cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
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Ouch how's the bike?
Yikes Bollo, heal well and heal fast !I was t-boned at a junction yesterday at the junction here https://goo.gl/maps/8NAzkcYcFgu. It's the approach to the very agreeable village of Hursley, home to IBM Research and old Hampshire money.
I was doing something like 20mph when she just went across me. I've never felt forces on my body like that before and I think I did most of a somersault before landing on the tarmac. I was pretty distressed.
While I'm lying there crying and hurting waiting for the ambo a passing doctor stopped and made sure I wasn't going to kark it. While he's doing an assessment another guy turns up who happens to be a surgeon. I'm pretty much using up the NHS at this point. Plod turned up and closed the road and cautioned and breathalized the driver. She was a lady in her early 70s at a guess and she admitted to just not seeing me, so there shouldn't be issues with insurance. She was pretty shocked herself.
Anyways, by some miracle I didn't break anything, but have damaged the shoulder joint and sprained an ankle. I'm beginning to suspect...... I'm ......Wolverine. Arm in a sling for a couple of weeks and no riding for a month.
No idea how the bike is as it is being looked after by a local who was first on the scene, but the front wheel is totalled. It was, as @Crackle so nicely put it, "the ugly carbon one". Pictures when I retrieve it.
I think the police have two weeks to issue a Notice of Intended Prosecution for careless driving, so keep asking them soon.Plod turned up and closed the road and cautioned and breathalized the driver. She was a lady in her early 70s at a guess and she admitted to just not seeing me, so there shouldn't be issues with insurance. She was pretty shocked herself.
That's not who's in your avatarI'm beginning to suspect...... I'm ......Wolverine.
Nasty, I hate to see any bike end up like that. Best of luck getting the replacement organised, and I hope you don't have any hassles with that.