We had the nicest weather in at least a month today for my ride in . . . 10 degrees and sunny! No snow or rain!
Gah, I knew things were too good to be true.
Had a car sideswipe me on the way home last night. I think (although details are kinda fuzzy) that it hit either my arms or my handlebars with it's mirror, causing the wheel to spin 90 degrees to the direction I was travelling. I was doing about 35 kph at the time, so this sorta launched me over the bars and I ended up cracking my helmet pretty spectacularly, landing on my left side, and sliding a good piece up the road. Also whacked my left knee really, really hard. Looking back at it, I was being stupid and not completely taking the lane - trying to avoid blocking traffic. The driver was trying to squeeze through space that the vehicle simply didn't fit in.
To their credit, the driver peeled away immediately to make sure that he or she wasn't going to be in the way after the accident. Several people from surrounding houses and from cars that saw the accident did stop to check if I was OK though. They all said that I was very visible with the four lights in the back and the two in front, the neon orange jacket, and all the reflective stuff - so it's not like the guy didn't see me.
All in all, things came out OK. I made it the remaining 10 km home. Derailleurs weren't damaged, front wheel needs a little bit of truing, and the frame isn't bent. I lost a lot of skin on the one side of my body, but managed to avoid any major tears in my jacket, jersey, or tights) and have a good amount of swelling on my left knee and wrist, but nothing is sprained or broken. Swelling on the knee is a lot better than last night as well, where I could barely make it up and down the stairs to our bedroom. My bar tape is a little scuffed, and I need a new helmet - could have been worse. Sadly breaks my streak of not being hit by a car for five or six years (but continues my streak of having the car that hits me not stick around afterwards.)