You can't be expected to make eye contact with every driver at every corner. It's good to try, but that in itself is scary. Human powered and motored bikers have both good vantage and heightened perception from our activity, at corners. So we see all kinds of non driving related activity from folks who are legally required to watch for us. Eating, kid disciplining, the ubiquitous smart phones, and even stuff the truckers used to CB each other about. As previously mentioned, even 2 lit road flares sticking out of the ends of our handle bars wouldn't register with many of these zombies. But at busy intersections we can't check out the attentiveness of drivers at all 4 corners and (critically) the self absorbed texter bearing down on us from behind. Just a scary fact........I wasn't wearing a helmet and another mistake I made was getting in a hurry and not making eye contact with the driver...I can do better than this! Anyhow it is like a hairline fracture and is already healing quite well surprizingly. I saw it comming at the last second raised my left leg so as not to get it crushed and kicked the bike away from me when I felt it hit...then rolled on the asphalt...only got a small cut on my left leg close to my ankle...I was fortunate to take gymnastics as a little kid and learned how to take a fall.
