Eye-Q
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Old people in traffic...
I was on my way to my mum (obviously by bicycle ) when I came up behind an old man on his bicycle. 150m further down the road an intersection came up, the intersection has a dedicated left turn lane and a combined right turn and straight lane. Since the light was red anyway I slowed down when the old man did a shoulder check to the left and went towards the left turn lane without indicating at all. I thought he was planning to turn left so I proceeded to pass him slowly on the right since I wanted to turn right at the intersection. He was just deking though since just when I was next to him he turned sharply right into a driveway. We collided, fortunately it was a fairly low speed and we both fell without major injuries, but his front light broke off and my integrated brake-/gearshift lever (STI) is bent.
After we got up and looked at the damage the old man apologized, he "didn't see me" even though I was smack in the middle of the lane (as you are supposed to to keep people from overtaking too close or if they do to have at least the option of evading) when he did his shoulder check...
Well, it was bound to happen, in total I did about 10k km by bicycle since the end of May 2017. Up until now I always read these kinds of situations correctly beforehand, but it was so surprising that someone on a bicycle took such a wide line to turn right that I didn't even think it would be possible that he was about to turn right again...
I was on my way to my mum (obviously by bicycle ) when I came up behind an old man on his bicycle. 150m further down the road an intersection came up, the intersection has a dedicated left turn lane and a combined right turn and straight lane. Since the light was red anyway I slowed down when the old man did a shoulder check to the left and went towards the left turn lane without indicating at all. I thought he was planning to turn left so I proceeded to pass him slowly on the right since I wanted to turn right at the intersection. He was just deking though since just when I was next to him he turned sharply right into a driveway. We collided, fortunately it was a fairly low speed and we both fell without major injuries, but his front light broke off and my integrated brake-/gearshift lever (STI) is bent.
After we got up and looked at the damage the old man apologized, he "didn't see me" even though I was smack in the middle of the lane (as you are supposed to to keep people from overtaking too close or if they do to have at least the option of evading) when he did his shoulder check...
Well, it was bound to happen, in total I did about 10k km by bicycle since the end of May 2017. Up until now I always read these kinds of situations correctly beforehand, but it was so surprising that someone on a bicycle took such a wide line to turn right that I didn't even think it would be possible that he was about to turn right again...