#bike crash

[lilygoat]

Bikeracing

#bike crash #sliding on pavement #video clip #instagram

[zoofitness]

Had my first truly scary bike incident today.

Riding with a friend and her front tire got caught in this crack - out of the corner of my eye I saw heard her yell then saw her flip over the front of the handlebars.

I thought for sure I was going to have to call an ambulance when I stopped and ran back to her.

Somehow, she managed to crash relatively unscathed - no blood, helmet still intact, no obvious broken bones. Her bike wasn’t totally destroyed either, which shocked me.

I did just find out that she does have a radial fracture in the arm she landed on, which means her hopes for her first Ironman 70.3 are now practically zero since it’s in 3 weeks.

A very sobering day. I know it wasn’t my fault and I’m very thankful I was able to get ahold of some tri friends to come pick us up, but I still feel bad since I asked her to ride with me and on a different route.

Biking is scary. Be safe. Wear your helmet ALWAYS.

#triathlon #bike crash #scary shit

[nevzorovgif]

Когда прокатилась в дождик на велеке 😆

#александр невзоров #невзоров #nevzorov #bicycle #bike crash

[berkowitzshelton]

Establishing culpability in bicycle accident cases can affect your chances of ultimately getting the compensation you deserve. Bicycle accidents are rising as more people are riding bikes on the roads. When driving, motorists may be careless, particularly when it comes to bicycles. The wounded may benefit from speaking with a bicycle accident lawyer if this negligence results in harm.

#bicycle accident #bike crash #personal injury #bicycle wreck

[stewardofningishzida]

Two for One Real-Life Scary Stories (9 and 10):  Road Rash

TRIGGER WARNING: Concussion, blood, snakes

I prefer being outside whenever I can get away with it. Though my parents always worried since I had trouble making friends in-person (too shy) and didn’t really have anyone to go with. Hiking or otherwise wandering around the wilderness alone is dangerous and you should always at least tell someone where you’re going. Though it’s best if you actually have someone with you to watch your back. It’s not just nature you have to worry about. It’s people too, and they’re often much more dangerous than the other animals.

So, when I wanted to ride my bike around a lake in a local state park, my parents decided to tag along. I was 9 or 10 at the time. Though I don’t completely remember. Part of the story is from my parents since they saw what happened and remember it more properly.

We were enjoying ourselves while biking around the lake. It was around 10 miles (16 km) all the way around. While on the path, we watched for wildlife and looked at the lovely scenery. At first, there were plenty of people around, but that was at the beginning where things were more accessible. As we progressed further around the lake, there were fewer and fewer people. Plus, the trail got rougher. About halfway around the lake, on the south shore, there was a large hill. We powered up it and started to coast down. This is where the first near-death experience happened.

While coasting down, I got excited because it was getting so fast. So, I let gravity do its thing and it went faster and faster and faster! I was way ahead of my parents and having fun…Until I noticed the path ending in a very sharp turn with a fence placed to block riders from falling into the lake. I hit the brakes, but the bike was going too fast for them to work properly and the wheels slid on the loose gravel. This is where I blank out and don’t remember. So, this is what my parents saw:

My bike skidded and I went flying headfirst over the handlebars. Thank goodness I was wearing a helmet. That was probably the one thing that spared me from a skull fracture out in the middle of nowhere. My head hit one of the fence posts at full speed with a *crack* from the helmet and I bounced right off of the post, sliding in the dirt for a few feet or so. Then, I was very still and didn’t get back up for a while. Probably only a few seconds, but it was long enough for my parents to consider calling an ambulance. This is when my memory comes back and I can recall the rest:

I got up feeling dizzy and with a splitting headache. I looked at my arm and it was raw and bloody. My leg hurt a lot too, but I couldn’t seem to roll my pants up properly. So, I looked around and saw a water fountain. I stumbled over and started washing the dirt off of my injuries while my parents ran over to get a better look at me. It hurt and I didn’t appreciate being poked and prodded. Stubborn even back then. Still stubborn now. Though I let medical staff look me over when I need them to without much fuss. Regardless, I didn’t want to get back on the bike because I didn’t feel very steady anymore. That and I was scared of getting hurt even worse. So, we rested for a few minutes while Dad checked the trail ahead to see how much rougher it was.

