i was hit by a car
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- thenuge
wednesday night i went for a bike ride with a friend. we rode around st louis for a few hours and i headed back to my neighborhood pretty late. i was 4 blocks from my house when i was hit by a car. i was at a 4 way intersection, no one was there, a car was headed south towards me, but was slowing down for the stop sign, so i proceeded to pull out into the intersection, about 30 feet away, the car suddenly sped up, blew through the stop sign and hit me. i'll never forget the sound. i went over the hood of the car and i think part of my body hit the top of the windshield on the passenger side. my head connected with the street first. the car made a uturn and took off the way it came.
i never wore bike helmets very often but i'm glad i had one on. the doctors said if i hadnt' been wearing a helmet i would have some serious brain trauma. i was very lucky. the right side of my head is extremely bruised, part of my right ear was torn off, but it was sewn back on. my neck is seriously strained, the right side of my body is all road rash, my right knee is the size of a basketball and my left thumb was shattered. other than that i'm just really sore and heavily medicated.
i know alot of people on here ride bikes and bike commute. i just want to say, be careful and wear a helmet.
- MashPotatoesJohnson0
Pics or ban
- ninjasavant0
did you have your compound bow? you should have taken him out. glad you're ok though.
- utopian10
f%#&* biking
- canuck0
A guy posted about being hit with a car door while riding yesterday.
- Jaline0
Sorry to hear that. I'm glad you will probably be OK with time. Good luck.
- barbtastic0
damn this scares me... thanks for the reminder.
fuck that guy for nearly killing you then taking off, any chance of tracking them down?
- thenuge0
i filed a police report but they havn't found the car yet
- robotron3k0
you are lucky. and you need to get a settlement for possible future injury that may appear in later years. congrats on your survival.
- nikdaum0
Glad you're relatively okay. It could always be a lot worse. I got in a similar accident while on a scooter, ended updoing a mid air cartwheel and smashing the car roof, losing a shoe, and sliding across the intersection on my back, but I was even luckier in the injury dept. I had a jacket and fullface helmet and jeans.
- armsbottomer0
glad to hear your not seroiusly injured. i was doored for the first time yesterday, but it doesn't sound nearly as bad as your horror story. i hope they find the driver and put him away. feel better.
- dirtydesign0
sounds like the car was trying to hit you...
- MSTRPLN0
I never wear a helmet either but now I think i'm sold on buying one ...
Get well soon man!
- Meeklo0
oh man.. sorry to hear that
- MSTRPLN0
On the shopping list now ....
- CALLES0
did he hit you in the nudge?
- fooler20
I was bounced around an intersection when I was 16. Wasn't wearing a helmet and had no head trauma. I did break my pelvis into 4 pieces, compound fracture of the right fibula and tibula, busted spleen and collapsed lung. After 6-12 months in and out of hospitals and rehab I was fully recovered, minus some serious scars but chicks dig scars right?
A coworkers husband was hit 2 months ago and wasn't so lucky. Some guy decided to hold up a convent store for a twelve pack of beer and as he speed out of the parking he ran over him and speed off. They caught him the next day and he's still in jail. But the guy I know has been in and out of a coma and mat never talk or walk again.
