Nearly ran a scooter rider over the other day because he overtook me suddenly at the traffic lights
This morning at about 8.20am I had a near miss with a cyclist on Heretaunga Street East Hastings when taking my daughter from her home in Havelock North to a medical appointment at Royston Private Hospital.
Approaching Willowpark Road roundabout there was the usual, for that time of day, lengthy queue of traffic so I decided to duck down a short side street which I had coincidentally boarded in when first moving to Hastings in 1968. So I put my indicator on and after checking my rear view mirrors took the turn as soon as the car in front cleared the way – I had my indicator on for 20 or 30 seconds before making the turn.
Next thing there was a rapping on the roof of my car from a cyclist I had cut off. I never saw him and once around the corner I stopped, put my window…
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