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Originally Posted by 4W4K3 Bookmarked, great read. I dunno when I will find the balls to ride on anything bigger than our 4 lane highways though. Actually going on the interstate when it is crowded scares me just to think about it! |
I don't have any statistics to back this up but I think you're safer on the interstate than you are on any other kind of road. Interstates have extremely limited access, no stop lights, no left turning cars in front of you, often have large spaces and/or jersy walls between you and on-coming traffic and everyone is generally headed in the same direction at approximately the same speed.
You should be much more on alert when traversing intersections and any road where cars might make left turns in front of you. Even a sleepy little side street could be dangerous. As an example yesterday morning on the way to church no less, we approached a 4-way stop where two 25 mph speed limit steets meet in a very quiet part of town, the guy in the car in front of us stopped at the stop sign, looked both ways then didn't go! A second later a car ran through the intersection from the left at about 50mph as if the stop sign wasn't even there! At 10am on a sunny Sunday morning.
If I took you to that intersection I'd bet you'd say it was about the safest place in the world to ride, but of course you'd be wrong.