Safety Quiz - Most Common Accident
This is one of the questions for the Safety Quiz I'm looking for help with. Thanks for adding your own answers.
Question: What is the most likely accident to occur when riding a bike?
- When coming to a stop, taking foot out of the pedal on one side and falling to the other side.
- Innocent-looking little old lady sticks her walking cane into your spokes.
- Orifice control when a car passes too close.
- Dog and pedestrian on opposite ends of a long leash.
- Practicing putting your water bottle back in the cage without looking.
- Not knowing the cyclist's hand signal for "Stopping"
- Not knowing the motorist's hand signal for "Get on the sidewalk"
- Distracted from trying to read the license tag of the motorist who just issued a hand signal.
- Distracted from a bug that flew down your windpipe and is scratching around
- Squirrel getting caught in the spokes and splattering all over
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posted by Jett @ 9:12 PM
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3 Comments:
Is any of those the right answer? I'd say:
* Drivers not paying attention to you and turning into you while you are riding on the sideway or in a bike lane, not taking the lane as you approach an intersection.
Chris, that's exactly what I thought until I started researching this.
It turns out most accidents that require an emergency room visit do not involve motor vehicles but are simply loss of control or collisions with stationary objects.
I would say you've got the best answer for this question: "What is the most common collision between a car and a cyclist?". From what I've read, the right-turn collision is more common than the left-turn, but together, these two are the most common and as you say, it is best prevented by taking the lane as your approach the intersection.
You've brought out a good point: I ought to start posting what I'm proposing to be the right answer as well.
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