He came back about 20 minutes later and warned us that the pavement ended ahead and there were a ton of rocks. We were already halfway around. So, we figured we should just finish the trail to get to the car and see if I needed urgent care or not. (As an aside: My parents don’t like doctors much. They sent me when they thought I needed it, but would otherwise insist on treating things themselves. Hence, why I’ve ended up forcing them to get medical attention before.) We went up the next hill and only moments later, there was a rattling noise. Second near-death experience coming.

A startled western diamondback rattlesnake coiled itself up and stared at us from underneath a bush right next to the trail. We were well within striking distance and still miles from the car. So, we carefully put our bikes between us and the snake before passing by. We had to hurry up because it was getting later in the afternoon. Miles later, we reached the dam on the lake’s western shore. I reluctantly got back on my bike so we could ride over it to get back to the car sooner. Another mile or so later, we finally got to the car. I hurt all over, but wasn’t dizzy anymore. So, they deemed a trip to urgent care unnecessary. We went home and I got patched up. Another eventful day over.

#real life #scary stories #near death experience #bike crash #rattlesnake

[charlottecaraccidentlawyer]

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#bike crash #attorney #charlotte nc

[memes-from-the-past]

#old memes #ancient internet #bike crash

[straylight09]

I've Fallen...

On my ship, the ‘Rocinante’

Wheeling through the galaxies...

Spinning, whirling,

Still descending

Like a spiral sea,

Unending

-Cygnus X-1: Book One: The Voyage.  From the album ‘A Farewell to Kings’ by Rush.   

Early Monday morning, August 15th, while riding my bike in Manhattan Beach, near Ardmore and 19th, I crashed.  I have no memory of the crash, but I was wearing my Kask helmet, which may have saved my life, and the impact triggered the fall alert on my Apple Watch, which called 911. That also may have saved my life.

My face took the brunt of the impact, fractured eye socket, broken nose and worst of all, my soft pallet was shattered and hung down into my mouth.  The rest of me seemed to have escaped injury.  No other broken bones.  While sleepy, when I awoke I felt alert and aware of my surroundings. 

On Tuesday 8/16, I had extensive facial surgery and while I will have a long recovery, I’m not in any danger.  The doctors were very clear that I was on a No Chewing diet.  I was not to attempt to chew anything.  This conversation took place about 20 minutes after the nurse brought me a serving me rice, chicken and bread, (none of which I actually ate.)  With that they released me from the hospital on Wednesday afternoon 8/17.

From Thursday to Monday the numbness and swelling eased a bit. Yogurt, applesauce, and soup became my only food choices.  I slept a lot.  I was able to determine that other than my face, there’s really not a scratch anywhere else on me.  My knees, elbows, hands, and legs are amazingly unblemished.  The rubber from my bike bib, the shorts being left on me for something like 30+ hours, did cut into my leg, but that’s it.  In my mind this borders on the possibility of a supernatural intervention wherein my face was allowed to impact what ever surface it did impact, but the rest of my body was gently lain upon the road like King Arthur being set upon fine linens as he’s ushered off to Avalon.  I’ve yet to see my bike, so who knows what protected me.  

Monday August 22nd, my first appointment back to the hospital, and possibly my last.  They pulled the packing from my nose, which is an experience that I truly believe cannot be expressed in words.  (Quaid removing that tracking ball in the original version of Total Recall comes closest.)  They removed the screws that would have been used to wire my mouth shut should the surgery have not gone well, and finally they removed the sutures under my nose and around my eye. I’m allowed to shower, but not swim. (I didn’t ask for details, but I suspect my skull, until fully healed, may not be airtight.) 

And with that I was released to my primary care Physician for follow up. 

Overall I do feel lucky to be alive, the amount of blood on my jersey and bib was disconcerting, but I still have no memory of what actually occurred.  That mystery remains, and because a few have asked, no there were not any cameras, Ring or otherwise, pointing my direction. 

