b_saan
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So this probably isnt the right forum but being that you all come here 1st and may not ever read anything in any of the other forums I wanted to get the word out to everyone to watch for motorcycles.
On Friday I had a young lady in a Dodge Ram turn left from the oncoming left turn lane on a divided highway and broadside me without ever seeing me. She had her head turned left into the turn and never looked back up the highway to check traffic as she coasted through and then accelerated into the turn, I hammered my air horn and brakes but she never turned her head until the moment of impact. Luckily, the front of her truck pinned my leg to my bike from my knee down and fully stopped my momentum so thank God somehow I made it through in one piece. As I was laying on the ground next to my crumpled bike (she was holding my head to make sure I didnt move it) at one point I asked her if she ever saw me and she said that she didn't and never even thought to look back as she thought the highway was clear.
All of my x-rays have come back negative and I didn't have any internal bleeding in my upper body, my ER doc said he'd never seen that much tissue damage without any broken bones as the skin in front of my shin was split wide open due to the crushing pressure of the impact. He thinks my lower body muscle was the only thing that absorbed all of the impact to keep the bones from being crushed. I still need to get an MRI on my knee, hip/lower back and left elbow. While I am in pain and my mobility is limited at the moment, I thank God as I could easily have been crippled for life or killed, there's no way I should be in as good of shape as I am now.
Anyway just a reminder, you may not see that motorcycle the 1st time you look but please, double even triple check before you pull out or turn across oncoming traffic. It may just save someone's life.
On Friday I had a young lady in a Dodge Ram turn left from the oncoming left turn lane on a divided highway and broadside me without ever seeing me. She had her head turned left into the turn and never looked back up the highway to check traffic as she coasted through and then accelerated into the turn, I hammered my air horn and brakes but she never turned her head until the moment of impact. Luckily, the front of her truck pinned my leg to my bike from my knee down and fully stopped my momentum so thank God somehow I made it through in one piece. As I was laying on the ground next to my crumpled bike (she was holding my head to make sure I didnt move it) at one point I asked her if she ever saw me and she said that she didn't and never even thought to look back as she thought the highway was clear.
All of my x-rays have come back negative and I didn't have any internal bleeding in my upper body, my ER doc said he'd never seen that much tissue damage without any broken bones as the skin in front of my shin was split wide open due to the crushing pressure of the impact. He thinks my lower body muscle was the only thing that absorbed all of the impact to keep the bones from being crushed. I still need to get an MRI on my knee, hip/lower back and left elbow. While I am in pain and my mobility is limited at the moment, I thank God as I could easily have been crippled for life or killed, there's no way I should be in as good of shape as I am now.
Anyway just a reminder, you may not see that motorcycle the 1st time you look but please, double even triple check before you pull out or turn across oncoming traffic. It may just save someone's life.
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