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Well, it finally happened, me and my bike are invalids.

Got taken off at a set of traffic lights by a car who decided to turn in front of me. My bike is a write-off, the whole front end has been stoved in by the car's passenger-side door. I've suffered a broken arm and fractured wrist, stitches in my nose and bottom lip and severe bruising on and around my face and neck.

Bad times

Nick

Sorry to hear that mate hope you have a quick recovery!!

All the best Dave.(newbie)

Bad luck mate, Get well soon, and as my bike instructor always said everybody in a tin can is an idiot

and there's me whinging about a stone in my radiator....Get well soon and hope the insurance covers the costs!

Bad times dude, heres to a speedy recovery

Feck thats bound to smart a little...............................get well soon

What helmet where you wearing ?.................seems strange to have hurt your face so badly ?

i paper one buy the sounds of it haha o.j get well soon
p.s post a pic of ya bike

Cheers for the comments lads, i'm mending slowly, even if i am bored to death sitting at home.

my dad's picking the bike up in a couple of days, i'll put a pic up of it when i can.

I was wearing an AGV Stealth, 5 star S.H.A.R.P. rating, when i saw it in hospital (i'd blacked out so don't remember the crash very well) it had no visor and there were a couple of scratches to the front. I don't know if it came off or not

Nick

UK II Kazawacky wrote:Cheers for the comments lads, i'm mending slowly, even if i am bored to death sitting at home.

my dad's picking the bike up in a couple of days, i'll put a pic up of it when i can.

I was wearing an AGV Stealth, 5 star S.H.A.R.P. rating, when i saw it in hospital (i'd blacked out so don't remember the crash very well) it had no visor and there were a couple of scratches to the front. I don't know if it came off or not

Nick

Hope you recover well and get the bike sorted quickly...

I use an AGV Stealth, and my first impression of it was that the chin/nose part was much closer to my soft bits than the Shoei I had before it. A bit worrying to hear my thoughts on this confirmed, but I guess it doesn't necessarily mean an AGV Stealth will stop faceplant injuries any worse or better than other helmets. I think with most lids a face-on impact is going to cause problems if it's hard enough.

Glad it wasn't worse for you!