A couple of days ago I had a small accident whilst riding my bike. I was riding behind a hatchback up to a right hand turn when they stopped suddenly. It's amazing the number of conscious thoughts that can go through one's head in a small amount of time, when there is an impending disaster. The things I can remember thinking are:
1. Shit they're stopping and I'm going way to fast! I'm rooted.
2. Brake.
3. Why is my right hand not on the brake. There it is. Go right hand brake! (I'd probably just been indicating with my right hand or something).
4. Damn. Too much left hand (front) brake. Here we go.
5. That back windscreen was rather bouncy.

This probably happened in about half a second. I wasn't frightened or worried about injury or anything like that - just working on stopping, which is handy as that's what I needed to do. Hooray for reactions.

It was pretty lucky the way things worked out. My cleats came out, so when the bike flipped I somehow landed on my feet. There was still a lot of forward momentum, but instead of faceplanting into bitumen I had a reasonably soft landing against the back of the hatchback.

The total damage from the incident was a crack in my front light. I rode away without so much as a bruise, but my legs were a little wobbly after all the excitement.