I'll say it again, Don't outdrive your brain, your skill, your reflexes or your headlights and do drive as if you're invisible. It's served me well (never dropped one or been down in over 55 years of riding).
Actually, my personal thought is that when I'm on my bike, I drive like I'm a refugee from the movie "Death Race 2000!" That all the cars are driven by angry, homocidal maniacs who are out to run me down.
And I'm afraid to say that I dropped my brand new Ducati 900SP on the second and third days that I owned it... Once on each side! Damned EPA! It was jetted so lean from the factory that unless I revved the engine to about 3000RPM when I took off from a start, it would backfire through the carbs and stall! Those first 2 times took me by surprise and I couldn't get my feet back down off the pegs in time to save it. The dealer wanted me to give it at least a little bit of a break-in, at least a few hundred miles before rejetting the carbs, but I returned it to be done (and get my high, carbon fiber cans and K&N air filter) at less than 200 miles. It was just too dangerous to ride. Forget dropping it, stalling the bike at a stop light could easily be fatal.
Mark