Yikes! Glad to hear that you escaped relatively intact. Patrick M. gives great, salient advice.
You will probably discover more aches and pains (document!) as your body relaxes over the next few days. Definitely get ahold of your auto insurance co if you have any. One of the reasons I'll probably stick with mine is all the phenomenal work they did to settle my bike/door interaction a few years back. "Replacement Value" is an important concept to get across to the other insurance co (as well as your own, but that is typically not as much of an issue. The current price to replace the damaged items. Clothing, helmet, gloves, packs, etc. And of course the bike. They should cover all ER/doc stuff. (I was ambulance transported for mine, which isn't cheap). If your insurance co is doing their job, they'll pay all that stuff and get reimbursed from the other driver's co. Any financial settlement (real costs plus loss of work, pain/suffering, etc.) is probably negotiated by the other co with you. They are probably hoping you say "yes" to the first offer, generally speaking, which means they will typically come in low. Once you sign off, it's done. hope that helps. May the road to recovery be smooth! all the best, - Jim / cyclofiend.com On Saturday, September 6, 2014 8:01:26 PM UTC-7, Christopher Chen wrote: > > My Hilsen is out of commission for a little while. > > Heading on NW Broadway towards the bridge, at Flanders, when a silver VW > Golf making a left turn hits me. I go up and over and make a nice dent on > the windshield. Roll back down when the car stops and land on my feet (like > a cat!) and walk away, a bit dazed. > > Cops show up, we have a party with the firefighters, ambulance comes and > leaves. Witness gives his story, all the data gets swapped. > > Front rack is bent, front fork is askew, wheel is tacoed, but everything > is fixable. > > Police officer gives me a ride back to my apartment (hey it turns out cops > carry bikes on their cars all the time, by fitting the wheels between the > grill and the big external bumper on the front). > > X-rays turn out okay, no fractures. Everyone at the hospital was great. It > was about 8 hours ago and I'm just coming down from the endorphins. I got a > malt milkshake (horchata cookie!) to celebrate. > > Oh yeah, and my helmet is all cracked up. I'll be fine though. > > Anyway, keep an eye out there... > > Cheers > > cc > > still picking pieces of windshield glass out of his hair > > -- > "I want the kind of six pack you can't drink." -- Micah > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
