I got whacked
Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 3:51 pm
I am really busy at the moment, but just wanted to report that I got rear-ended yesterday. Grrrrr...
I was in stop and go traffic at about 6:00 PM on I-80 westbound in New Jersey. It is the worst kind of traffic, where you get up to about 35 mph and then stop. I was in the far left lane. My mistake was not watching the mirrors vigilantly. I was bored sitting there.
Then I felt a thunk. A very young man in a very large SUV just clipped the left side. He knocked off the left system case, and the J.C. Whitney top case http://r1150r.org/board/viewtopic.php?t=8142. The turn signal was also dangling.
The impact on the left side made the bike lean right and I could not hold it up, so it slowly fell to the right. The right case got scuffed. Some passerby helped me pick up the bike.
Total damage: broken latch on left system case; broken latch on J.C. Whitney top case; scuffed right case. Turn signal was fine - I repaired that.
I suppose someone called the police because they were there quickly. In fact, there were two state police cars, one local police car, two ambulances, and one fire vehicle, all during rush hour on a major road in NJ. I never saw so many flashing lights. I thought the kid was going to faint.
After all the paper work was taken care of, I strapped the cases to the bike and rode to my brother-in-law's house, as he lived just a few miles away. I left the cases there, then rode the rest of the way home.
I was in stop and go traffic at about 6:00 PM on I-80 westbound in New Jersey. It is the worst kind of traffic, where you get up to about 35 mph and then stop. I was in the far left lane. My mistake was not watching the mirrors vigilantly. I was bored sitting there.
Then I felt a thunk. A very young man in a very large SUV just clipped the left side. He knocked off the left system case, and the J.C. Whitney top case http://r1150r.org/board/viewtopic.php?t=8142. The turn signal was also dangling.
The impact on the left side made the bike lean right and I could not hold it up, so it slowly fell to the right. The right case got scuffed. Some passerby helped me pick up the bike.
Total damage: broken latch on left system case; broken latch on J.C. Whitney top case; scuffed right case. Turn signal was fine - I repaired that.
I suppose someone called the police because they were there quickly. In fact, there were two state police cars, one local police car, two ambulances, and one fire vehicle, all during rush hour on a major road in NJ. I never saw so many flashing lights. I thought the kid was going to faint.
After all the paper work was taken care of, I strapped the cases to the bike and rode to my brother-in-law's house, as he lived just a few miles away. I left the cases there, then rode the rest of the way home.
Sorry to hear about the damage. 