Now for the highlight of the week: I GOT HIT BY A CAR! My entire mission I’ve wondered what to do if i was hit by a car and it finally happened. We were cruising down a hill known by the elders as Superman Hill, because it’s the biggest hill in the mission. I was definitely going about 30 miles an hour because I was going with the flow of traffic.
The light at the bottom of the hill was green so I just went through at the bottom of the hill. But then a car approaching from the opposite direction turned left in front of me and didn’t see me speeding down the hill.
My brakes are terrible on my bike. It’s hard to stop even when I’m not going fast. So there was no way for me to stop or avoid the collision. I saw it coming though, so I instinctively stood up on my pedals and I jumped up and over the car just before my the car slammed into my bike (this is intense right?)…
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