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Old 11-15-17 | 10:02 AM
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Was going down the road and a guy in the right turn lane ran a stop light making a right turn in front of me. He was on the blind side of a moving truck in the straight lane so I didn't see or have time to react. I flew over his hood and landed in front of his car. Instead of breaking, he decided he was going to try to flee the scene and kept on the gas. My shoulder was pinned under his bumper and he pushed me another 50 feet down the road. If I had landed on my back or stomach, the bumper would not have caught my shoulder and his passenger side wheel would have ran over my chest cavity likely killing me so I got 'lucky' there.

Finally he decides to try and turn away from me. He then drove off the road and ran through a double layer brick wall about 4 feet tall and high centered on the bricks. This was a decorative brick wall for an apartment complex. I was left in the road: was able to stand up and walk over to grass and collapsed.

Other than my whole right side having road rash from being pushed down the road, I suffered a brachial plexus injury to my shoulder, An injury common during child births, and to this day 13 years later, my left thumb still tingles like it has fallen asleep. My sunglasses shattered and glass inbedded into my face an inch from my right eye. Stitches were required and later plastic surgery to help my eye not be so wide open from the stitches pulling my lower eye lid open too far. My eye still involuntary tears non stop because my eye is open further than the other eye. I still have a scar there. Also I have been pulling glass shards out of my face over the years here and there. The last shard I pulled out was last year so it spent 12 years in my face before it worked its way out. Somehow I didn't beak any bones though.

Bike was trashed.
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