Posting about accidents

I'm not a lawyer and I'm not pretending to be one, but I'm quite sure that any good lawyer would strongly advise you not to post anything online about an accident past "I was just hit, is there a lawyer you can recommend?" or the like. This is for good reason—among other things, what you post will likely be found by a competent lawyer, and any inconsistency between what you posted and what you've said in any other context will be used against you. Might not be a bad idea to add a mention of this to the posting guidelines, just as a lot of people probably aren't aware of it or aren't thinking of it as they're understandably shook up from an accident and looking for advice.

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Permalink Reply by yaj 7.4 on July 24, 2009 at 10:10am

Or maybe we can do something like construction sites do when they count days without an incident, like this:

It has been 8 days and 300 miles since my last accident.

It seems like most folks on the chainlink are fairly frequent cyclists. And so we know that we're probably going to get in an accident eventually. I'm not sure we can really give suggestions for avoiding them, I know I couldn't have done anything to avoid my last one.