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Holy Cow! She was lucky. That was really stupid to pull in-between the car and the truck. She was in a complete blind spot and the truck driver had no way to see she had moved into that spot.

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Well that was stupid, how in the hell did she think she could be seen 1 foot in front of the truck. People have no common sense these days at all.
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Good thing she was wearing protective gear
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It is important to remember that you are almost always the smallest vehicle on the road.

I am a retired boat captain; there are "Rules of the Road" in the marine world that establishes procedures for collision avoidance. There is another "unwritten rule" that all captains know: big boat eats little boat.

When you are on the road on your scoot, you are the "little boat."

This woman was lucky to have survived that bit of stupidity.
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Lucky indeed. That could have ended really bad. I go by the premise they don't see you and do what I can to create a buffer zone. Not always easy, but I do what I can.
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