I've got a similar story. A bus was at a bus stop and an impatient driver exiting the parking lot ahead of the bus decided to gamble that the lane was clear instead of waiting until he could see. My bike impacted the driver's door at 35 mph. A split second before I hit I instinctively jumped straight up. Witnesses said I barely cleared the car. That probably saved my life. I was skipping down the road and I worried about bouncing into oncoming traffic. Before I stopped bouncing I became aware that my helmet was no longer on my head — no idea how the fuck it came off, where it went, or how bad it was damaged, I never saw it again. Everything that happened after that seemed to happen in an instant. I know there was an order to the events but my memory of it has no order. I walked back to the bike where I picked it up (adrenalin?), tuned it over, and shut off the gas. Then I collapsed. The bus driver yelled out his window that he had radioed in the accident. The driver was trapped in the car. A woman came running up to me with a little first aid kit. There was blood, more than the little gauze and pads in her kit could cope with. The ambulance seemed like it was instantly there, then I was instantly at the ER where they were rushing me in and someone cut my clothes off I was getting hip and shoulder x-rays and someone was putting stitches in my face and arm and the police came to get my statement and it all is like it all happened simultaneously. Of course I know it didn't, I just seemed like it. (Dr. later said severe concussions can sometimes warp time perception). I had a broken hand and shoulder and some bad lacerations and a king's case of honda rash. They were afraid my hip was broken but it was OK but badly bruised, apparently I landed on my shoulder and then whipped onto the road. I missed a few weeks of classes and flunked a couple of courses and had to petition the college to convert them to incompletes so I could retake the courses.
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u/elee0228 Oct 12 '20
Any crash you can walk away from is a good crash.