Truck or no truck ... that is the question

Just about twenty minutes ago I almost had a crash with a truck. Shock And not on the highway, but inside the city! It was at the point where Nagy Lajos k. street meets the Örs Vezér square (in Budapest, Hungary). The road splits into two lanes at this point, the truck followed the left one and I was about to pass in the right one. However I noticed that the truck started to drift towards me! It already crossed the line, when I hit the horn. I think I even heard the truck touch my left mirror before it started to get back into its lane. It was definitely closer than healthy. We stopped one lane apart from each other at the traffic lights before the big crossing of Örs V. square (since at this point there're three lanes, one turns to the left and two go straight ahead). I looked up to the driver of the truck and saw him showing with his hands that he almost fell asleep and that he was sorry. I bet he was. How sorry would he have been if he bumped me against one of the traffic light columns? Shock Probably I used up all my luck for this month tonight, so I better be even more careful for the next one. Smile

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Luck

Be careful, especially during cycling you are basically naked!

Both of these accidents today were caused by trucks:
http://index.hu/politika/bulvar/bulvarhirek/331012/
http://index.hu/politika/belfold/budapest/kcs1019/

Re: Luck

Thanks for the links. It's a shame that bikers are that much neglected in the traffic. Sad
My encounter with the truck occured while I was driving my car. With a bycicle I would have been not even in danger since it has a lot shorter brake trail and on the bike I would have spotted the truck's behaviour a lot earlier. If I brake with the bike, the truck passes by in a second (or at most in two). And with the bike I could have rolled onto the sidewalk, with a car I couldn't, there was not much space to manoeuvre.