Lesson #1: Cars Always Win
1 Day pre accident…
Road my motocycle down to a smaller town named Kingston to meet up with some friends in the afternoon and to grab dinner. Through the day I noticed the heat was really wearing me out, and I still needed to ride back. Trying to make the more safety cautious decision, I decide to skip dinner and head back early for the night. Already knowing that I had a bicycle training session in the morning.
Night passes and morning comes, I wake up and get out on the roads for my training session. I take a slightly different route and end up on a busier street than expected. Not a problem for an experienced biker like myself, we take the roads and start on our pathway home. Barreling down approaching an intersection, an on-coming vehicles appears in the left hand turn lane. It hesitates and stutters, then on a moment notice darts into it’s turn. Within a split second you think to yourself “This vehicle has to stop on a moments notice, or I am going to be hit.”
By the millisecond I was approaching by the foot, and at the last second I thought to myself “I am defiantly going to get hit and to close my eyes for what was about to happen next.”
The next few seconds pass, I don’t know what happened but my eyes are still shut - I do not feel any real pain at this point and I do not hear anything around me. I start to feel around myself and can certainly tell I’m along on the road, around my bike. I start to hear people around me calling for help, and what seemed like speaking with someone over the phone. After determining I was still outside, opening my eyes was not the best decision as I was met with the visual site of red pools dripping onto the ground.
Being frightful of my current condition, I wanted to see if I had any capacity to move on my own. Luckily thanks to a bystander guiding me to rotate myself over and shift back to the curb I did not feel any immediate pain that would signify a spinal injury. I thought this was an important decision to ensure I did not looked lost, in the middle of the road. While awaiting an ambulance to arrive I did not really have anything to think other than I knew I was going to be fine but did not know how bad the bleeding was. Once taken on a short trip to the hospital to get checked and looked into - I was dispatched about 7 hours afterward.
The lesson learned from this one is cars always win.