Well............... This past Thursday afternoon I left from a gas station after just filling up. Headed west on a 4 lane highway with no median. I came out and took the inside lane as I was approaching an intersection and the right lane is a turn/staright lane. I notice the cross guard is flashing and showing 14 seconds left before yellow so I have plenty of green and go ahead and accelerate and shift on up. Right as I get into the intersection the car just ahead by a half car lenght and to the right of me in the outside lane cuts into my lane to avoid hitting a truck that failed to yiels the right on red and cut into her barely tapping her rear passenger side door. She was there in over half of my lane. I had no choice but to hit the left front of her car as my only other option was to hit the cars waiting to turn left (facing me heading the opposite direction).
The right front leg faring and crash bar hit first (and slightly into my right leg), the the passenger floorboard was the next to go and it flew into the side cover and then the lock side of the touring pak. Then the saddlebag guard and the saddle bag hit her front tire pushing it up towards the tour pak. Sp pretty much the whole right side will need to be replaced along with the gas tank (the leg faring pushed up into that as well). The lady driving the truck that caused the whole mess ended up leaving the scene and was never caught. No citations were issued although the girl that veered into my lane was at fault for my damage according to my insurance company. They said to take my bike wherever I wanted and get the process started. I took it to my local dealer. My insuramce company (Markel Bike-Line) called the next day and gave me a claim number and let me know they will pay for the damages less my deductable ($500) and then submit to her company for reimbursement for their cost and my deductable.
I went to the Express Care place and got an xray of my leg to be on the safe side. Although I hated the wait I was glad I went as the little bone in my leg (tibia??) is broken in two places. I will get some kinf of air boot Monday for it. It hurts some but I can walk on it fine.
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