http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: My wife involved in a SMIDSY en Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:01:42 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5232#post-55921 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:38:05 +0000 Uberuce 55921@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Good work by your wife, and a cautionary tale for dozy people, of which I am assuredly one. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5232#post-55920 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:30:59 +0000 gembo 55920@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Danger of using same route all the time. You run the risk of switching off. Car turning down Dolphin Rd from Lanark road queue the other day I found well surprising. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5232#post-55918 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:21:04 +0000 druidh 55918@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Driving home from work and she needed to make a phone call, so pulled in to the side of the road. This is a straight, rural road with a slight uphill. Good visibility.</p> <p>As she is on the phone, she sees a cyclist coming up the hill behind her. Looks again - still coming. Looks again (panicking now) and the cyclist runs straight into the back of her white van.</p> <p>The guy has blood coming from his chin and is a bit shaken. Keen to carry on, she talks him out of it applies a bandage and calls his wife, then drives him and his bike home a couple of miles.</p> <p>His explanation for not looking where he is going? He uses that road lots and there's never anyone parked on it. </p>