Thread: Should have driven My Disco! HighSpeed motorbike crash

Not a sympathy post- Loving life

I am:
1-very very very lucky to be alive-
2-very very very lucky to be likely to have a full recovery

Had to met my son to pay the dentist. Jumped on my bike. Its racing machine Honda CBR 600 1999 - I ride it fast in first gear then back off as I like my license

At front left lane of three lanes at a red light. I could see several km of clear roads with not a single car. Green Light. about 2 seconds late I was doing 80kph about 100m in front of all the cars behind me. A car stuck more than his nose out into the left lane. The driver then saw me and look horrified. I swerved very hard to the middle lane. The very old driver of the car moved into the middle lane His shocked expresion was still looking at me and his hands had not turned his steering wheel and were as frozen as the shock on his face. I was braking and still moving hard right .......... His car stopped still in the right lane across the entire lane. He had not tried to travel down any of the three lanes which did catch me

Back of his car, bonnet or verg then trees to kill me? I hit the bonnet

Came to 20m down the road a very broken man. I could see the old man standing by his car still in the same possition- He is ok.

The damage:
Broken Right leg
Smashed pelvis and hip
Punctured lung
Broken right arm at the sholder
Broken ribs
Spine T1 and T2
A few minor facial fractures
A few litres of blood lost

Royal Melb operations
Friday 5/7 CT giuded angiogram sealing all bleeding (I was wake Very cooL)
Saturday 6 /7 Rod joined broken right leg
Tuesday 9/7 Pelvis, hip and shoulder fixed

Pain prior to Tuesday Operation the pain was close to unbearable. I was rolled over by amazing caring nurses every 4 hours with the same unbelievable pain every time. Heavy duty drugs via a magic button I could push every five minutes only masked the agony.

12 hours late I was aware they were rolling me and expecting the PAIN. not a bit hit. 4 hours late ditto

I am now in Rehab. No pain at all, No drugs at all. Add I can weight bare on my repaired right leg. Every day I do new things I took entirely fir granted before the crash. Each one is kicking a goal.

Lucky I am not dead, lucky I did not add the brain to the list. Spine is good, face is great- Not allowed to blow my nose for another week Lung puncture resolved it self. Might miss the Melbourne Marathon this year. Just this once. Anyone else think Incisor might need to change me from ChatterBox to Very Very Lucky?

Good luck with the recovery.

Can I ask what you were wearing? Did it work?