What I do know is that my cadence (peddling) had stopped about 8 seconds before the impact. I was coasting along at about 9 MPH. 

5:40:30AM - I came to a sudden stop based on my cycling GPS info. 

5:42am 911 was called from my Apple Watch.  At some point after the paramedics arrived.  This was about the same time as I became aware of my surroundings.  This means that I could have been unconscious for as long as 10 minutes. 

You have to picture one of those stylized scenes in a movie, where the camera is tracking left, low to the ground, it’s dark and quiet.  As the camera moves, in the background there’s the staccato flashing of my G Keni Smart tail light, three quick beats, a pause and another 3 quick flashes of lurid red.  The green Kask helmet comes into view, a limp 1/2 gloved hand, open to the elements.  The amber silhouette of a wheel appears on the background wall, the light from my Brightside light. Somewhere in the background a distant siren pushes into the quiet.

At any rate the paramedic arrive to find me sitting up with my thumbs in my mouth, trying to push the fractured pieces of the roof of my mouth back into place.  They get me stabilized for transport and ask if they should call anyone. I hand them my phone after pulling up Maria’s number. 

5:59am.  The call to Maria per my Cell Phone records 

6:07am, per my GPS, I was apparently in the ambulance and moving 

From the crash to the Paramedics calling Maria is roughly 19 minutes.  That’s 19 minutes from collision to medically stable all initiated by my Apple Watch.  Though my most profound Kudos go to the Manhattan Beach Fire and Rescue who did get to me quickly. 

Therefore, I am, as they way, “Out of the woods.”   There will be follow up facial and dental work.  I’m told it will take between 6 to 8 weeks for my facial bones to completely heal. Maria hinted (in no uncertain terms) that should I attempt to ride a bike or play hockey before the end of that period she will either leave me or kill me herself.  (Have you seen the videos of her axe throwing?).   There’s a lot of residual swelling, numbness and bruising.  Speaking is a challenge unto itself and just being awake seems exhausting. The “No Chew” diet will continue through the eight weeks of healing and while that seems fine right now, I’m sure I’ll be scouring the internet for best practices on blending a pizza before the end of September.  

Maria, and the girls, are my heroes. There is no amount of thanks and apologies I could ever give them to make up for putting them through this.  I will, of course, try anyway.   My friends and family reached out, mostly via Facebook with good wishes and positive energy.  That has helped keep my spirits up and pushed away those feelings that the universe was picking on me.  Scott has communicated with my work team and I’ve been given some leeway to return to work when I feel able.  

My bike, the 2019 Cannondale Synapse named “Rocinante” was apparently retained by the Manhattan Beach PD, again my thanks to the system and the people.  I should get that back from them soon. Given the limited scope of my injuries, I suspect Rocinante will yield no further insights as to what happened.  I expect the bike to be as mostly untouched as I am, which applying the principle of Occam’s Razor, suggests I simply ran into something.  My Doctors at the hospital said the Paramedics told them I’d clipped a parked car in the dark and gone over my handlebars.  How that results in nothing else being scratched in the slightest, I have not clue, but it does suggest that I was simply caught not paying attention.  Coasting along for 8 or 10 seconds at 9 mph, my head down looking at my phone, I clipped a car in the dark and landed face first on to a very solid surface.  

So to anyone who rides a bike.  Wear a helmet.  It took just 9 miles an hour and a few moments of inattention to nearly kill me.  While I can tell the story, I have to wonder how many couldn’t write how a helmet would have made a difference had they been wearing one. Then there's the Apple Watch, who called 911 in my stead and that too may have saved my life.

I'll be back on my bike eventually...

#bike crash #manhattan beach #apple watch

[mojo-yous]

The embarrassment of falling over your bikes handlebars is like no other. Especially in public. Was I going 1km an hour? Yes. Did it still freaking hurt? Yes! Was I in a public area with a decent group of people in the area when this happened? Unfortunately, yes. What am I supposed to do? I literally hobbled my bike to the crosswalk and rode off and I swear everyone was staring at me but that might have been my social anxiety.

