Hello all,

I have been a motorcyclist for almost 4 years but following a bad accident i was forced to get a car, so passed my test and got myself a 2002 Skoda Fabia 1.4. Only the ickle 8v version but perfect for me as my first car. Only owned it since 15th Jan and done around 250-300 miles so far.

Don't know what else to say to be honest, my name is pretty obvious from my username. Live in Dewsbury, just south of Leeds.

Glad it sounds like you're ok after the accident. What were you riding, and how did it happen?

Welcome along to Brisky anyway

:wavey:

Thanks for the welcome

Was riding my Suzuki bandit 400 (can't beat a ickle pocket rocket revving at 16k ) and i low sided (slid off on a corner to none bikers) but slid into the path of a car coming the other way. I don't remember anything due to all the drugs they were giving me.

Suffered the following injuries -

Broken femur

Broken tib + fib

Fractured inferior pubic ramus (the bit of pelvis that you can feel in your groin)

Crushed T8 vertibrae

Fractured T7 and T11 vertibrae

4 broken ribs

Punctured left lung

Ruptured my spleen

Ruptured my liver.

Was in hopsital 13 weeks in total (happened on 20th june last year) and it has been 7 month yesterday since it happened. Have to go for a medical next week then i can finally get back to work (i work as a mechanical manufacturing engineer, basically i use CNC lathes, milling machines and grinders).

This is going to sound really daft but the thing that annoyed me most about the accident is that i had about 15 driving lessons and had my test booked for the thursday after i had the accident. So it annoyed me that i had (well, my old man) had to cancel it:( Had about 10-15 lessons before christmas (didn't need that many, just waiting for a test date) and failed my first test on the 17th Dec from screwing up the gears and almost being crashed into. Passed second time on 10th january with 3 minors, bought my car the same day and picked it up the following thursday

Thanks again for the welcome.

Matt

welcome mate u aint the only newbie im gettin myself a vrs following a test drive today

no more bikes for you then ey ?

hope eeverythings ok thou

Edited 21 January, 200917 yr by scooter188

Welcome and glad you're on the mend

welcome to briskoda

Davy

hello and welcome,

that was some list of injuries,makes my cracked lid,mild concussion,bruised shoulder,leg and arm

seem like nothing.

glad to see your on the mend:)

welcome

hello and welcome,

that was some list of injuries,makes my cracked lid,mild concussion,bruised shoulder,leg and arm

seem like nothing.

glad to see your on the mend:)

Thanks again for the welcome guys.

Some of them are pretty nasty injuries and will come back to haunt me when i'm a little old man. But the way i saw it, and the way i got through my 13 weeks in hospital was that i thought they weren't to bad. Considering the person on the bed next to me in ICU died 2 days before i came out of ICU onto the orthapaedic ward. Really makes you think when they say only 40% of people come out of ICU alive :(

Any injuries are bad, whether it is a broken back or a fractured wrist...wouldn't wish them on anyone. Although my hospital stay did have some advantages

Thanks again.

Matt

Hello and welcome. I assume whoever was in the car escaped unhurt?

Yeah basically 100% unhurt. However him and his daughter (same age as me) are both trying to claim for whiplash and trauma. Now i can understand claiming for trauma if you were hit from behind by a 1.5 tonne car, but not from the front by a 180kg bike

Technically it was my fault aswell so i can't claim a penny :(

Holy cow - that list of injuries in nearly enough to make me give up the bike...

...nearly!

Glad you're on the right path though. Keep on getting better.

Matt, if I was you I'd have chosen 'be lucky' for my username:eek:

Soapywalrus - Some would say i'm a total fruit cake for it, but i actually plan on getting another bike in the future Not sure when, was planning on this spring but i may leave it another year for my back to heal more and to get more movement back in my left leg (i have limited movement due to being immobile for quite a long time).

Paramaniac - The consultant that dealt with me in A+E came to see me after about 6 weeks of being in hospital and said that he was suprised i survived the night, nevermind kept my leg. My consultant now is the one that did all the orthopaedic surgery and he said he had never seen a leg so badly damage, that still looks like a leg once its been repaired. They were going to amputate it due to the amount of surgical damage (not so much the bones, but the amount of flesh i had lost and i was loosing large amounts of blood from it). But fortunatley they decided they may aswell try and repair it anyway.

Unless you are a squimish bunch, i could post pictures of my scars and xrays (yep, i am sad enough to pay £20 for copies of my xrays)

Thanks

Matt