Walk Idiot Walk

so i'm running errands for work, after delivering banking i was on my way to pick up a sign rider from a listing. im heading south on water street, a street that runs along the river for a block and then swings around to become western heading west. at the intersection of western and petaluma blvd. i had a green light and was planning on turning left onto the blvd.... but a bicyclist had other plans....

as i crossed into the intersection a 16 yearold on his bike, who had been riding on the sidewalk, slammed into my front driverside fender. he hit pretty hard. i stopped immediately and asked him if he was ok. luckily for me, there was an ambulance waiting at the stoplight (the same red light that he ran i might add) one of the paramedics got out to investigate while the other, the driver, drove across the street and pulled over. the paramedics saw the whole thing and thus allowed for us to avoid any sort of arguement. they called for a police squad car to come by and write up a report. i still have to fill out a sheet of my accounts of the accident. but since the paramedics were eyewitnesses of the entire thing, and they spoke with the police officer, i think my story is pretty solid.

as for my truck, he hit first right in front of the wheel where his handlebar left a dent and scuff mark, i ran over his front wheel and his bike kind of shifted left (as i was still moving) and he swung around and his body hit the truck just in fron of the door. im not sure what hit, but there is a dent there as well. his head hit my mirror, which folded back as it was designed to do. his knee was pretty banged up from something, and he prolly has a bunch more bumps and bruises that he wasnt feeling yet, but overall, hes in good shape. good enough that the paramedics themselves left the scene after giving their account of the accident. i just hope his parents take care of my freakin repairs. poor truck. :-(

another thing that didnt escape me was this kid's luck.... what if i didnt drive so quickly down water street? what if he had been going faster? if either of those were the case, it would have been me blind siding him. that would have been quite a bit worse for him.