Hi Folks,
I submitted a thread earlier in which I inquired about the Triumph America.
In that thread I stated that my first and only motorcycle, a 2007 Suzuki Boulevard C50 was rear ended and totaled.
Well, here's a picture of it.
It happened on October 8th, just a couple of weeks ago.
I was coming up on some railroad tracks and had down shifted one gear to go over the tracks...which are quite bumpy.
I was moving at about 25mph when a 20 year old girl driving a Honda Accord smashed into the rear of my motorcycle.
She told the police officer that she was looking at a sign on the side of the road advertising a Halloween haunted house.
My motorcycle was knocked 120 feet from the point of impact.
I was ejected...violently...off of it, and landed, hard, face down on the road. Fortunately, I was wearing an armored riding jacket and a full coverage helmet.
But, even with that protection I still ended up with some large, painful bruises, scrapes, and a grade 2 concussion.
Fortunately, there was no car coming from the opposite direction, or I would have been run over, because I ended up landing in the other lane. I'm fortunate also that I didn't get ejected off of the back of the bike, or to the right, or I would have probably been run over by the girl who rear ended me.
The collision happened in broad daylight, my motorcycle was silver and white, and the armored jacket I was wearing was bright yellow...and still she smashed into me.
I was very fortunate to not be hurt any worse than I was.
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