My son and I rode in the Freedom Run held on Sunday, May 31st (Hackensack, NJ to Ground Zero NYC, and then to Liberty State Park). He broke off from our group a little early to head home, while my wife and I stayed with our group of riders. On our way home we passed what appeared to be my son's bike on the back of a flat bed wrecker (we only got a quick glance at it). My cell phone was ringing so we pulled off the road to check who was calling. We were relieved to see it was our daughter, only to find that she was calling to say that our son had been hit by a car, and was heading by ambulance to the hospital. She had no other info. We raced home picked up the car and headed to the hospital expecting the worse. When we arrived we were blessed to find that he was almost unscathed (sprained right foot, and hair line fracture of right elbow). We later found out that he had been hit by a woman who ran a stoplight. (no license, no registration, no current insurance) police ticketed her for all including careless driving. I finally got to see the bike (1995 FXSTS) yesterday - bike was wreck. Still amazed he walked away from it.
P.S. After he was hit and downed, he could not get up since his leg was pinned under the bike. Nearly 20 cars did nothing more than ride around him.
Metalgrind
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Topic: Hit by Unlicensed Driver (Read 2285 times)