Motorists are useless bastards

[hirez]

This afternoon I found out what a cyclist hitting a car sounds like. In the way that road accidents don't go bang so much as slap, so it is with people hitting bonnets.

I say heard rather than saw because I was busy looking over my shoulder for entirely expected cars at the oblique junction where the river path meets Locksbrook Road/Brassmill Lane at the edge of Bath, when there was a crunching slap noise from in front of me.

There was a moment of silence before the driver started on a fit of the vapours and the passenger leapt out and round the car toward the chap on the ground shouting fuck fuck FUCK.

I stayed out of the way - someone else was already on the phone for an ambulance, I'd not actually seen what had happened and getting in the way so as to be able to post pictures on Twitter would have been rubbish.

Comments

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Hope the cyclist was OK.

[miss_squiddy]

I am just terrified of this happening. I hope it wasn't as bad as it sounded. :(

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Me too. There were a bunch of other cyclists pottering slowly away and we were all thinking 'there but for the grace of bob...' Indeed I said as much to another bloke. We both needed the moral support and to acknowlege what had happened.

[individuation.livejournal.com]

Scary! Glad it wasn't you :/