This happened in the middle of a residential area with homemade signs saying "Cat Crossing" to please remind people to slow down.
It has been an issue with bikes and cars for as long as I remember. When I was a kid my friend Bill Cole, (I think his name was,) was killed in front of his house riding a bike. I think he was only five or six years old.
You would hope that your kids and pets would be somewhat safe around your house but people seem to be driving very fast.
E-bikes are faster than regular bikes but you can't keep up with traffic the way people are driving now. Perhaps if they topped out at 30 miles per hour like the old mopeds you could just ride the traffic lane and not so many people would be trying to pass.
Riding over to the side seems to give you less visibility and more people pull out in front of you because they don't see anything in the traffic lane. When I used to ride a motorcycle I would edge over more in the lane when I saw someone about to right turn out into the lane. That way you can react better if they do pull out and it makes you more visible. Lots of people don't hardly even stop and just pull right out into the lane blowing through the stop sign when turning right.
Perhaps more information than needed but I've had a few brake checks recently, lol.
My older brother rode his bike EVERYWHERE when he was a teenager, before he got his license. He was hit one time, but he was lucky in that besides scrapes and bruises, only one of his ankles was really damaged and it did heal after some time.... and it wasn't on a narrow road at all. It was very scary.
I have noticed over the past year that more people seem to be in a hurry and seem to get angry if anything slows them down. I'm sure some of that always existed, but it DOES seem to be more of it now. I wondered if it was just me that noticed that. Add to that these days, the distraction of cell phones and I can only imagine that if you are on a bike of any kind, you have got to be constantly second guessing what other people do and whether or not they even see you.
There use to be slower speed limits posted in residential neighborhoods. I know that doesn't make all people follow the rules, but at least there was some effort to keep it slower. A few miles from my house, in those few blocks of residential neighborhoods, someone has a mailbox on a brick structure at the road and they have a sign there that says. "Drive Like Your Children Live Here".....