I've been hit by a car, but it had been coming out of a convenience store's parking lot and wasn't going fast enough to do anything but wreck my bicycle. Still, glad to see that "bystander syndrome" didn't set in.
Yeah, everyone involved/who witnessed were pretty helpful, though I can say I was more than disappointed by all the traffic which simply changed lanes without so much as stopping while this poor woman lay in the street. I'm not saying EVERYONE should have stopped, but had at least one person stopped and put on their hazards and mitigated the rest of the traffic, I'd have felt much better. As it stood, I had to pull one man to safety as it was beyond dusk, and he was stepping into traffic trying to get people to drive around. Had it not been for the already present construction cones we were able to use to redirect traffic, this could easily have turned into a fatality. The area is not well lit, and our small gathering of people could have gone unnoticed until a car doing +40mph was already on top of us, or at least her who was immobile in the road.
The officer offered to give me the incident number, but I refused it as I couldn't think of any reason why I might need it, but in hindsight, I regret that. I really would like to know how that woman is doing, maybe visit her in the hospital, take her flowers, SOMETHING, but not knowing is eating at me right now.
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