Wednesday night I went down about 4 miles into my 13 mile commute. It was on a nice street that I've ridden before, and I'm pretty sure what happened was I was moving my left hand, hit a bump, and lost it while going around 18mph. It's unreal how quickly these things happen. Afterwards I rode home (slowly), took a shower, and drove to the ER for x-rays. No breaks, but I've a sore left hip, a sprained left shoulder, with the worst being sore ribs. The doc said the ribs could be broken but from what he saw on the x-rays he couldn't say if they were. Three people drove around me while I was still on the street until a lady stopped to check on me. A cop came by shortly and asked if I wanted an ambulance etc. With his car-centric mentality he asked "where's your car" to which I answered to his slight amazement "at home in the driveway". From what I could tell he fit the donut eating cop stereotype - the guy was huge! While I worked yesterday, today I'm off so I'm taking it easy and started taking Vicoden last night. People have said since that I should stop riding to work to which I reply "did you stop driving your car after you had an accident?"