Worst Day Competition....

Lets have a competition to see if anyone has had a worse day than me...

I get up at about 1pm, and without having anything to eat or drink, I go out
for a quick ride, with the plan of getting petrol then going round my
sisters for some lunch.
Reach a roundabout at the top of town, and as I'm going straight on, a BMW
pulls on from the left, catching me with his right wing.

According to a guy who saw it, me and the bike boh flew pretty high. Anyway,
I'm lay there til a few people come over, slowly with assistance take my
helmet, then gloves and jocket off.

Get in the ambulance, where to cop comes for his little visit, says he can
get the bike taken away, but for £150 or whatever it was, so I say I'll get
the RAC to sort it for me.

Get to hospital, and ask a nurse if I can sort getting my bke picked up, and
she said that I would be able to sort it after they sorted me.

It gets to 9pm, and they've sorted me out. I have a fractured wrist, which
is now in plaster, and my left leg is hurting at the knee and ankle. Get
outside, call my sister to pick me up and sort the RAC.

The RAC go to collect the bike, and I get my sister BF to drive me past on
the way back from the hospital. We get there, and the bike has gone bu the
seat is still there, so I limp over and pick that up, then we head back
home, presuming the RAC had got there.
Turns out, they couldn't find it, so we called the police to see if they had
taken it away in the end. They hadn't.

So I know have one accident to sort out through the insurance, a fractured
wrist, and a stolen bike.

I think I need a hug...

Actually, atm I feel strangly unphased, though I'm sure it will kick in
soon.

 

Dynamic

-----> Over there

No contest from me :-((

 

Oh ffs you wuss, you've only done your fucking scaphoid. I'm kinda
surprised you went to hospital at the time and didn't sort your bike out
first before the adrenalin buzz wore off.

Top tip; do the important stuff straight after an accident 'cos the
adrenalin will stop it hurting better than painkillers.

 

Call Claims Direct. Sounds like you should sue *everyone* ;-)

 

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 23:19:32 +0100, "Dynamic"

I think you do, mate. Now, are you sure?

Take alcohol and painkillers until you pass out. When you wake up
feeling like shit - repeat. For as long as necessary.

Seriously - it will hurt like **** tomorrow, and prolly worse again
the day after. Take it easy and wolf the tablets down until your body
stops screaming at you.

Don't worry about sorting paperwork until you feel up to it.

GWS, fella.

 

I'll bet.... I'm sure someone of the lumpy jumper persuasion will be
along shortly...

Well, let's take a think on this, you're TPO insured.

Worst case scenario, they find you at fault for the accident. (unlikely
by the sound of it). So the insurance pays out on that and you end up
with a nicked bike.

Best case scenario, BMW is found at fault, his insurance pays out for a
new bike as yours was stolen whilst in hospital receiving treatment.
AIUI there was no requirement for you to have the bike recovered by
police, so you merely parked it up on roundabout becuase you needed
immeditate treatment. It then got nicked as a direct result of the accident.

Likely scenario - you'll get a letter/call from some recovery firm who
recovered it cheekily wanting you to pay a large bill and collect it.

 

I tried that, but Bonwick drank my pint rather than bringing it over.

 

*ding*

when I managed to non spectacularly do both scaphoids in the same
incident many years ago, it was about 11am. I finally got to hospital at
10pm. Having sorted bike, popped home, been shopping, seen some pals,
had dinner with the G/f and the sat down to watch TV.

That's when the hurty started to really do so.

 

<snip> tale of true misery & woe.

Sounds like you did have a shit day. But you'll probably get the bike back
ok. Bent or otherwise.
As others here have said/will say, take the pills & booze and only then sort
the paperwork out later.
Don't expect any hugs for a few 'scratches' though, I popped my
shoulder-joint at a rally last Friday, pissed as a fart, while 'fighting' a
good mate, and all I got was a good pisstaking from all concerned, SO,
'mates', *and* my kids!.
You try riding a 4 seater trike home with one hand! Did it, but I now know
the Guzzi does do scrambling.!
GWS,
JB

PS: cheers for the link to the ZZR engine. I got it.

 

JB wrote

DUH?
How do you work that one out?

Not all that good all 'round TBH.

Get a phone call to your broker asap - even if its only to say > and it
probably at this point should be no more than to say > "A prat in BMW
SMIDSYd me and was the proximal cause of the theft later *BUT the Bike
appeared unridable - it was obvious it was very badly damaged *. When I
came from the hospital it had gone". You *have* to emphasise it was
wrecked by the RTA. My guess would be the BMW's insurers will refute they
are liable for the theft - And to be fair (as in how a court would quite
feasibly see fair) neither they not the **** they insure nicked the thing.
That was some other scrote [1] :


A spot of legal advice - soon - would be prudent. If you are in AA or RAC
they can advise you, they may even arrange it free.


[1] With luck they will now die horribly as a consequence, but that may not
be an entirely reliable prospect either.


--
Nidge
ZX6R J2 Stunning in zit yellow. Bits of CB500S in Norwegian Parrot blue.
BOTAFOT#63

'Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand'.
(Homer Simpson).

 

I reckon this is good advice, if not only so that you've not liable for
any further damages/claims/injuries/tickets etc that the bike could end
up in!

 

<snip accident and theft>

Bummer, on the upside: who's faster now, eh? ;-)

Not from me you don't.....

GWS and start the drugs and drink, no matter what the government tries to
tell you....it's good

------> cue auvache ;-)

 

Using the patented Mavis Bacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Spete

**** me, don't you think the poor bastard's suffered enough?

 

Let's go over it all, shall we ... bike crash. Road impact. Bent
bike. Broken bones. Hours in Casualty. Bike stolen and still
missing. Hurting.

- versus -

auvache.

Aye, you have the right of it Nigel.

 

No, you win.

Feel better now?

 

Dynamic wrote:

Sounds like a winner to me. Look on the bright side, the So will have
to help with the masturbation

 

You think you've had a shit day. Me and my mates found this bike lying by the
side of a roundabout that had obviously been in a prang and thought we'd have it
away, only to get it home and find we'd forgotten to pick up the seat. Bugger!

GWS

Reg

 

<f/x hand shoots up>

...can I have a number please...broken collar bone, slipped on deisel.
Didn't lose my bike, but the fairing panels that were undamaged by the
accident, were done by my m8 who recovered it....

<f/x hanger goes gingerly <ouch> down>

 

<snip tales of Peter Panning>

oer.....

GWS mate.

 

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