I was tooling along, minding my business on a 4 lane, thru town type road, I was near the curb. A Mobile ICU ( back in the day, it woulda just been an ambulance, but this thing is BIG, Painted up like a fire truck & has the shiny stuff all over it., BIg letters in contrasting colors,, extremely visible. It passes me, no lites, no siren, just rolling the limit, I look up to see a guy in a pickup clear a stop sign, I cant be sure he rolled thru, not sure he stopped, but he didnt come thru fast,, & he came across a lane + before he slammed on the brakes to keep from hitting that Ambulance.,.
If it had been a motorcycle,, I dont think he woulda seen it,
The moral? Pay attention.. you are probably invisible to a good %age of the drivers out there.

Serowbot wrote on 01/16/12 at 20:18:12:

Nooow I get it!

& I tried ever so hard to convey the point that guy was just rolling down thew road, no lites, no siren, no emergency. He was a huge, colorful truck & the guy at the stop sign didnt see him, nearly ran right into him.,

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 01/17/12 at 06:01:30:

Just goes to show you that even on a clear day, a brightly conveyed message, will be ran over.

Couple of years back was a lady out here "T-boned" a big yellow school bus. She said she didn't see it. Ahe failed to see the stop sign too. I work on the basis that short of a 5 mil candlepower strobe they don't see me. Come to think of it, most likely wouldn't make any difference if they did see me, what the heck is one bike more or less.