Maxima gets totaled by a drunk in January, road bike gets hit by someone on the wrong side of the path, breaks my bike frame and separates my shoulder, this past Thursday, I'm on my way to the grocery store, move to the right lane and accelerate to pass a truck going 32 in a 40 in the left lane, right into 1-2 inches of water flooding the right lane from some apartment complex sprinklers. Back tires aren't bald but are close to the wear bars so I hydroplane, thought I recovered, then either hit more water or a bump (road is pretty rough in that area) and spin into the median (curb there is maybe 2" high) and the back end hits a pole. 
My son had driven by the same location 3 hours earlier and he said the sprinklers were on then too, and blasted the side of his girlfriend's SUV. One of the officeresses at the scene said that complex has been flooding the street all summer. No idea why code enforcement has let it go on that long.
Just had a bad feeling about Thursday. We almost got hit earlier in the day when I moved from the left lane to the center left lane on the freeway at the same time some idiot moved from the far right lane to the center left lane, cutting off a semi then nearly hitting me. Then after my bike ride, I'm coming home, leaving a light about 1/4 mile from home and some jerk passes the car in the middle lane on the right and missed hitting me by maybe a foot. Then I hit a huge deep puddle of water (on a completely dry day, ****ing sprinklers) on the way to the grocery store, spun out and hit a pole. It was like I was meant to get into an accident and the way it happened turned out to be the one that would least likely seriously injure me. Weird.
Pretty lucky, a bump on the head, a couple minor cuts. My son insisted I go to the hospital to be checked for a concussion, doctor said I *may* have suffered a very mild concussion if I did at all.
Anyway, the pics at the scene:
Took some more today.
My son had driven by the same location 3 hours earlier and he said the sprinklers were on then too, and blasted the side of his girlfriend's SUV. One of the officeresses at the scene said that complex has been flooding the street all summer. No idea why code enforcement has let it go on that long.
Just had a bad feeling about Thursday. We almost got hit earlier in the day when I moved from the left lane to the center left lane on the freeway at the same time some idiot moved from the far right lane to the center left lane, cutting off a semi then nearly hitting me. Then after my bike ride, I'm coming home, leaving a light about 1/4 mile from home and some jerk passes the car in the middle lane on the right and missed hitting me by maybe a foot. Then I hit a huge deep puddle of water (on a completely dry day, ****ing sprinklers) on the way to the grocery store, spun out and hit a pole. It was like I was meant to get into an accident and the way it happened turned out to be the one that would least likely seriously injure me. Weird.
Pretty lucky, a bump on the head, a couple minor cuts. My son insisted I go to the hospital to be checked for a concussion, doctor said I *may* have suffered a very mild concussion if I did at all.
Anyway, the pics at the scene:
Took some more today.
