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That’s where I’m writing this from. I went to the Mid Ohio Vintage Bike days and hit a deer on rt. 76 Sunday morning about 9:30 A.M. I have 4 broken ribs, my shoulder bone and collar bone are broken and I have a pneumothorax.
https://health.google.com/health/ref/Collapsed+lung
I spent 5 days in ICU and now I’m in the regular side of the hospital. They just pulled my chest tube… Man that hurt…
I was east bound doing about 70, the deer came from the west bound woods across traffic, across the median barrier into my lanes and almost the across the road
Someone in a car in front of me almost hit him (yes, him, a buck that would have looked good on anyone’s wall)
I had worked on the bike in preparation for the trip to Kentucky so I had new brake shoes and the calipers and mcs were cleaned. I was braking and down shifting when he decided to turn around and go back the way he came from. I figured at this point I’m going to get hurt and my three potential points of impact were guard rail, woods and deer. If he was the cause of this he was going to feel the pain too so I t-boned him.
I hit him and went down on my left side and rode the bike until it started to flip. I rolled and when I tried to get up, knew my collar bone was broken so I grabbed my left arm with my right and scampered off the road.
The guy I was riding with almost ran me over, the semi behind him almost ran me over but I made it off the road.
The medic squad took me to Akron City Hospital, there was a closer hospital but ACH is a level 1 trauma center. They told me if I didn’t have the helmet I would have been dead on the road…
I’ll post pictures later. I’m feeling pretty good (Percocet baby) and feeling VERY lucky. I have another bike, but the bastages ran over my wayfarers….
Take care ride safe
https://health.google.com/health/ref/Collapsed+lung
I spent 5 days in ICU and now I’m in the regular side of the hospital. They just pulled my chest tube… Man that hurt…
I was east bound doing about 70, the deer came from the west bound woods across traffic, across the median barrier into my lanes and almost the across the road
Someone in a car in front of me almost hit him (yes, him, a buck that would have looked good on anyone’s wall)
I had worked on the bike in preparation for the trip to Kentucky so I had new brake shoes and the calipers and mcs were cleaned. I was braking and down shifting when he decided to turn around and go back the way he came from. I figured at this point I’m going to get hurt and my three potential points of impact were guard rail, woods and deer. If he was the cause of this he was going to feel the pain too so I t-boned him.
I hit him and went down on my left side and rode the bike until it started to flip. I rolled and when I tried to get up, knew my collar bone was broken so I grabbed my left arm with my right and scampered off the road.
The guy I was riding with almost ran me over, the semi behind him almost ran me over but I made it off the road.
The medic squad took me to Akron City Hospital, there was a closer hospital but ACH is a level 1 trauma center. They told me if I didn’t have the helmet I would have been dead on the road…
I’ll post pictures later. I’m feeling pretty good (Percocet baby) and feeling VERY lucky. I have another bike, but the bastages ran over my wayfarers….
Take care ride safe
1980 Midnight Special Its so fast it blew the gold right off
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