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#1 ·
On Friday 5/28, a car pulled out in front of me. She pulled out and stopped. Could not stop or go around, so ended up hitting her left front fender. Sailed over her hood and landed on pavement. broke right leg just below knee and left arm near wrist. L1 compression fracture also. Much pain involved, but I’m alive!
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Not dead, just look that way!
 
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It's good that you have injuries you can quickly recover from, and hoping your red baby can mend too. My father-in-law was not so lucky... we bought our Scramblers together but after only 3 months a car drove into the back of him at a red light, and he was much worse off, 2 years later and he still needs more surgery. No more riding for him, sadly. But so glad we still have him.

Looking forward to updates as you heal.
 
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Get well soon! Glad you'll recover and hope it won't discourage you from motorcycles ✊
 
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Wowzer !! So sorry to hear this. I too have had a few street crashes which resulted in broken bones and at our age they take a lot longer to heal from. Here's hoping your recovery is not too long and not too painful. Take it easy and get well soon....

Don
 
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1 week today! Painful, yes. Mostly just difficult to move around. My children and wife have really stepped up. Bike is home and in shed. Looks like front fender, front wheel, right mirror, farings would get her back in order.
Porsche has been moved and is on maintainer, won’t be able to drive it for a while.
Video of accident not very impressive. Seeing it makes one think I could have driven around her. I was worried she might pull forward. So I plowed right into her during braking.
Too early to make decisions on giving up bike. Giving up for today and near future for sure!
 
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Super sorry to hear this. Accidents are no fun. Having family to step up and help is a really great thing, though.

Your bike will be fixable in no time.

Heal well.
 
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I might share a little but about claims. Thirty years ago I did some sheet time and missed six weeks of work due to an unfortunate accident. Here are few terms and rules that might be helpful:

1. Pain and Suffering. One way to determine the dollar value of P&S is to just total the medical and rehab bills and negotiate a multiplier against it, usually the bigger the medical bill, the smaller the multiplier. Say, your medical costs totaled $30k, there could be a multiplier of 2 1/2 times and that would $75k. Obviously that it's an example and certainly the multiplier is "negotiable".

2. Out of pocket. Any medical bills not paid by insurance obviously would be a claim. And consider that usually your health insurance and liability insurance companies will subrogate those claims and settle among the insurance companies. But anything that falls through the cracks should be claimed. Obviously the cost of the motorcycle. Also, the value of lost earnings, sick leave and vacation time paid from your work; you've lost that, you're entitled to the value of it. And consider your time and travel, mileage, etc., for anything related to the accident, the recovery and administration of claims.

3. Residual Impairment. This would be any long term effects from the accident. This is something that would need to be determined by a professional care giver or medical cost specialist. I am unfamiliar with the workings of how that claim is determined, other than knowing the term.

Hope this helps. I had to do a lot of this research 30 years. Luckily I was able to negotiate this by myself and had no lingering effects of the accident.
 
#27 ·
You probably made the right decision to plow into her. I have a friend that lost a leg by trying to go around a car that didn’t stop at a stoplight and the plowed into his side and broke his leg so badly it had to be amputated
He would have been better off to plow into the car. Hard to second guess. Way to many variables. Hope your feeling better soon and enjoying the Porsche and the Ducati soon
 
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