

[chiricahua]

Rubbing is riding:giveup:

[Plane Dr]

Rubbing is riding:giveup:

Yuppers.

Been rubbed here at 70 mph.

I broke a tailight lense on a Bronco once. A ninja signal light will punch a perfect hole. Cute chicks should be banned near signal lights! Dohhh!

Dodged more than I can count, those left turners will get you every time. If it isn't them, it is the ones like Squeaky just mentioned. Can't look enough directions at once.

[chiricahua]

Yeah back in Cali Lane splitting is legal and cagers don't like it so they tend to bump and grind you.:giveup:

[cmcnamee]

I've been bumped (for lack of a better word) twice while stopped in a right turn lane and with nowhere to go due to traffic. Both times the other driver "didn't think I was stopping." I still vividly remember the last time as the front end of a caddie suv kept looming larger and larger in my mirror and there was no escape route available.

Carl

[brutus]

More than once, the worst was a Mitsubishi Montero waiting to enter the main street I was on. There was a break in traffic coming towards me and when I was about a car length from her she whipped out and hit me in the knee. I heard her telling the cop that she saw a bus but not me. I was going 25mph but she hit me in the knee which drove my femur through my pelvis. So you don't have to be going fast, no matter of safety equipment would have protected me and no amount of safety training would have helped me.

Sometimes it's just your time...

[Hairsmith]

Had a Lady rear end me at a stop sign, just pushed me forward but did not go down.
And another Lady back into my sidecar rig at a stoplight. She hit me and kept backing up, pushed me back almost ten feet. Luckily since it was my sidecar rig I did not go down. I did feel stupid hanging over the bars setting on the gas tank when the bike was pushed back under me. I got off after she stopped and pulled the rig back so I could look at the damage and straighten the forks. And this Sweet thing gives me a disgusted look in the rear view mirror like it was my fault. Hitting her car with my bike was not my fault, stomping her tail lights out was.
I was young then, I have a much better control of my emotions now.:trust:

[DANNYROTH]

I was riding down a busy street in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. I was overtaking two guys on bicycles, when the one on the left decided to do a U-turn right across my path. He wound up dragging his bike away after I gave him a good cussing.:eek2:

[wbrisett]

I had the misfortune of one car-bike accident. The individual in the car "thought" they had a protected left, and pulled out directly in front on me. Unfortunately as one would imagine, I lost the battle of car vs. bike. In fact, to be honest, I don't remember much of that accident other than waking up in the ambulance on my way to the hospital. That was back in 1981, I bought another bike (Honda Silverwing -- before they made it a scooter) and rode that bike until I sold it. Traffic in Austin has gotten worse, and must now must be much more vigilant on the new bike I just bought. But then I think I'm a much better driver in general, paying more attention to what people "might" be doing instead of waiting for them to actually do it before I react.

Wayne