My collision free streak has ended.

[lordofthemark]

For those of you who haven’t seen my strava, this is what happened yesterday afternoon:

I was riding home, had just left the office, riding WB in the bike lane on Eye SE, crossing NJ Avenue. Eye and NJ SE is a bad intersection, especially on a nice evening – cars, peds, riders in every direction in large numbers, turns, and no traffic signals. I tried to ride alongside a WB car to get a gap through the mess, but of course I couldn’t quite keep up. SB SUV, waited till the car was past then proceeded and hit me (on the right side, of course) I went down. He was apologetic, gave me insurance info. I was in a hurry to an evening event, so did not call police, etc. I felt okay. Mostly minor road rash on the leg, arm, hand. Later noticed a scrape on my right ankle, which maybe was from the SUV, not the road? Got the chain back on, and rode off. As I headed WB on Eye SW I noticed it was getting much harder to pedal, brake was stuck, etc, and I realized I had to bag it, so took the bike to DistrictHardware/Velocafe. They took a look, and gave me an estimate.

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[lordofthemark]

@lordofthemark 190694 wrote:

Thanks to all for the kind words, here, on strava, and in person. The bike is back in tip top shape thanks to the folks at District Hardware. I am feeling fine – had a bit of next day soreness, but that seems to all be gone now. I have been reimbursed for the full District Hardware bill. I do intend to report this in some fashion to DC. In particular I want to encourage DC to add a traffic signal at NJ and Eye SE (even BikePedantic was not sure of the current status of that). I also intend to avoid that intersection in the PM, which I can do by crossing NJ at L or K SE.

https://twitter.com/charlesallen/status/1220531791209037824

Sometimes things DO get better.

[Smitty2k1]

That intersection is a mess, glad to hear they are getting controls in place

[lordofthemark]

Update:

The traffic signal at Eye and NJ SE, where this incident happened is in place. The PBL’s on NJ now run all the way south to US DOT HQ. NJ and Eye is now a protected intersection, one of the first in the District (its a bit odd, because of the angle caused by the state avenue, and the inconsistent presence/absense of parking on the different lets of the intersection – you’d have to ask Darren/Bikepedantic about that)

Things DO get better. Slowly. Painfully. Inconsistently. But they do.

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