Eric Aldinger
As unpleasant as it is, I have started pulling over on country roads to let
cars pass me. It has reduced aggro driving a lot for me and prevents
drivers from making unsafe passes into blind turns.
On Apr 18, 2016 9:15 AM, "via OBRA" wrote:
> Martin,
> First I am glad you are good to go for the next ride.
> This might be a good time for an attorney to chime in on this. I know
> there are real jerks (who have done and will do harm to cyclists), but
> growing up out in an agricultural region, I know that everyone pretty much
> worked around slow moving tractors, trucks, wide loads moving from one
> field to another etc. For the most part I am sure that patience with these
> vehicles / operators is still the case out there. Most of those operators
> are thankful for the help. I am not sure this fellow exists in that
> reality. I am not sure of the law and this for sure does not excuse what
> this jerk did to you, but the actual law (if there is one about this) would
> be interesting to know.
> ron
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Martin Fuss via OBRA
> Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2016 3:46 PM
> To: obra@list.obra.org
> Subject: [OBRA Chat] Incident on SW Aebischer this afternoon
>
> I would like to see if someone else had a similar incident on Chehalem
> mountain recently.
>
> I was riding up Aebischer coming from Lebau/Edy and almost got run over by
> and an overweight, white male with some beard in a white big pickup truck
> (I want to say Ford F250/350 or similar size Chevy) hauling a really wide
> agricultural attachment (tiller? Green with yellow lettering, John Deere?)
> which extended roughly 4 feet on either side of the truck. The guy came up
> from behind me, honked several times, then pulled alongside me, called me
> names, came closer and closer and told me he would run me over if I did not
> get off the road (he literally said "get off the road or I run you over").
> First I got only irritated and held my line, thinking its the usual
> imbecile that we all have met on a road at one point in time. Then I
> realized what was behind my rear wheel (recall the thing that extended
> laterally), scary. I feel that if I had made any mistake or tipped my
> brakes, I would have been under the thing. I hopped off the road and he
> accelerated past me. Back on the road, I followed the guy - he was not
> driving that fast. He had no problem avoiding an oncoming car about 300
> yards further down the road. Then he pulled into the farm property that
> sits on the right side on top of Aebischer where the street connects with
> Kruger. At that time he may have gained 30 secs on me. That guy felt
> comfortable threatening my well being for 30 secs! Crazy. He could have
> just followed my pace and he should have been fine.
> I called 911, and the police would not even want to show up. Told me they
> would not do anything anyway as they did not see the incident. I asked them
> to talk to the guy, but nope. Amazing, makes me realize that we have no
> protection out there whatsoever...
> Since the driver is obviously a local it would not surprise me if this had
> happened before. Please contact me if you had a similar experience in that
> area. I will file a civil complaint (hope that is the right terminology) -
> that was the best advice the police was giving me over the phone.
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