Most likely, your bike didn't wash out. Often, when you go off the road, there's a small lip back up to the pavement. Bikes don't handle that lip very well and the all-too-common result is falling into the road. I did that myself on Labor Day and broke my hip. Now I'm suffering the same anxiety that you're having.

The solution is simple: "If you go off, stay off." Bring your bike to a stop, lift or roll it back onto the road, and restart. Nobody wants to do that because it seems a little wimpy but think of all the time you would have saved if you did it that way.