-Hit from behind by a dump truck on a sunny clear day with little traffic.
-The driver had probably been drinking and fled the scene.
-The impact ripped the bumper off the truck, leaving the license plate at the scene.
-Didn't lose consciousness. Didn't hit my head.
-I've got a compression fracture in my spine and lots of fun road rash.
-A week flat on my back in the hospital and several months in a back brace will see me mostly back to normal. (maybe)
-The driver was questioned by police but has not yet been arrested.
-I may get $500 for the bike if I can find receipts for the frame.
-They told me that the only time I cried was when I started talking about my bike.
-I am very lucky
My new bike.
05 January 2008:
22 March 2008:
Thanks to Gene Spicer. The wheel he built for me helped cushion the blow.
The offender:
The path he took to hit me. He bumped against a parked truck (1) and rebounded to hit me. The circle (2) marks the skid mark my rear wheel made when it got hit. I have no idea how fast he was going but there is no evidence of skid marks from the truck.
Me
Last edited by TimArchy; 04-03-08 at 03:23 AM.
Originally Posted by Josh Frank
I will derive power from their cries of despair. My crank a speedy dervish, spinning and spinning through the darkest night that anyone with the audacity to try and suck my wheel will ever see...
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i don't know you (irl), but after an assult like that i'm glad to know you're alive, and can only hope you're not in any pain (or at least have adequate meds to help with it).
what do you think the likelyhood is of the driver being convicted of criminal charges? I don't know anything about the law there, but wish you the best of luck with that and (most importantly) your recovery.
There will be a bikefund, don't worry.
Originally Posted by bonechilling
Road [racing] is one of the only sports where adult men can compete in a non-scholastic setting, so inevitably 8/10 racers are fiercely-competitive nobodies. It's fun as hell, but it's also the foremost refuge of defeated and aging jocks, turned middle-management types.
This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.
My response would have been something along the lines of: "Does your bike have computer controlled suspension? Then shut your piehole, this baby is from the future!"
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Im glad to hear your alive and recovering, that compound fracture wont be to bad as long as you stay slim, I had an accident that involved a very similiar injury but I was a tad bit over weight at the time and it made everything worse! after about a year of the pain not going anywhere I slowly lost weight and the pain all but disappeared so stay safe and stay slim and you should be fine
You see, their morals, their code...it's a bad joke, dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. I'll show you. When the chips are down, these...These "civilized" people...they'll eat each other. See, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve.
Don't know much about the law here. I do know that the guy is still out for now. The owner of the school is helping me out with the law stuff.
There is definitely plenty of pain. It took the hospital a few days to get me drugs to adequately take care of it, but it's much better now. I didn't sleep for the first two days. Now I'm fine unless I decide to something stupid like move.
I got out today and I'm laid up in a hotel for a while. Only difference from the hospital is that the food is better here and there are english channels on the TV. I'm skipping work for another week and then I'm lucky enough to have a two week holiday. I mentioned to the nurse that I was planning on going back to work this week. She looked at me like I was crazy and told me I wouldn't be able to teach for at least a month. This was all before I tried to stand up for the first time. I understand what she meant now.
Not a fan of the "turd world" reference, but getting injured in a place where you're an outsider and don't know the language is scarry as hell. I can imagine it's the same for any immigrants in the US. Though in the end their bill would probably be 10x what mine is.
6 days in the hospital, x-rays, MRI, drugs, ambulance: 55,000 Baht = $1,700 (covered by insurance)
Originally Posted by Josh Frank
I will derive power from their cries of despair. My crank a speedy dervish, spinning and spinning through the darkest night that anyone with the audacity to try and suck my wheel will ever see...
hope you feel better....
whats sad is that its your new bike =[
maybe use break after this incident?
my plan is to put on front break after i get into an accident
but i have not yet get one =] luckily....
Thanks for the sentiment, but brakes don't help so much when you get hit from behind.
Originally Posted by Josh Frank
I will derive power from their cries of despair. My crank a speedy dervish, spinning and spinning through the darkest night that anyone with the audacity to try and suck my wheel will ever see...
He said he's gonna put on a brake after he gets into an accident. ONLY AFTER HE GETS INTO AN ACCIDENT. Jesus christ what is with you and missing points.
Amazing in that this ordeal was documented as it was & that you got to make that call.
TimArchy - I hope you get good, fast. I think you're very lucky in that you never went under carriage and in the area that the fractures were. If that ***h*le was bouncing off of parked cars, I'm sure he didn't immediately notice what he had done. Scary as all hell when I think this can happen ANYWHERE, ANYTIME to ANY of us - and it does.
Godspeed to getting back on top of things again.
Just a sugg. You could take one of your seat stays and drive it deep into this guy's back one day if life doesn't serve him justly by then.
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so stay safe and stay slim and you should be fine 
(on my road of course i got brakes)
