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From: dave@rocksvax.UUCP (Dave Sewhuk)
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Subject: Re: Rider training/testing
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Date: Mon, 9-Jul-84 12:47:05 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  9 12:47:05 1984
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As I lay in bed here with a cast on my leg from said crash I can say
that you sometimes get no warning.  I was passing the car that hit me
on the left when she decided to turn left into me.  She did this fine
manuever  about the time I was even with her door.  Don't worry about
jumping over the vehicle momentum takes care of that.  The bike and me
flew over the hood of her car, I landed on my back on the shoulder of
the road, the bike about 40 feet in front of me.  I could not have had
more than 3 seconds advance notice of impact, not much time to react.
I was probably going 40 when she hit me.

The only injury I sustained was a broken knee.  To those that don't
believe in the importance of proper riding clothing, please note that
the only scratch I got from this accident is the one where my watch
scraped me when it flew off from the impact.  I was wearing A Bell
Tourstar helmet (now with large grooves down the back), leather jacket,
gloves and pants and workboots.  My pants are now quite scraped up, but
my darriere and back are intact.  The doctor at the hospital told me
about some of the other people that were wearing less and told me of
their missing skin and extra breaks.  I believe my shoulder bones were
saved because I was wearing a sweater under the jacket and that helped
distribute the force of the impact more evenly.

The 3 other motorcyclists that I talked to in the hospital all had similar
circumstances of their accidents, people turning into them!  You just can't be
careful enough to avoid these clods in their automobiles!!
-- 
Dave

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