Anyhow, we'd had a green light for probably 5 to 7 seconds, and there were no cars coming straight towards us...just one across the road making a left, so I went ahead and made my left.
Per normal, when riding with another scooter, I went into the left most part of the lane, so that when he came behind me he could go into the right part of the lane so we could right staggered. Anyhow, I had not totally straightened up out of my turn when I heard honking that sounded like it came from 30 or so feet away, and this black car was right there...like a foot or so from me. He had run the red light!
I was just thinking "whoa!", but it happened so fast I didn't even have time to react. Thank God I was going for the left part of the lane and the guy who ran the red light hugged the far right side of the lane or he would have hit me for sure. My husband and I had our helmet communicators on, and he told me that he thinks that car honked right as he ran the light--already going full speed.
I'm sure I should be way more shook up about this than I am, but I guess my philosophy is that if nothing happened, why stress about it...so I never went through the stage of needing to pull over and shake, if you know what I mean.
I consider this my closest call ever, as I never even saw the guy.
In retrospect, I totally should have been looking, even though our light had been green. You just never know when stuff like this is going to happen, right?
![Rolling Eyes :roll:](./images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif)
Edited to add diagram.