Thanks guys - appreciate all the kind thoughts.
The driver did stop, and I called 911 - a witness stopped as well and encouraged the 911 call. Myself, the witness and the driver all gave statements.
Then I got $110 ticket for "changing lanes - not in safety". I was passing a freeway off-ramp - had shoulder checked twice to establish speed of car coming down ramp, then signaled with my right hand that I was coming over and picked up my pace. I had space - he was at least 80m back when I initiated my maneuver. I do this all the time, since this interchange is only a few blocks from my house. Below is not to scale.
I can only assume that the driver of the white car (who hit me) hit the gas to try to merge in front of the brownish car (the lady who witnessed it). I heard a horn behind me and the world went wonky. I know I hit hard on my right, but have no real road rash there, and when I got up I was on my left side...so best I can guess I hit initially on the hood of his car, then landed on the gravelly paved shoulder when he stopped.
He claims he saw me and tried to slow down & "fit his car between me and the (brownish car)", but he hit me with his driver's side.
That's the mark from him smashing into my rear tire. My husband says there were dents in his hood.
I'm going to fight the ticket. The cop claims that if I'd just continued along the yellow dotted line and he'd hit me coming over, it would be the driver's fault, but that since I was moving over to the curb across the off-ramp lane it was my fault. I explained that I was trying to comply with the Highway Traffic Act requirement for slower moving traffic to move as far to the right as possible, but the cop was unmoved.
My husband tells me the driver and his girlfriend (whom he called, and who showed up at the scene) were laughing while I was being cited.
I'm actually at the office today, and head is feeling clearer than this morning. Might have been the naproxen kicking me - I almost never take pain meds (none since I broke my wrist in Aug 2012) and sometimes they throw me for a loop.
Cheers!
-mistress k
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ill advised racing inc.
The driver did stop, and I called 911 - a witness stopped as well and encouraged the 911 call. Myself, the witness and the driver all gave statements.
Then I got $110 ticket for "changing lanes - not in safety". I was passing a freeway off-ramp - had shoulder checked twice to establish speed of car coming down ramp, then signaled with my right hand that I was coming over and picked up my pace. I had space - he was at least 80m back when I initiated my maneuver. I do this all the time, since this interchange is only a few blocks from my house. Below is not to scale.
I can only assume that the driver of the white car (who hit me) hit the gas to try to merge in front of the brownish car (the lady who witnessed it). I heard a horn behind me and the world went wonky. I know I hit hard on my right, but have no real road rash there, and when I got up I was on my left side...so best I can guess I hit initially on the hood of his car, then landed on the gravelly paved shoulder when he stopped.
He claims he saw me and tried to slow down & "fit his car between me and the (brownish car)", but he hit me with his driver's side.
That's the mark from him smashing into my rear tire. My husband says there were dents in his hood.
I'm going to fight the ticket. The cop claims that if I'd just continued along the yellow dotted line and he'd hit me coming over, it would be the driver's fault, but that since I was moving over to the curb across the off-ramp lane it was my fault. I explained that I was trying to comply with the Highway Traffic Act requirement for slower moving traffic to move as far to the right as possible, but the cop was unmoved.
My husband tells me the driver and his girlfriend (whom he called, and who showed up at the scene) were laughing while I was being cited.
I'm actually at the office today, and head is feeling clearer than this morning. Might have been the naproxen kicking me - I almost never take pain meds (none since I broke my wrist in Aug 2012) and sometimes they throw me for a loop.
Cheers!
-mistress k
__________________________________________________________
ill advised racing inc.