I went to a friends house to do some tree trimming yesterday, and after getting all most home, I was ridding a scooter, about 30mph, when a car that I did not even see comming struck the rear of my scooter, at about 45-50mph. I was trown about fifty or more feet, and landed on the road, flipped and tombled afew time, and slid on my back, another 50-75 feet. I finnaly Come to a stop, Both kness poring the blood, and my lower back it skinned up bad, and brused. After the EMS bandaged me up some, I help load my scooter in my friends masda, and came home to lick my wounds. They tryed to hawl me to the bandade station, in the abelance, But I told the nothing was broke, and I just wanted to go home. Today I have to use a cruch to get around. Man I'm sore. The Lord Was Rideing on the Back of my Scooter I do Believe. How was your day.
I'm sorry to hear that happened to you. Sorry also that you were injured and glad it wasn't worse. Did the person that hit you get charged with anything? Did they help you? Not to piggyback onto your story, but I travel about 20 miles to work at 4:00 AM on rural roads here in Maine. The roads are frequently slick this time of year and I have to go slow. Thursday morning I was on my way to work and at an intersection near my home a log truck came out of a side road. He had a stop sign and I didn't as I was on a state highway. He looked like he was going to stop but at the last minute he blew the stop sign and pulled the truck right out in front of me. I had to lock the brakes up hard and it threw the car into a skid. I barely missed hitting the side of the trailer and barely held the car on the road. I didn't get hurt like you, but it could have been curtains. You never know when it's coming. I think it should be much more difficult to get a driver's license and fines should be dramatically increased. Charlie
What a bummer--you're lucky to be alive! Was it hit & run? Did you get the driver's insurance info? Maybe a lic plate number?
Another inattentive cage dweller. You can't put brains in statues but you can sell a car license to any moron. Glad you came out of it relatively unscathed. Always ride with decent gear - you never know when you will need it. I ride a BMW K1200RS & R1100S, and the other half's Suzuki SV650.
Man, I feel your pain. In the early 60's I was riding my cousin's motorcycle in Gretna, LA doing about 50 mph when a taxi cab made a left turn in front of me. I hit the rear brakes and started sliding. When I saw I was going to hit the cab I hit the front brakes and was thrown over the handle bars into on coming traffic. I had no skin left on my hands and knees and I was staring up at the front bumper of a car that managed to stop inches from my face. The motorcycle went directly into the side of the cab. I hope you recover soon and the SOB that did this to you gets his up comings.
Not meaning to pile on another story but bad driving really gets me. (See the thread in the Cattle Car about bad drivers.) In the early 1990's my cousin had an older Harley with a sidecar on it. That makes for a pretty big presence as far as motorcycles are concerned - as big as a small car in ways. He had been going down the Interstate and exited. At the end of the off-ramp (as usual) there was a stop sign and he stopped. The old lady that exited behind him did not stop at the stop sign and simply plowed over the bike, sidecar, and him. It was a deal where the helicopter had to come get him and he was in the hospital for a long time with a lot of surgeries, etc. They weren't sure if he was going to make it at first. Charlie
It was his fault, and I got his insurance info, ect. Maybe I can get some compesation, and bike replaced I hope. Although I may be to scared to ride for a while. I was almost killed, pretty shaken up yet. I have not been able to sleep, more than 2 or so hours at a time. Thanks for the replys, And Happy Railroading, I guess mine will be on hold till I can get back on my feet good. I'm barly getting around with one cruch. Mainly bed, bed, and more bed, bathroom, and then back to bed. I have had to get my mother to take care of my bandages, But I can do most of it.
Man, that peeves the fire guys when someone refuses treatment. They get very nervous when someone wasn't properly checked out by a doc. I hope you feel better. Next time just go to the hospital, you never know if you had internal injuries.
Man, you were lucky. Hope your recovery goes okay, and that the insurance comes through to cover your injuries and your scooter. Good time to lie in bed and leaf through some old model railroad magazines. Regards Ed
Your very lucky! Hope your recovery is a good one. I was riding a 10 speed down a hill one time when I was in 12th grade, and a car drove by wityh some kids in it, screaming something and threw a wood broom stick like a spear at me. It went right into my front wheels spokes at when it hit the front forks, I piled up hard. I had those straps that lock your feet to the pedels and I cartwheeled and slid about 100 feet done this hill. My right side was all road rashed up. The fun part was going to the hospital and them scrubbing it all down with a sponge in that iodine stuff. Talk about pain....first thing I thought of reading your story! 20+ years later, when I tan, I can still see the scars on my arm.
Dude, you should have went to the hospital. I am a EMT/firefighter, we have the rule called "Mechanism of Injury" in a nutshell it is a theory that with certain accidents, certain injures are expected, Such as: over 12" on intrusion in to a passenger compartment of a Vechile, any ejection from a vechile, roll overs, or any motorcycle/scooter accident exceeding 20 MPH. there is a lot of other situations, these are just a few. in these incidents, we call this a ALS upgrade (Advance life support). in any accident, there is 3 impacts: 1. the actually vechile(s) impacting each other. 2. your body impacting things. (steering wheel, seat belts, ground, your scooter) 3. your guts and internal goo impacting the inside of your body. the last one is the one you have to worry about, you could be bleeding inside and not even know it, some internal bleeds can go unrecognized for days, then, BAM! you are dieing, quickly. the same goes for brain bleeds. Please, Please, PLEASE!!!! go the hospital and get checked out!!! if not for your sake, for the piece of mind.
