Brick, yep as soon as I saw Seth's name badge it rang a bell--knobbies prez. Nice guy. For those who aren't familiar, Knobbies is a motorcyle club based in Morganton that brick is a member of, and Seth Purdy is an EMT called to the accident scene, who also happens to be president of the Knobbies. Small world. It was kind of surreal--Seth was talking up the Knobbies upcoming motorcycle rally in Morganton while Don was being attended to (by someone else) for a bad motorcycle crash. Not knocking Seth at all, this was just another routine call for him. Very likeable fellow.
Back to the crash---and beachy made a good point. And I did not *see it happen, I was up the hill when it happened, so I'll leave it to Don to discuss those details. Don & I were connected by BT and I heard him say "I'm down" as I crested the hill. What a sinking feeling, but nothing compared to Don's ordeal. When I got back down there, Don was walking around just fine but his right wrist was badly dislocated and that hand was useless. His left wrist wasn’t so bad and he could use it some, we were hoping it was just a sprain. No luck though. He also had 2 very nasty gashes on the front of each shin where I think his legs crashed against the crash bars (or cylinders). I didn’t know this until I looked down and saw a pool of blood forming on the road around each of his boots. We tied some cloth strips around his legs and got him to sit down with legs uphill and that seemed to stop the bleeding.
The bike, although at frst glance looked pretty good, had severe front-end damage. Fork tubes broken, wheel, brakes, radiator, headlight, shock, windshield adjusting system, fairing, fork braces---maybe even the main frame. Easily $12K-$14K in just parts based on BMW replacement parts in the fiche.
I know everyone would like to know exactly why it happened for our own edification, myself included. Maybe when Don is feeling like it he will chime in. But point taken about posting details (or opinions) of this online. There were 4 other persons involved in this in the other vehicle, which went into the ditch also, airbags deployed, though none appeared injured at all. But I'm sure the ambulance chasers have already sent the usual letters out by now. So probably the less said by me the better. (that’s always the case anyway, right?
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