my accident

[tom.c]

On Tuesday arvo I was riding my bike around my street practising manuals and what not... Anyway I normally always wear a helmet but then I figured I won’t bother because I’m just outside my house and it’s a hot day. Anyway I was just about to head inside, when I thought I might just try wall ride this island in the middle of my street. So, I road across the street perpendicular to mine so I could get a run-up into the wallride... Anyway I looked right, then left, as I had always been told then start pedalling out. Next I looked right and saw a 4wd heading towards me. The last thing I remember was thinking wether I should try and get out passed the 4wd or brake and try to stop. The next thing I remember is lying on the ground with people over the top of me, this lasted about 5 seconds. From there, I didnt remember anything until the hospital where some policeman was talking to me except I don’t remember what he was saying, talking about or what he looked like. I then spent 6 hours in hospital until my mum and my gf took me home later that night.

So now it is Thursday and I'm getting better. When the 4wd hit me, I had tried to get out in front of it and it had just clipped my back wheel. I had a look at my bike the other day surprisingly it is okay... the only thing wrong is that the rear wheel is horribly disfigured. Anyway I also learnt that in the ambulance on the way to the hospital I couldn’t remember who I was or how old I was or what year it is. Funnily enough, the only thing I could remember was my gf’s mobile number who I told my mum to call to say I was alright. Also at the hospital, I was given 4 stitches just to right of my eye. Finally, all of my cuts, bruises and scars are from gravel rash... nothing is due to me actually hitting the car.

Today, I decided to write this up because I learnt a few valuable lessons... To always wear my helmet, no matter how close to home I am or how hot it is and even though it may not have saved me all my cuts and bruises, it might have stopped some pain at least. Next, to be more grateful for all of the body parts because I could have easily lost a hand or a foot and I play piano and surf and play football, so I use everything... Finally, I’m going to treasure my friends even more than before, because I came quite close to dying and so many people have shown me so much support, whilst this also showing me who my real friends are because others have not bothered to call or even ask about me... Anyway I have probably left a few things out but if I have made a few spelling mistakes in here or started using msn talk, then don’t be angry, because I’m still recovering and cant concentrate too well..... and ENJOY BEING ABLE TO LIVE!

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[tom.c]

One more thing.... if there are any ambulance people or people who work at hospitals on here... then i thank you, because you just are the lifesavers out there... cheers.

[Povi]

dont worry chicks dig scars :p

hope u get better and get back on the bike

[Jarrad]

Wow, your pretty damn lucky dude. I hope you have a quick recovery. Hope you aren't out of action for too long.

[jaseh]

mate, you learnt your lesson the hard way. I hope others can learn from this and always wear their helmets.
I hope you have a speedy recovery.

[Dozer]

I don't need to repeat how lucky you are.....
Your message about wearing a helmet should be adherred to by every person who rides a bike anywhere they go because you proved that anything can happen anywhere you go.
It's a shame some of your friends aren't talking to you but maybe they are just giving you some space and time to recover, don't write them off just yet.


Did the driver of the vehicle tell you how close you got to nailing the wallride?:rolleyes:

Get well soon!

[ajay]

Ah, dude its good to hear you survived! Its funny, we never seem to really learn a lesson until we experience the consequences!

A similar thing happened to me a few weeks ago, got in a car with a mate after a few beers, ended up doing a front flip and multiple barrel rolls into a field. We both should've died 3 times over, but miraculously we didnt. Sure we learnt our lesson, but it took being 1inch death for it to sink in!

Oh, the memory loss thing is a doozy eh! I (ironically) remember not being able remember the year and all that too, strange feeling that was...

Best of luck for your recovery:)

[Doggy]

Good to hear you are alright. Just dont write your friends off too soon, if they are anything like me and all my mates, we are a apathetic bunch...but we really do care when its called for:D

[bunyajumper]

damn your one lukky boy
get well soon

[sygote]

close call hey, ure so lucky and so is the driver considering he would have been pretty upset when they hit you, lucky your gona be alrite

[J-ack]

i just wanna know: have you gone back and nailed the wallride?















really lucky mate, alot of us farkers have seemingly come really close to death

[tom.c]

nar i havent gone back and nailed the wallride yet.... i might have to wait a couple of weeks to get my energy back and get a new bike to do that first though.... i just took the bandage off my head to have a look at the cuts and its pretty shocking. ahwell. it can only get better i suppose. my recovery is going pretty well otherwise, because the hospital used some new silicon bandages of some sort, which actually don't stick to your scabs when you peel them off so its all good letting them air out... and im not actually feeling any pain like headaches or constant nausea, which im apparently supposed to feel.... so yer its looking up, and im actually looking forward to going out riding when i get a new ride...