#bike crash #txt #txt post #how do i tag #public embarrassment #I am the public embarrassment /hj #like straight over the handlebars too #not even to the side of the bike #me and that bike have a love hate relationship

[skv11000]

Gravel in my POC

#cycling #cycling life #bike crash #helmet

[mathsbian]

Oh lol you’ve got me wrong (and this is why I put it on anon not a reblog cos I knew it was going to be read as “helmets useless”) I wasn’t saying that attitudes right I was just putting out why a lot of people are resistant on a mental level even when it doesn’t make sense from a purely logical one . And I responded to you cos I follow you so that’s how I saw the post it’s not a fight it’s y’know commentary , but to respond to your first point sure it will kill you, but so will wearing a helmet , styrofoam doesn’t do shit when you skull smashes steel at high speed , and that’s the entire explanation “it’s easy to discount helmets when a helmet won’t protect you against the biggest danger even if it will help against other things“

Ok well if you’d made that more clear you could have reblogged it and not gotten misinterpreted. I read the first ask as kind of accusatory because this has been an ongoing argument happening on vaspider’s blog. We’re mutuals so I’ve been seeing firsthand all the aggressive asks he’s been getting for just stating that his life was saved in an accident, one most would think wouldn’t be dangerous, only because he was wearing a helmet at the time. Him saying that sparked a lot of people coming to his blog to argue with him about it so my instinct on getting a long ask seeming to be arguing with the points in the post and not clearly agreeing with it was to think it bled over here.

Also the helmets aren’t styrofoam and literally can be the thing that keeps you alive if you are hit by a car, too. They’re not only life-saving in accidents without cars. I’ve seen dozens of stories from bike-reddit of people complaining about asshole car drivers who tried to run them off the road and caused them to wreck at high speed, or intentionally hit them, and they were still alive thanks to their helmets, a bystander calling 911, paramedic response, and medical care at a hospital. People can think whatever they want I guess but it’s still a factually flawed argument to try and make against wearing helmets. They’re not useless against a car, they’re not useless in any situation where you’re balancing yourself above the ground without a mat.

#bike crash #bike helmets #death tw

[raapija]

Yet another genre of Fernando pics

#how many different cycling outfits does one man need? all of them. #fernando alonso #always wear a helmet guys and don't crash your bike and break half your face 💚

[nevzorovgif]

Мои планы отправить ребёнка в сад на этой неделе и его сопли.

#александр невзоров #невзоров #nevzorov #bike crash

[lewmagoo]

i can’t stop making these now

#the bike one looks like he and snoopy are about to crash #noooo #the snoopy chronicles #lewis pullman

[14dayswithyou]

IF NOBODY ELSE WILL DO IT THEN I WILL)

*skedaddles up to [REDACTED] and whispers in their ear*

"I crashed your sports bike in a waffle house parking lot on accident and ran over 3 pedestrians on the way there-"

“Please tell me it was Teo, Elanor, and Violet that you ran over on accident.” Without missing a beat, [REDACTED] leans into your side and brings you close with one hand. “…No? It's 'kay."

Before you know it, he's pulling out his fancy keycard with a second pair of keys on them and a smirk on his face. "…I got a Corvette parked ‘round the back. You up for... "bowling" with waffles after?”

#I still think it's funny how Ren has no sense of awareness when it comes to expensive items #Like 'Oh you crashed his expensive bike and sent 3 people to the ER?? Don't worry; he's got another fancy car with your name on it' hsgsj #But if this was a serious situation (rather than a silly one); [REDACTED] would be more critical of your health n making sure you're ok!! #I just think this response would be funnier lmao #💌 — answered. #💖 — about ren. #💖 — 14 days with queue.

[latapadraws]

loved that hot pink bike for all 2 seconds that it was there in dead apple

#chuuya nakahara #nakahara chūya #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #bsd anime #bsd art #bsd #bsd chuuya #chuuya fanart #bungo stray dogs fanart #his bike is so cool #whyd you have to just crash it instantly in dead apple bro #cmon chuuya wheres the hot pink bike #my art #myart