on my way to work monday at about 6:15 am I was heading south and another driver (who was heading north) executes a left turn across my lane. This causes me to lock up my brakes and this causes me to drop and slide. Luckily I didn't contact anyting besides the road. the bike slid along on its left side while I slid and rolled on both sides.
The driver of the other vehicle saw what he had done and chose to flee the scene.
I was on my feet asap so I could avoid being hit by another fine citizen of middletown OH. I had a lot of pain in my ribs and shoulder blade on my left side also had road rash on my hands knees and elbows although my ff helmet and armored jacket saved me from the worst of it.
I was transported to The Atrium hospital in middletown where I was diagnosed with 6 broken ribs. I spent the night, coming home yesterday.
I call last night to discover the tow bill is in excess of 300.00 to tow it less than a half mile and store it 2 nights. rather than pay even more storage a friend and I go bail it out this morning and with a bit of cpr we get it started and my friend rides it home, beause luckily the damage is mostly cosmetic. I am waiting to hear from geico's claim adjuster to see what will happed.
While I have had other motorcycle accidents this is the first to have me admitted to the hospital(the same day anyway).
My jacket and helmet saved me from very serious injury and if my bike had abs maybe the spill could have been avoided altogether (maybe). Just very thankful that everything still works and I will be fine.