You are a glass bottle, cars are rocks.

On a bicycle you are a glass bottle, cars are rocks.
If you hit a glass bottle against a rock, the glass bottle breaks.
If you hit a glass bottle with a rock, the glass bottle breaks.
Either way the bottle is broken.
Don't be a broken bottle.
Ride safe, ride smart, don't hit cars, don't get in the way of cars so they might hit you.

The only safe place to be in an accident, is not in it, but away from it watching it. If you are in the wrong place at the wrong time, you will be in the accident and not watching it.

Think safe, think, "I am a glass bottle, that car is a rock."

I highly recommend the web site on Bike Safety by Michael Bluejay, "Bicycle Safety: How not to get hit by a car."

I already use all his safety suggestions, except I ride on the sidewalk along all busy roads. Many of our roads in Lee County and Ft. Myers do not have bike lanes. And with cars being operated over the speed limits there is no safety margin for drivers to respond to bicyclists at the right hand side of the road way.

BUT when on the sidewalk with my bike I always remind myself, I am a pedestrian, I must stop at any intersection or driveway to allow cars to move freely.....I am a glass bottle....I am a glass bottle....I am glass....