nicolaoutdoors » injury http://nicolaoutdoors.com/entries Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:05:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 How not to kill cyclists http://nicolaoutdoors.com/entries/2009/04/26/how-not-to-kill-cyclists/ http://nicolaoutdoors.com/entries/2009/04/26/how-not-to-kill-cyclists/#comments Sun, 26 Apr 2009 09:22:45 +0000 nicola http://nicolaoutdoors.com/entries/?p=503 This week in Victoria, one cyclist died and two are in intensive care with head injuries after collisions with cars.

These videos from the Cycling Promotion Fund were all filmed within a few blocks of my house. The actor drivers seems to be infinitely more careful that the real drivers. It’s all very well showing them to cyclists but motorists also need to be reminded of how dangerous their behavior is.

1. Look before you open your door. Car doors are lethal weapons.

2. Open your eyes and learn the rules. And, no, yelling that cyclists don’t pay road tax does not alter the rules.

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I think it is now getting better. I can move my arm a tiny bit more each day… And the other bruises and things have settled down so I can at least get some exercise by walking around a bit; until last night, I hadn’t moved except from chair to bed all this week.

So it wasn’t quite as minor a fall as I thought when it happened, but it’s not a big injury either. Hopefully it will all be healed and gone in a week or so. In the meantime I can work but not much else. Certainly no climbing. Or running. Or swimming. *yawn*

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