[Fresh]

daaaaamn.....at least ur alive man. not only that, at least u only have flesh wounds, n not like, paralysed legs or no feet :( seriously man, i hope other ppl pay attention to stuff like this, cos i've seen ur street, and it looks pretty safe to me, but then again, look wat happened.

get well soon man

[brad of sydney]

holy crap tom that sucks! how fast was the car going?
hope you get better soon. good luck witht the recovery.

[Kona Cam]

one word. ouch

[Gekigengar]

and im not actually feeling any pain like headaches or constant nausea, which im apparently supposed to feel.... so yer its looking up, and im actually looking forward to going out riding when i get a new ride...

drugs :) get off the morphine. and then you will feel pain! ....

actually dont... just predent u feel pain to get more :D

[letthiswork1]

Nice... thats pretty impressive! did it hurt? cause yeh... since u passed out and everything! well i hope u get better and u can ride around ru street with a helmet on soon:D

[tom.c]

well, my recovery is going pretty well and i am already wanting to go for a ride..... im so bored at home... Also: i was just talking to my neighbour about the accident and i recieved a few more bits of info.... the car was going about 40-50km/h when it hit me... also, the driver said that she actually hit me full on and i was flipped over the bullbars then thrown across the bonnet.... anyway i gonna ask for some money to invest in a new bike (or my parents shall). My parents didn't want to before as we weren't sure about whose fault it was, yet now the driver's recount is actually starting to sound quite dodgy and they have agreed to help me (it sounds like she was on the wrong side of the road). hopefully this will all end up getting me some extra money to invest in a new setup.... :)

[Povi]

my recovery is going pretty well otherwise, because the hospital used some new silicon bandages of some sort, which actually don't stick to your scabs when you peel them off so its all good letting them air out...

i got that when i lost half the skin on the right side of my body:p its the best stuff because it also helps to heal cuts a lot quicker and i think its has disinfectant in it

[Mr jesus]

well, my recovery is going pretty well and i am already wanting to go for a ride..... im so bored at home... Also: i was just talking to my neighbour about the accident and i recieved a few more bits of info.... the car was going about 40-50km/h when it hit me... also, the driver said that she actually hit me full on and i was flipped over the bullbars then thrown across the bonnet.... anyway i gonna ask for some money to invest in a new bike (or my parents shall). My parents didn't want to before as we weren't sure about whose fault it was, yet now the driver's recount is actually starting to sound quite dodgy and they have agreed to help me (it sounds like she was on the wrong side of the road). hopefully this will all end up getting me some extra money to invest in a new setup.... :)

no offence dude but either way you were in the wrong. a) u werent wearing a helmet b) you say you looked both ways and didnt see anything, so your saying she appeared out of know where?
eiter way its your fault but get better soon man, dont pick the scabs!

[chriscross]

when i woke up in an ambulance i asked were my bike was and if it was ok. when they told me the forks were snapped and my mates had it i said to the ambulance person " If they break it they'll be were i am"

[Frazzle]

well, my recovery is going pretty well and i am already wanting to go for a ride..... im so bored at home...

I know how you feel, its such a bummer when you injure yourself caus you cant ride which seems to take up so much time in your life. Atm im sitting here typing with 1 hand due to having a sprained elbow and ligament damage in my wrist from a dumb crash. (I still get a few days off school)

Hope ypu get better mate and i hope you dont die of boredom like i currently am.

Fraser

[tom.c]

no offence dude but either way you were in the wrong. a) u werent wearing a helmet b) you say you looked both ways and didnt see anything, so your saying she appeared out of know where?
eiter way its your fault but get better soon man, dont pick the scabs!

no offence taken... and im not gonna argue with the helmet because i know i was wrong not to wear it, but i will say i would still have copped most of the damage. Also, she did appear out of nowhere because she turned out of another street just up the road, going into the one i was on and we also think she was speeding.. ohwell.. i have school work i can do now anyway, so that will atleast killl some time..

