BIKE: Re: not-fatal accident on 360

[Lane Wimberley]

For those keeping score at home, I saw this on another 
"sport" riding list.  And, also for the statistics (I can't remember
if I mentioned this before): the driver who hit me last August
also was not ticketed.

"Jay Bond was struck from behind by a car today while returning from 
Freewheeling Ride. He was riding solo coming in on Burleson just 
before Montopolis when an elderly gentleman was somehow distracted 
(unticketed by the police) and drove into Jay's rear wheel which 
launched him over the bars. I got the details from Jay this evening 
as he'd just gotten home after an afternoon spent in the Brack 
emergency room. He's got quite a bit of road rash on his back with a 
probable broken wrist and possible broken ankle. He'll know more 
tomorrow after visiting a specialist. Jay related how he didn't hear 
the car coming and only realized something was wrong when everything 
went slow motion as he was flying through the air."


-Lane

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:29:44 -0600, Kevin Lewis
<klewis> wrote:
>  
> This post, from another list, involved a "sport" rider (expert-level) on a
> quick bike, on a nice Sunday, Jan. 16. It coulda been anyone. Fortunately
> not fatal, but multiple fractures is bad enough. Add to the ongoing
> questions of how best to ride a 65-mph road. I did not hear other reportage,
> but as far as I know, blame was not assessed. 
>   
> Kevin 
>   
>   
> ...Seriously, Tim's "lucky" to only have a seriously broken right leg and
> more road rash and bruises then he ever desired. He told me that he was
> heading north on 360 and was crossing the on-ramp from 2222. He looked and
> saw a car coming but felt he had plenty of gap to come across. The older
> lady driving the car apparently was intent on looking left / to her rear for
> oncoming traffic, and basically never saw Tim signaling as she accelerated
> to highway speed and ran him down from the rear.  Yeah – big ouch. 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> The impact point was at his rear wheel and he was soon one with the car's
> windshield and then 30m down the road.  As he looked at his formerly intact
> right leg he knew he was not having a good day on the bike, with compound
> fractures to the upper and lower leg bones.  Fortunately a physician saw him
> go down and was on the scene immediately, with Fire / Rescue just minutes
> away. 
> 
> Lessons learned: helmets are good, the car always wins so be super careful
> especially in the merging lanes where they are accelerating, and helmets are
> good.  All for now 
> 
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