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I've had bikers go the wrong way down a one way street and go flying onto my hood, caving it in. I've been waiting at a stoplight and had a cyclist filter up between two lanes of cars and leave a scratch through to the metal the entire length of my car. I've been t-boned at an intersection by a cyclist who decided redlights were only for uncool people.

If you've had that many serious accidents with bicyclists, you should consider whether you're driving differently than everyone else. There have been over 2 million bikeshare trips (and bikeshare users are typically novice urban cyclists, so more crash prone) and only about 20 crashes. Sounds like you've been involved in at least two bike crashes.

So, if the probability of being involved in a bike-car crash is 1 out of 100,000 trips and you've taken 3,000 trips over the past 3 years (I'm assuming both crashes happened in the past 3 years), the chance that you would be involved in two serious bike crashes is 1 in 3.33 million. You are more likely to be struck by lighting than to be involved in two bike crashes over three years.

by Falls Church on Jun 7, 2012 10:23 pm • link • report

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