So Tom had to work today (of course) and he called to let me know he was going to be a little late…someone on a bike hit him as he was pulling out of his parking lot!!
He didn’t give me many details because the cops were just getting there, so I was left wondering just what happened! He said bike so I thought motorcyle, and he had commented that his car was pretty bad—so I imagined the worst.
So, what happened?
Tom was in the drive waiting to pull out across a divided four-lane road into his turn lane. He checked for traffic and seeing none (and only seeing two bikers way off in the distance), pulled out—when a guy on a 10-speed ran into him and flew over the hood!
Turns out the guy was riding the wrong way on the street (against traffic—he should have been on the other side of the divided road) and he tried to “go around” the car instead of waiting for it—so Tom hadn’t seen him at all because he was coming from the wrong direction!
He crashed into the car, skidded across the hood, and went flying into the road. He was wearing a helmet, thankfully, and Tom said he seemed okay. There were witnesses, the cops were called, and it was definitely the biker’s fault.
Unfortunately, the biker didn’t get a ticket.
Fortunately, we didn’t have to pay our deductible because it wasn’t our fault.
