Yes, there was another truck incident. However, this time we accept no fault and should we ever meet the driver of this truck he won't be getting a drink.
We were riding through Huapai on St Hwy 16 (Yes, same bloody road and all), doing about 30-35 km, when the driver of an articulated rig decided to do a u-turn right smack bang in front of us. Articulated trucks take up a lot of road space so there was no going around this guy. To cut a long story short, Rob managed to throw himself half out of the trike before making a recovery (of sorts).
See accompanying photo showing the extensive wounds suffered by that brave soul Rob.
Funnily enough, John having very restricted forward vision only, couldn't see Rob flailing alongside the trike and assumed he had fallen out completely somewhere back up the road. The idea of being stuck in the back of an out of control tandem at 35 km/hr didn't upset John at all for some peculiar reason. He was, however, pleased and somewhat surprised to find that Rob had reappeared in the front seat by the time the trike came to a stop.
We have since reassessed our collision evasion strategy.
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