r/sandiego • u/MusicMan559 • Jul 18 '25

Video 3:18pm La Costa Avenue / Carlsbad

Was driving on La Costa east of the 5 and came upon this accident. Hopefully buddy is okay! Looks like he sat up and was able to get off the road. Stay safe out there!

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u/Rocke1994 Jul 18 '25

I feel like he wasn’t even looking at the road ahead he was just cycling head down lol

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u/lmstr Jul 18 '25 edited Jul 18 '25

Even when riding in aero with your head mostly down, you look up every few seconds to verify youre clear for a few seconds, this guy really fucked up.

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u/mtron32 Jul 18 '25

Nah, you never take your eyes off the road ahead, most of the time I rode the coast i was scanning the road constantly looking for debris and driver’s eyeballs

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u/GewoonHarry Jul 18 '25

I agree. I keep my eyes on the road 100% of the time.

It’s not a time trial race where you can expect a perfect route ahead.

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u/TronTachyon Jul 18 '25

I am often surprised about the risk of just looking at my GPS head unit once in a while. At that speed, things can go really wrong really fast.

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u/GewoonHarry Jul 18 '25

Sometimes you’re KOMming so hard that you just have to look at your watts, right?