Glad you're ok with just bumps and bruises.
A good friend of mine bike commutes 5 days a week got bumped off the
front of an Expedition today. He was on his mountain bike, which is
built like a tank and still ride-able. He says it's only bumps and
bruises the injuries which are less than he sustained in Cyclocross
races last fall.
Luther KB5QHU Forest Park, IL
'98 ML320 "Max" (164,xxx mi)
On 5/1/2013 5:28 PM, clay wrote:
Just back for totalling the E300
I took a package to the local post office and was headed home. Not more than a
block past the post office I enter an uncontrolled intersection and BOOM, some
dame plows into my left front wheel, spins me 90 degrees. He suzuki is non op,
and my wheel is riding wrong and I am leaking fluids from the radiator.
I jump out, grab my paperwork and call 911, then get on the horn to USAA while
she, you knew it had to be a dame, comes out of her daze and wants to know why
I hit her? Told her it was her failure to yield. Got the cops there, USAA
lined up, AAA for a tow, and call my sister to tell her I would not be able to
get her on Friday when she flies in for the services, told Mom I would need her
to do that task, I would ride with, and called SWMBA. SWMBA is out of town and
so I left a message. Then I called #1 boy to let him know he has the only
working vehicle in the house now.
Everybody on the phone wanted to know if anybody was hurt. My response was, "not
yet" because how can you tell right off? Now I am having big pain in the shoulder,
numb arm and hands and neck is throbbing. I called my GP from the accident to schedule a
look over soonest, even before the pain. Until then, I am taking naproxin.
Tow driver pulled a scam on me. I just wanted the car to go home and I would
deal with it later. He convinced me that it should go to his yard, and
insurance would pay for it all because AAA does not cover accident towing. IT
would be out of pocket right then for it to go to my place. So I went with his
story. USAA says that my coverage will not do that and it should have been at
home where they could look at it on their time schedule.
Either way, another benz saved another life and gave itself in sacrifice.
clay
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