I live in a private housing estate where cars are park in an unorderly manner. As I was cycling to work today, a car reversed into me. It was blocked by another car which was parked next to it.

I'm blessed as the car was relatively slow in reversing. I tried to stop when I saw it but I was too near and too late. My left leg was sandwiched between the car and my pedal as I had I imediately placed my foot on the ground to keep myself from falling over. The result is an awful bruise on my calf which hurts whenever I exert the muscles there. Praise God, I still have my leg in one piece. It could have been worst if I had been throw off the bicycle.

The driver reprimanded me for going too fast... which I wasn't and could not due to a speed phobia I've developed after an old accident. I didn't want to argue with him because I was still in the state of shock and needed to get to school. I just nodded and pray I could get out of his nonsensical lecture quickly.(He was more like trying to blame me instead of himself for the accident). In my opinion, it was any of our fault but the fault of the that car parked in an unsuitatble spot resulting in the view being blocked. The uncle could have parked his car with the boot into his house instead of bonnet in to help avoided this accident.

Anyway, thankfully he didn't make me pay damages to his car.. I didn't really see any but I expect there would be a scratch. If he had made me pay, I would have insisted on medical coverage for my painful bruise. Since we are sort of neighbours, I'll let the matter rest as long as he doesn't pursue it.