Our accident stories and lessons learned
Hi all,
I did the search but couldn't find anything like this on HUBB.
We all have some stories from the road, whether it was a small accident or something major. It would be great to share our stories and learn from each other.
I start.
Some years ago just 1 month after picking up my motorcycle license, I was crossing a big intersection. There was green light and I was turning left, following a car in front of me. As I was in the middle of the maneuver, I looked right to make sure nothing is coming my way. When I looked back, I realized that the car in front of me stopped pretty rapidly to let somebody cross the road so I had to slam on my brakes. I lost traction and slid right into the car's rear bumper. Luckily everything was happening pretty slowly so except pain in my foot I was OK. Picture included.
My lessons learned:
-to keep the distance to the car in front,
-looking to the side should be much faster - more like glancing,
-slamming on my brakes doesn't work well, especially when turning
-maybe wearing proper biking boots would have saved me a lot of pain (my foot was fractured)
Anyone else happy to share their story?
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