Welp got into my first accident with a vehicle on my board today.
Ran square into the side of a USPS van at ~15-20 mph. The driver coasted through a stop sign as I was doing 25ish in the bike lane. Slammed on the brakes and started yelling but was too late.
Board got snapped in half when it apparently got ran over by the other side of the van. Motor and mount are boned; props to @torqueboards because the clamp didn’t break even when supporting 1/4 the weight of the van
lots of little cuts and bruises, whole left side of my body is throbbing bad but I didn’t break anything.
Pretty proud of myself for making such a wicked dent without totally wrecking myself.
True, I’m curious as to the nature of the road, not saying our friend is in fault at all, the USPS driver should have looked and not cruised through, but I run stopsigns sometimes instead of stopping, so I wonder if there was a stop on the bike lane
Hard to tell from pictures but if it is only a 2 way stop, could be good payout lol otherwise hopefully the blame doesn’t fall evenly
Glad you’re okay though @Genex cars are stupid sometimes
There’s a saying here in Philly called the “South Philly roll”. It’s when you don’t come to a complete stop but just kinda roll through the stop sign slowly. I’ve been almost hit numerous times because people do that shit.
Unfortunately she didn’t have any packages for me… But if she did she would have forgotten because as I was laying on the ground writhing around it took her all of .23 seconds to begin yelling that she was sorry and asking if i was OK and what not.
She got a citation and I’m sure the insurance claim will go through with no problem. In comparison to what I could do if I took USPS to claims court paying a few thousand to replace my laptop and board is peanuts. I’m not worried about the money, though, just glad I’m fine tbh.
I even probably got her out of being fired lol. The postmaster (usps mob boss if you will) was freaking out and when I talked to him about insurance he asked me what she did. I sugar coated it because she was genuinely concerned about me and mistakes happen. Who knows.
At the end of the day money isn’t the concern, but im sure it will work itself out
Yea, it was a major road and no bike lane stop. She must have both coasted and not seen me. Shit happens, luckily the road wasn’t very busy and I got bounced back out of the way of traffic.
Both of my shoes got launched off so you know it was badass to witness.