Updated: Never — Philip's Blog

Roadworks be damned. As I was biking to the station this morning, I had a somewhat unpleasant encounter with a car. I'm not quite sure whose fault it was, the roadworks made the situation somewhat ambiguous, but we'll assume that since the girl driving the car was more shocked than I, it was probably her fault. Who cares about assigning blame anyway?

Looking back, it must have been rather amusing. I smashed into the car basically face first and managed to bite my lip and bruise my chin. Other than that, I only dented my ego slightly and the front wheel of my bike is not entirely straight anymore.

Assuming neither of us was travelling at anywhere near the speed of light, I estimate the amount of kinetic energy being turned into "damage" was on the order of 1700J. v² really is a bitch.

Bruises heal fast.