Incident type: Motor vehicle

Van driver was fine, no one injured, must have been going too fast and lost it on a narrow steep road and managed to flip on its side without hitting the banks. Luckily the Police were on scene and taking care of the situation

Motorist pulls into right lane and stops at red light. Then right blinker is put on and it becomes apparent that the motorist would like to back into a parking spot. While checking traffic to see if I can get out of the way, the motorist reversed into me injuring my hand. The motorist said “Why are you not in a crosswalk? I was going to park the car and I didn’t even see you. I had my blinker on and you were not in any mirrors.” The question about the crosswalk is strange as it sounds like she is suggesting that bicyclists should not bicycle on the road. The explanation is plausible because I saw her check her side mirrors, but not look out the rear window. If I could see her head then she could have seen me if she had looked out the rear window or rear view mirror. There was a bus that pulled up behind me so I was trying to escape to the side, but I was not quick enough to evade the crash. As always, assume that bicyclists are invisible and ride defensively.

A truck lost control on HWY 223 in Denmark, TN as I approached curve.

Lady in Ford cut across 3 lane of stoped traffic and failed to look for bikes in the bike lane.
She refused to give me insurance and claimed it was my fault for not stopping for her in the bike lane.

Just got hit. A scrape on my elbow, my knee feels swollen and has a bump, my calf feels strained, wrist feels sprained. Driver was rolling out of the parking lot at the police station on San Jacinto (700 N San Jacinto St, Houston, TX 77002). Black Hyundai. New Jersey plate. K43-HBW. As soon as the driver got out of the car she yelled I didn’t see you. There are two witnesses, one is a detention officer, the other a former personal injury lawyer. They were all asking if I’m ok. As I was riding west on the Heights Hike & Bike Trail, a driver pulled up to the exit before the bike lane. They slowed at the bike lane so I proceeded west. As I entered the path of the driveway the driver started to pull forward and struck me with the front of their vehicle. Me and my bike ended up landing about five feet away from the vehicle further west up the trail. My bike has scrapes on the frame, seat, and handle bars. After calling the police around 6:20, the driver made another call. The driver was laughing over the phone during the second call. Driver said she saw the two witnesses when she was exiting, who were to her right, but didn’t see my flashing light coming from her left.

Bus Driver operating phone while operating the bus. Phone was held in left hand below the left side of the steering wheel. The bus driver’s eyes and attention were fully focused upon the phone. Upon complaint, the owner of the bus, agreed that the driver was not driving attentively and therefore reassigned the bus driver to a different route. This is reminiscent of the Catholic Church reassigning priests to different parishes.

In the video you can see the way the car starts and then stops suddenly. That’s where it happened. It sounded like she hit something and I was prepared for the worst when I saw the man ride slowly away.

I tried to get his attention when I was stopped at the light but he appeared to be dazed or otherwise caught up in the current situation of what looked like a possible leg injury and nearly being killed by being knocked into the intersection.

Understandable. I gave him some space and looped back around where I found the driver had stopped and was giving the man her information.

The man who was hit on the bicycle did not agree to be publicly identified and neither did the driver, so I am not providing their names. I informed them of my recording and provided my contact information.

I’m submitting this to UpRide out of public interest in building better infrastructure that doesn’t get people killed when everyone is using it as designed. “Right on red” makes collisions like this inevitable.

Will the next person hit here be able to walk away from the scene? Will the person who hit them have the courage to stop their car?

Clearly crosswalk markings are not enough.

We need to build our transportation systems in a way that makes getting around the city safe: by foot, using mobility devices, riding bicycles, for people who are very young and very old, by public transport, motorized or non-motorized.

Impatient older driver decided they had to get passed and ran over traffic island in their hurry.
Clipped me with his wing mirror and just drove on.