[robmundall]

no offence dude but either way you were in the wrong. a) u werent wearing a helmet b) you say you looked both ways and didnt see anything, so your saying she appeared out of know where?

a) If he was not wearing a helmet how was it is fualt the accident occured?

b)the car could have pulled out of a driveway and she was not looking propley after she pulled out, or mabey there is a coner nearby?
either way she was on the wrong side of the road. (edit: conformation from the above post)

Jeezz women drivers

Please don't hurt me, it was a harmless joke, ohh i'm screwed:p

[Mr jesus]

the helmet things is because if he didnt get significant head traumer se would not be liable. And he never said she came out of a street wich he has now confirmed so i take back what i said.

[tom.c]

it seems like my initial inspection of my bike was incomplete (i just took it down to the lbs), not only is my rear wheel disfigured, but:

-the whole frame is bent
-the rear derailer is bent
-the rear chain rings are bent
-the front chain rings are bent
-the handlebars are bent
-something wrong with the bottom bracket
-the cranks are bent
-the seat post has been crushed

this means my bike has been written off (hooray!!) and now i will have enough motivation to really start a new project... i was thinking about it actually dont know how i survived without bone breakage considering my bike.... but hey

[Frazzle]

And your body wasnt bent in anyway?

[W2ttsy]

of course if it had been a car and not a toorak tractor, then im sure it would have been less violent. god damn SUVs in small streets. as for being on the wrong side of the road, what the fuck? it takes 17 meters for a sedan to stop hard at 50km/h, maybe 20 meters for a SUV. how did she not hit you? or did she just not bother braking?

did this woman even wait for the police to turn up? or is she getting done for leaving the scene of an accident? also, if its new south wales, then she would have broken brendan's law too which is failing to render assistance at the scene of an accident in which you were involved or witnessed.

good luck with your recover. accidents are never fun...

W2ttsy

[lewie]

i had a similar accident except i ran into the car which kind of was stationary:o but there was someone in there i did this little drop and then i was going for a car so i hit my front brake i was on stones so my front tyre slid out from under me and i hit the car....but i was fine got back up and rode home from skool...i thought it was kinda clumsy and funny after a while

lewie

[Tristan23]

i had a similar accident except i ran into the car which kind of was stationary:o but there was someone in there i did this little drop and then i was going for a car so i hit my front brake i was on stones so my front tyre slid out from under me and i hit the car....but i was fine got back up and rode home from skool...i thought it was kinda clumsy and funny after a while

lewie

start a thread about it...that'd be cool.:cool:

[lewie]

start a thread about it...that'd be cool.:cool:

meh cant be stuffed

[S.]

of course if it had been a car and not a toorak tractor, then im sure it would have been less violent. god damn SUVs in small streets. as for being on the wrong side of the road, what the fuck? it takes 17 meters for a sedan to stop hard at 50km/h, maybe 20 meters for a SUV. how did she not hit you? or did she just not bother braking?

did this woman even wait for the police to turn up? or is she getting done for leaving the scene of an accident? also, if its new south wales, then she would have broken brendan's law too which is failing to render assistance at the scene of an accident in which you were involved or witnessed.

good luck with your recover. accidents are never fun...

W2ttsy

SUV? They're called 4wds over here in Australia mate. That and if you care to look up what the stopping distance of a modern 4wd vs a modern sedan... they are the same (check the NRMA site for evidence). Get over the finger-pointing bullshit and have a look at what's happened here:
- guy rides out in front of moving vehicle because one way or another he didn't see it
- guy gets cleaned up and injured by said vehicle

Tom: sorry to hear that you got injured mate, cos people obviously just make mistakes, but don't try and pin blame on other people if it's undue. For starters, if she appeared out of a side street quick enough to get to you between you looking and you riding out onto the road, then that side street had to be very close by, which makes it very unlikely that she COULD have been exceeding the speed limit. That combined with the fact that stepping into the path of a moving vehicle is generally considered a mistake, would indicate that you are pretty much entirely at fault here. Don't take this as a personal attack or anything, I have nothing against you - just be honest and fair!

[tom.c]

Tom: sorry to hear that you got injured mate, cos people obviously just make mistakes, but don't try and pin blame on other people if it's undue. For starters, if she appeared out of a side street quick enough to get to you between you looking and you riding out onto the road, then that side street had to be very close by, which makes it very unlikely that she COULD have been exceeding the speed limit. That combined with the fact that stepping into the path of a moving vehicle is generally considered a mistake, would indicate that you are pretty much entirely at fault here. Don't take this as a personal attack or anything, I have nothing against you - just be honest and fair!