Well other than my knees, and the skinned up place on my back, I feel fine, other than the being majorly sore, the ems mashed and pocked me all over, and sayed does this hurt, what about that. I sayed only thing is hurting is the sever road rash, I did have the storage box, plastic box on the back of the bike, I think it slamed into my back, and the most of my time I was eather flying true the air, or slideing across, the ground. I dont really remimber hiting the ground, just flying, and slideing, and think when am I going to stop. Soon as I stoped. I got to my feet, and removed my helment, and walked toward the guy that hit me, and asked him what did you do.. From the way I feel It's mainley Bruseing, that hurts. And stiffness. I'm scared of the hospetilal they are mean to people, they would have killed me cleanning my wounds. They dont care if they hurt you. They are Animal Docotors out here. Sorry for being hard headed, But I am...
In reality, any landing you walk away from is a good one. But the first rule is - where you have hit the road hard remain where you landed and await help. You will have reservations about getting back on wheels but do it if you still enjoy the concept. If anything you have learned a new lesson - keep an eye open behind you as well. On a motorcycle/scooter/bicycle you are not only operating your own vehicle but that of the person in front, those in front of them and those behind you.
I had been keeping an eye out behind me, I would look into my mirrors every few seconds, and only seconds before impact, I had checked, and the road was clear, nothing in eather direction, so I thought. That is why I asked what happend, because he came from nowhere. Thanks for the kind words, and wisdom. You all are a sweel bunch of Guy's/Gal's. I can call my best friend on the phone, and he has nothing to do But sleep at home, and He only will talk to me for afew minutes on the phone, and He has to do something, Utill he mess's up his computer, then He will talk with me till I get if fixed, or till I tell him how to fix it. I have done many many hours/days work for him around his home, I do odd jobs to make a liveing, any ways. Seems like only people that really listens are you'all, here and on other forums. No one seems to care for me unless I can fix, or help them out..... Besides my mom&dad of course. Yall are good friends in my book, eventhou I have never sawe you.
There not enough strictness in licencing motorists. I drive trains for a living and every three years have to undergo re-accreditation courses and regular monitoring and a thorough medical every two years, and have to be able to recite from memory every signal, switch, and speed limit of every route I operate over, but once you get your drivers licence that's it for life, you can drive a car virtually anywhere an the world, you just plonk your money on the counter every five years and they renew it, where I live they don't even give you an eye test anymore because they've deemed the clerks at the licence centre aren't qualified to do it. I have much more potential to cause accidents driving my car than my train. The fact that there aren't more accidents like yours is just luck more than anything else.
All the best wishes for your speedy recovery. My tendency would have been to avoid the meat wagon but see if I could get someone to take me to the hospital for a checkup. This would drive some people nuts, I know. You gotta be careful if there's even a CHANCE of a back injury. My brother-in-law was an EMT for a while and saw one guy permanently paralyze himself because he refused treatment, stepped off a curb with a crack spine, and everything shifted and cut his spinal cord. Ouch! Hijacking the thread... I got in a bad wreck (as a passenger) when I was eighteen. I was in the passenger seat of a 1981 Ford Econoline van, and we were traveling about 70 mph in the left lane of Highway 101 in California, somewhere between Salinas and King City. Some drunk guy in a 1970s Riviera swerved up into the grass median and then "caught some major air" (in the parlance of California skateboarders) and crashed into us at about 15 degrees off of head-on. I know it's cliche, but I really did think this was curtains as I watched that car fly through the air towards where I was sitting in the van. I thought I was done. I still sometimes can't believe i am here. I lucked out. I got some bad bruises from my seatbelt, some cuts on my knees from dashboard plastic (nothing serious), my shoulder on my right side got wrenched about a bit (which my chiropractor uncle later fixed), and I got some bruised ribs out of the deal. They did an EKG and then another EKG looking for damage. It was only when they got my medical records from Portland (faxed?) that they found out that I have a slightly larger than normal heart anyway (something I inherited - can't remember the name of the condition but it's not life threatening or dangerous) and that I didn't have a heart screwed up by the wreck. Everyone else in our car had some bruising. One of my sisters got a wrist sprain out of the deal. It wasn't fun. The other guy got knocked around more than we did, but was uninsured and had no license anyway. I understand he lived.
You sure are and I am not being insulting to you my friend but you are making a horrid mistake by thinking that way. Secondly, I don't see where the police were called. It's the law in most places that whenever there is an accident that the police take a report. If the other driver is impaired, unlicensed, uninsured, etc., then this protects you. You can bet that if the other driver was impaired or not supposed to be behind the wheel that they don't want you to notify the police. They way you appeared to handle it, you left yourself with no recourse and if the other driver refuses to pay you're stuck as you can't prove anything. I was involved in a very minor fender-bender with no injuries a few years ago. It only put a small dent in both cars. The other driver was a high school-aged girl. We exchanged insurance information and went on our way. I went directly home and notified my insurance company. The first question they asked was which police agency it was reported to. I told them that since it was so minor that it had not been reported. They said they would not handle it unless it had been reported. So, I went directly to the police station and reported it. The cop that took the report wasn't pleased and I had to do some talking to keep from getting a ticket for leaving the scene of an accident. Charlie
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