An Indianola bicyclist is thankful he is alive after he says he was intentionally sideswiped by a car.
This happens more often than you might think, but this time it was all caught on camera.
“It was a beautiful day. It was windy Wednesday afternoon,” Ben Carpenter said.
It was just another bicycle ride for Carpenter, until it wasn't.
“My hands are on the drop and the car skates by and hits my knuckle,” Carpenter describes. “That’s how close these guys were.” He has a hole in his glove to prove it.
A video captured by Carpenter’s CYCLIQ dashcams on the front and rear of his bike show him traveling northbound on Highway 65 and 69, just a few miles south of Indianola, when a car veers off the shoulder of the road, hitting rumble strips, and sideswiping Carpenter.
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