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The title says it all really.
Me + my daughter Lucie and my young mate Matt on his RS125 were our for a run yesterday and decided to head for the bike shop in Kidderminster.
All going to plan ... nice steady run.
When we got to the big roundabout in Kiddy ... there, tootling round it at 4mph using both lanes was an old fat fellow on a non-road legal mobility scooter ... Matt behind him and a car behind him ... then me.
All into roundabout at 6 to leave at 9
Matt went round the scooter and away he went
Car swerved round weaving scooter and off he went ...
Then us ...
Me and Lucie were both laughing and she (I couldnt see this) thinks she looked over her left shoulder to gave him a wave ... just as I accelerated from 5mph ... and she fell off the back.
I felt her go and in my mirror saw her land on her arse ... planted ... no slip or roll just "plant on arse"
I slammed the brakes on and literally threw myself off the bike before it had even come to a complete stop to run the (measured by police) 10m back to her ... terrified that a car would come round and hit her as she was literally sitting in the middle of the road.
First past was the guy on the scooter who said "that was a nasty tumble" and carried on without stopping.
Within seconds I had 2 x off duty cops, an off duty fire fighter, a nurse and 2 x first aiders ... with various others waving away the traffic.
Lucie was in agony, complaining of pain in coccyx and lower back ...
Multiple calls for ambulance.
Despite the Police HQ being literally 500 yards away it was a full 10 mins before 2 WPCs arrived on foot and 20 mins for the ambulance.
Some blokes picked my bike up and moved it onto the pavement as clutch fluid and fuel were leaking.
The cops suggested I ride it the 400 yards to Police HQ so I could travel in ambulance.
Was it shock that made me run out the cop shop car park and be utterly unsure as to which way to run back?
As it happens the ambulance drove past and I ran after it ...
I went with Lucie in the ambulance to Worcester hospital ... Matt followed and his dad travelled 45 miles for them both to wait in the errrr waiting room for the 5.5 hours we were there.
After lots of tests and 2 x sets of Xrays they concluded that she has a very badly bashed coccyx ,,,, although they were worried that she had also damaged a "triangular bone above that" which starts with s I think? (Shovel will know)
What can I say?
I have a grippy pillion seat cover, proper love handles (seriously ... no jokes) and Lucie has CE leg, hip, elbow and back protectors ... plus lid, plus armoured gloves ... the only part of her body not protected was her arse.
I have never been so scared in all my life
Poor Lucies hobbling about in a lot of pain telling people she had a blonde moment and forgot to hold on ... but I am wracked with guilt and worse than that I have the biggest "what if" list raging in my head.
What if I'd been doing 90mph?
What if a tyre blows?
What if a car pulls out?
What if a car had sped round behind us and hit her as she sat in the road?
I didn't go to bed last night and here I sit at 0240 hrs still not ready for sleep.
Sorry folks ,,, that was a bit of an outpouring but I had to get it all out.
Me + my daughter Lucie and my young mate Matt on his RS125 were our for a run yesterday and decided to head for the bike shop in Kidderminster.
All going to plan ... nice steady run.
When we got to the big roundabout in Kiddy ... there, tootling round it at 4mph using both lanes was an old fat fellow on a non-road legal mobility scooter ... Matt behind him and a car behind him ... then me.
All into roundabout at 6 to leave at 9
Matt went round the scooter and away he went
Car swerved round weaving scooter and off he went ...
Then us ...
Me and Lucie were both laughing and she (I couldnt see this) thinks she looked over her left shoulder to gave him a wave ... just as I accelerated from 5mph ... and she fell off the back.
I felt her go and in my mirror saw her land on her arse ... planted ... no slip or roll just "plant on arse"
I slammed the brakes on and literally threw myself off the bike before it had even come to a complete stop to run the (measured by police) 10m back to her ... terrified that a car would come round and hit her as she was literally sitting in the middle of the road.
First past was the guy on the scooter who said "that was a nasty tumble" and carried on without stopping.
Within seconds I had 2 x off duty cops, an off duty fire fighter, a nurse and 2 x first aiders ... with various others waving away the traffic.
Lucie was in agony, complaining of pain in coccyx and lower back ...
Multiple calls for ambulance.
Despite the Police HQ being literally 500 yards away it was a full 10 mins before 2 WPCs arrived on foot and 20 mins for the ambulance.
Some blokes picked my bike up and moved it onto the pavement as clutch fluid and fuel were leaking.
The cops suggested I ride it the 400 yards to Police HQ so I could travel in ambulance.
Was it shock that made me run out the cop shop car park and be utterly unsure as to which way to run back?
As it happens the ambulance drove past and I ran after it ...
I went with Lucie in the ambulance to Worcester hospital ... Matt followed and his dad travelled 45 miles for them both to wait in the errrr waiting room for the 5.5 hours we were there.
After lots of tests and 2 x sets of Xrays they concluded that she has a very badly bashed coccyx ,,,, although they were worried that she had also damaged a "triangular bone above that" which starts with s I think? (Shovel will know)
What can I say?
I have a grippy pillion seat cover, proper love handles (seriously ... no jokes) and Lucie has CE leg, hip, elbow and back protectors ... plus lid, plus armoured gloves ... the only part of her body not protected was her arse.
I have never been so scared in all my life
Poor Lucies hobbling about in a lot of pain telling people she had a blonde moment and forgot to hold on ... but I am wracked with guilt and worse than that I have the biggest "what if" list raging in my head.
What if I'd been doing 90mph?
What if a tyre blows?
What if a car pulls out?
What if a car had sped round behind us and hit her as she sat in the road?
I didn't go to bed last night and here I sit at 0240 hrs still not ready for sleep.
Sorry folks ,,, that was a bit of an outpouring but I had to get it all out.
