here's mine. riding down the main road in my town at 45 mph, a lady coming the opposite direction turns left infront of me from a non turning lane. i go crashing into the side of her minivan with my 98 ZX-9R along with busting out her windshield and then flying through the air and then bouncing down the street. so i get careflighted to the hospital and spend some time there while i was in a coma for 12 days. result: broken left femor, compound fracture in my left arm, broken left hip, broken left ankle. also, removed my left kidney, my spleen and about 1 1/2 feet of small intestine. so, after 30 days in the hospital and $450,000 in medical bills i was off to physical theropy for3 months so i could walk again. so after all was said and done, i have titanium rods, pins, and plates in most of the left side of my body now and a couple less organs. nice trade! but i was wearing a helmet that definatley saved my life, thanks shoei. and jacket and gloves, so i had very little road rash. so about 8 months later i bought a new 02 ZX-12R! nice upgrade i thought. all and all, obviously i was close to dying and now i ride harder than ever before. i just take it to the back roads or the track now. but for the record i do have an 06 cbr1000rr now for all of you wondering about the kawi's.

 

Wow, Jason2tx's accident sounded really bad. Have you fully recovered? I always get nervous when I see someone going to cross the road in front of me. I learned in my MSF coarse left turns are the most common car maneuvers in motorcycle accidents. I usually slow down expecting them to make the move to go in front of me. After giving them the chance to move in front and knowing they won't make the move, from their face or car movements, I pick up on the throttle so I spend the less amount of time in front of them. If I'm driving in a multi-lane road, I will try to use other cars to protect myself. I'll slow down or speed up so if the car is going to cross in front of me they would have to hit the car next to me to get to me.

Tahoe's first accident, just sounds like bad luck. I had a close one similar to your 4 months later, I ended up straightening the bike up (I learned in the MSF not to brake in a turn) and braking hard and stopping in the oncoming lane just before I ended up into another chain linked fence. Luckily there was no oncoming traffic. That was during the fall 06 (within my 6 months of learning too). Not wise on my part.

 

Yea, it was pretty damn bad. I have a ton of huge scars now from all the surgery. But I'm fully recovered now,I just walk with a limp sometimes when my hip or knee hurts. Not really a big deal though. About the wreck,I don't even rememeber what happened. The wreck happened on a Monday night, and I can't remember anything that happen from the Friday afternoon before that. Which happen to be the same day I had put on full muzzy exhaust, factory jet kit, air filter and had it dyno tuned. It then rained from Friday afternoon until Monday afternoon, so I didn't get to ride all weekend. When I wrecked I had only been riding for about 15 minutes. So all the stuff I just did to the bike and the 2 week old Shoei Picotte helmet was all thrashed. It sucked. Oh well...