Ever had your hand run over by a truck?

so going home from visiting my brother at his deli job, it was just yesterday I had the bike running for a few days. rode it to school and work once each. a distance of 16mi~ each back and to.

so as I'm coming home I have the green and I'm in the bike lane. dude at the light decides to flick right quickly in which case I had no time to break. I avoided a frontal collision by turning right myself, flew off the bike into the street on my face, just as the back right wheel rolls over my hand. I jump up after this, pull my gloves off and my fingers are all out of place. this is my dominant hand. bent all kinds of ways.

guy hops out, throws my bike in the truck,( its a ford f-350...diesel pickup truck) and drives me to the hospital, offers to pay for it all. I have no insurance so sounds good to me.

they've got me staying here for two days while the swelling goes down so they can decide what course of action to take. I was lucky

anyone else have a crazy accident? I'm in excruciating pain even with percs and motphine and od like some good reads lol. thanks all.

p.s. bike only suffered a broken front rim.

bluegoatwoods said:

Can't say that I've ever had my hand run over by a truck. And I'm sorry it happened to you.

One thing worries me; did you get a police report? Did the police even get called?

It sure sounds like this guy at least recognized his stupid error and wanted to make it as right as possible. But it's amazing how little you can actually trust people on that.

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got all his info. not my first accident...but I am never at fault. always got hit from other. got his SSN, policy #, picture of his license, and his phone #.

so I had surgery on Wednesday...it was a closed reduction with percutaneous pinning of the 3rd, 4th and 5th left digits. I'm suing for a couple hundred thousand, expecting at least $100k. This guy owes me a LOT for his negligence.

It was my writing hand and I am literally one semester away from getting my Bachelor's in Computer Science and Mechanical engineering from NYU Polytech. Ugh. I'm taking some pretty tough classes(the last of em) and need to write. Also I cannot work. I did nothing to warrant this at all.

Can't wait to hop back on the gas bike though!