sarals

Ouch ! Not a lot of fun. Glad to hear you're able to get back on the bike again and I hope that everything will turn out for you. I didn't need medical attention so I consider myself lucky. Write down everything you can recall about the incident. Anytime there are liability issues it's critical to record the events as soon as possible and as accurately as possible.

I did something similar a couple of months ago when I hit a patch of sand on the pavement. The bike landed on the grass, I landed on the pavement on my side. The bike was fine and wound up covered in mud with a huge case of road rash on my left knee and arm. The good thing was that I had running tights on over my bike shorts so I wound up with bruises, abrasions but my jacket got shredded.

By the time I got home both the bike and I were filthy. I looked like I'd been in a cyclocross race in the muck. I peeled off my running tights and hosed the clothes and the bike down. When I walked into the house one of my boys looked at me and said "Hey, you're bleeding."

My wife took one look at me and said "Aren't you overdoing it ?"
"I've done worse"
"That was 40 years ago"
"So ?"

I looked like something from a horror film for a couple of weeks.

A plug for clipless pedals:

I know that if I was on the hybrid, the bike would have wound up on top of me and depending on the side I crashed on I would have wound up with a variety of cuts. The CF road bike literally flew out from underneath me and did a soft landing on the grass. I have clipless on both bikes and I know that I can always rely on them to release my feet like a ski binding. If I were using toe clips I know for sure that it could have been much worse.