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Categories: ouch

Date: 20 January 2012 07:52:31

This was first published on St Pixels blog on 11 May 2006

Ow

Diary of an accident victim

Part one

Here I sit waiting. Not working, or anything else, just waiting.

Waiting for my bones to heal, waiting for the Crown Prosecution Service to decide on whether to prosecute the driver who hit me, and generally just waiting because the job I do can't be done with a foot in plaster. FLASHBACK...

March 14 2006, 7.45pm.

I had finished work for the day, and was cycling home, still wearing the high visibility vest I wear at work, and with lights on the bike on. I was looking forward to the corned beef hash and bread and butter pudding that would be waiting for me when I got home. Traffic was light. So was the rain, I turned off the main road, crossed the canal and was approaching where the road went under a railway bridge. Just before the bridge there is a crossroads, and I looked left down the road to check for traffic. Nothing, the road was clear. I turned to face forwards. There coming the other way was a car, Close... Very close, and it had already started to turn towards me. Let me say at this point that the road, coming from the car's direction, has a dogleg just after the bridge, so the road ahead cannot be seen, never mind the junction. BANG...

... to be continued.