04-06-2022, 08:58 AM
Glad that all worked out well. Even though you were not on the CB, I am sure the RLETs saved you. Since I don't need to ride on freeways, I usually avoid them when I can and get off them as soon as I can. A couple years ago a 20ton gravel truck rear-ended my Miata as I was making a left turn and accelerating a fairly good speed. Of course he couldn't see me when he was close enough to hit me, but he should have seen me before he got that close, if he was looking. I suspect he was concentration on the left-turn signal and hurrying to get through the light and didn't see me. I was really mad that someone hit me and KEPT hitting me when I was actually accelerating through the turn, so I sped up and got away from him far enough that I could stop and jump out and start yelling at him. He looked at me like "Where did that old geezer come from?" Miata was totaled and had rubber marks on top of the trunk. If I'd been on a bike, you would not be reading this now. Sometimes, you just never see it coming.