So...I hit a car today.

headlamp?

lol at least yours wasn't really all your fault. One time I was doing my warm up walking at night and my mp3 player was messing up, so I was looking down at it messing with it, and I looked up just in time to miss a parked car. lol litteraly 2 seconds more and I would of been part of the tailgate of a toyota truck lol.

Wow so sorry to hear about that...I hope you are ok. About two weeks ago I hit a teenager on a bike. I had the green light and he came out from in front of another car next to me...I didn't even see him until he was on the hood of my car. Luckily the light had just turned green so he wasn't hurt. I called the police just to make a report and he left the scene.

My daughter was hit by a car during track practice in high school. Her story was the driver slowed down, saw she was there, and made a gesture of some kind to signal that she had seen her. My daughter then just assumed since there was some kind of eye contact she had the right-of-way so she continued to cross the street. She got hit and the driver left the scene. The coach was right behind her and she wasn't seriously hurt, but it scared the bageebers out of her, the coach, and me.

It's usually not a good thing when the school calls and says, "The principal needs to speak with you." This is a school of 3000 kids. He gets on the line and says, "Shelli, Kelsey's was hit by a car during track practice . . . . . . but she's okay." Good God, by the time he said, "...but she's okay," my brain had her in an ambulance, intensive care, and half dead.

I got to the school and put my arm around the principal and said, "Let me coach you on how to call parents. The FIRST thing you say is, your daughter is okay, but there was an accident during track practice. We'd like you to come to the school." GEESH .. this is a smart man, too. But really, what was he thinking?

The off-campus running rules changed and students were no longer allowed to run off campus. I thought that was a bit extreme and shared my thoughts, but they felt otherwise. They must have gotten a little more relax on the rules - five years later and I now see kids running off campus.

Never did find the driver.

One evening I was running on the sidewalk, on Main Street, approaching an intersection in a crosswalk. I should point out that In our community, pedestrians in crosswalks have the right-of-way. About the time I got there, a Subaru approached Main Street from the side street. The Subaru's driver, checking traffic to his left and turning right, blew through the stop sign. As I bailed out, I involuntarily shouted "JESUS CHRIST!". The driver, a PRIEST from a local church, was mortified.

Did I mention that I'm a police officer?

In the Big Picture, I don't know if my "sin" of verbal expression was worse than his "sin" of running a stop sign and almost hitting me, but I considered us even and kept going.

Glad you are OK! During full daylight, I running parallel to a busy road. I came to a side street that was perpendicular. A pickup pulled up the stop sign and put on his right blinker. As I'm running toward him, I see him checking the cell phone. Then I see him looking to the left, I decide to cross since I was right on him at this point. Mistake. He never bothered looking right. He just didn't want to pull in front of a car and only looked left. He lurched out and I ran right into his right front quarter panel. While doing so I slapped his hood pretty hard. I'm not proud of myself, and anger is no excuse, but I did give him a certain inappropriate salute and uttered some choice words. But I wasn't injured. Just mad that people could be so stupid. About 200 feet later, the same thing almost happened to me again. But I waited instead. Good thing too. See, I am teachable. )

Literally.
I was running early this morning , around 5:30 am, on a sidewalk close to my house. I was wearing my headlamp, as well as reflective pants and jacket. There were streetlights as well. I was approaching an intersection and I saw a car approaching from my left, signalling a right hand turn. The driver pulled up almost to the intersection, slowed down, and I assumed that she had seen me and was stopping to let me pass in front of her. Just as I stepped onto the road she suddenly lurched forward to make her turn. I ran smack dab into her passenger-side front door. I scared the crap out of the girl, and hurt my wrist in the process She hadn't seen me at all. She had been looking to her left to see if any cars were coming, I guess, and didn't bother looking to her right.

It was my own fault, I guess, I was in a hurry to get home and get to work...I should have slowed down and made eye contact with the girl before trying to cross the intersection. The look on her face though kind of made it all worthwhile...I think she had just woken up and hadn't had her morning coffee yet. She was definitely awake after the incident though ! lol !

Has anyone else ever had any accidents or near misses with cars during their runs...or while cycling or rollerblading ?

I'm just glad to hear that you weren't seriously injured or dead!! Thanks be to God!!

And yes, I have had people swirve across the street to scare me and all kinds of nonsense. My last near miss was an old guy who didn't really care if he hit me or not, but he was getting to where he had to go!! I felt his side rearview mirror swish past my arm. Next time I'm with my running buddies, I'm running closest to the curb!! LOL

I used to live in Philadelphia and mostly ran in the city at night, so I constantly dealt with intersections. One night, running with my not-yet husband, a car turned left on a red as we crossed the left side of the intersection. I slammed my hand on the hood and literally jumped onto it to avoid being hit. The driver (who was about 5' 0 ") jumped out of the car and grabbed my husband (who is 6' 7" and had nothing to do with the incident) around the neck. Being Philly, a small crowd gathered and jeered at the guy, who shamefully got back in the car and drove away. We ran home...

I almost had a similar experience yesterday - the walking light turned on but so did the left signal light and the stupid driver didn't think I could walk fast enough so he turned and almost hit me because I was already past the middle of the intersection.... screeched his brakes and everything... PEDESTRIANS HAVE RIGHT OF WAY EVEN IF THEY WALK SLOW!