Dont worry, i dont take anything personally.... and no, im not putting all of the blame on her, yet i dont think it was my fault either.. Considering that she may have been halfway on the wrong side of the road when she hit me(thats what we now believe) this means she would have been able to turn out of the street (about 50m up the road) and have retained most of the speed she already had (taking a wider arc means momentum is conserved). Also, since the road she turned out of is uphill from where i was hit.... it means she can accelerate faster... and as for the car being a 4wd.... well lets just say my knees may not hurt as much now (direct hit from the bullbars) if i was hit by a sedan.... just my thought..

[Mr jesus]

how big is your road because my road can only fit a bout a car and a half so theres no real wrong side?

[Binaural]

Dont worry, i dont take anything personally.... and no, im not putting all of the blame on her, yet i dont think it was my fault either.. Considering that she may have been halfway on the wrong side of the road when she hit me(thats what we now believe) this means she would have been able to turn out of the street (about 50m up the road) and have retained most of the speed she already had (taking a wider arc means momentum is conserved). Also, since the road she turned out of is uphill from where i was hit.... it means she can accelerate faster... and as for the car being a 4wd.... well lets just say my knees may not hurt as much now (direct hit from the bullbars) if i was hit by a sedan.... just my thought..

While bullbars can make a small crash much worse, that is of no account in a court of law since they have a legitimate purpose and can be legally attached to the front of a car. I don't like to see then around the city, but I am no fan of 4WD/SUVs either.

To summarize your post, you seem to be claiming the person who hit you was still pulling into their side of the lane 50m down the road. From a driver's perspective, this does not seem too likely unless the road is narrow and not really two lanes wide, in which case the driver may legitimately be slightly to the centre of the road.

Are there any skid marks from before contact? Seems to me that unless you got cleaned up without brakes there should be some marks on the road that should clear up once and for all where the contact point was.

[konaboy]

dude, you lucky, but you got to admit that, that is just plain nasty. Hope you recover well:rolleyes:

[tom.c]

the street is quite wide... you could have two parked cars on either side and then have 2 cars pass each other at this point still with lots of room between... also, the centre of the road is quite higher than the sides, which dip away, meaning that quite a lot of people tend to stay towards the centre.. since there are no lane markings, that makes it even harder... and as for skid marks, well there are none. but i dont really care what happened anymore... my parents said they would help me start up a new ride if the woman does nothing.... now im just going to wait.

[ajay]

Dont worry, i dont take anything personally.... and no, im not putting all of the blame on her, yet i dont think it was my fault either.. Considering that she may have been halfway on the wrong side of the road when she hit me(thats what we now believe) this means she would have been able to turn out of the street (about 50m up the road) and have retained most of the speed she already had (taking a wider arc means momentum is conserved). Also, since the road she turned out of is uphill from where i was hit.... it means she can accelerate faster... and as for the car being a 4wd.... well lets just say my knees may not hurt as much now (direct hit from the bullbars) if i was hit by a sedan.... just my thought..

Mate, how much speculation do you want to throw at this?

There seems to be nothing (that you have posted anyway) that suggests she was in the wrong. Just a heap of "it may have been possible that she was doing this" stories.

Suck it up, you entered an intersection neglegently, while trying to wallride a round-a-bout!:rolleyes: you got hit. Wear it and move on and just be thankful your parents aren't arranging your funeral.

Anyway, I hope you get better and nail the wallride, but at least have someone with you so they can ensure the intersection is free.;)

[tom.c]

agreed.. this thread is finished.

[S.]

Dont worry, i dont take anything personally.... and no, im not putting all of the blame on her, yet i dont think it was my fault either.. Considering that she may have been halfway on the wrong side of the road when she hit me(thats what we now believe) this means she would have been able to turn out of the street (about 50m up the road) and have retained most of the speed she already had (taking a wider arc means momentum is conserved). Also, since the road she turned out of is uphill from where i was hit.... it means she can accelerate faster... and as for the car being a 4wd.... well lets just say my knees may not hurt as much now (direct hit from the bullbars) if i was hit by a sedan.... just my thought..

Well it was someone's fault, and generally - regardless of what the law says - stepping/riding out in front of a moving car = not a good move.

It'd be pretty easy for a car to end up on the wrong side of the road if she, as a wild speculation, swerved in an attempt to avoid hitting you.

Anyway regardless of who's at fault, get better and nail the wallride... but this time look before you cross the road :)

[jack jovic]

what bike DID you have.if it was a good one you could trash it a bit and get them to get you a new one a 2007 mdel or somthing. :D

[Bambi]

Get well soon budday