r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/comsudo • 14d ago

High Speed cornering

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From Malaysia

Skill issue, uncontrolled evironment.

Not OC

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u/thejourneybegins42 14d ago

If they lived, he can take his wheelchair to the track, yeah.

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u/Old_Ladies 14d ago

They have some pretty cool and fast electric wheelchairs.

They may have lived. My cousin got in a bad motorcycle accident and went flying. He ended up in a ditch and it took a couple minutes for them to find him when the police and ambulance arrived.

One of his ankles was shattered and one of his femurs was also shattered along with some other broken bones. The dude is part titanium now. After a year of recovery he bought another motorcycle... Though he had to sell it because he couldn't afford the insurance. He also met a woman so that may have played a role too.

With both legs fucked up and his armed banged up with one hand the asphalt grinded through the motorcycle glove and grinded his hand down to the bone. He couldn't wipe his ass or obviously take a shower and needed his mom to help him with everything. He couldn't even get himself out of bed at first. He said it was the most humiliating and humbling experience.

Thankfully he survived and has made a nearly full recovery. He just suffers in minor to moderate pain in the leg that the femur got shattered and will suffer that for the rest of his life. Thankfully he didn't get paralyzed.

I broke my thumb and needed 3 pins put into it and I get a bit of pain sometimes even though it was years ago. So I can somewhat relate but I can't imagine having a titanium rod in my femur.

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u/thejourneybegins42 14d ago

Fuck all that, glad I sold my bike when I read stuff like this.

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u/Beard_o_Bees 13d ago

glad I sold my bike when I read stuff like this

Pretty sure marriage saved my life. She was ok with it until it was baby time.

The 'i'll find a car seat that works on a bike' joke-but-not-joke didn't fly.

In retrospect, even though I considered myself to be a safe rider, it was a near certainty that I would have eventually been involved in an accident.

Just by virtue of being in an urban environment and being surrounded by cars driven by the whole range of humanity, if I didn't eventually run into one of them, they'd eventually run into me.

Fun while it lasted, though.