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TheBadBunny
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Alrighty, then. I've decided a VERY bright lighting kit that's bright enough to be seen in full daylight is my next project. This Friday, the 11th of January 2008, I got plastered by a car while riding my (not yet motorized) bicycle back from work. IN BROAD DAYLIGHT, while I was riding on the right edge of the shoulder of the road, not even in the traffic lane itself. Some kid (who later said "I didn't even see you!"), who must have been right on the white line, if not a little bit over it, came flying up behind me and whacked me with his passenger-side mirror, tearing his mirror completely off and leaving me with a broken arm, and the left side of my abdomen looks as if a herd of buffalo stampeded over it. But here's the part that really frosts me: he stopped maybe 200 or 300 feet past where I landed, face first with my bicycle on top of me, and got out and talked to his buddy for 10 minutes before checking to see if I was even alive. I finally dug my cell phone out of my pocket with my good arm and called 911 myself. But THIS is the part that REALLY frosts me: while I was lying in the grass, waiting for the ambulance in agony, I asked the little swine to write down his insurance information for me, and he said "don't worry, I'll pay for the mirror."
And, of course, now everyone at work is going to say "I told you so!"
Ok, I'm through venting.
Now I need some advice. Although it was still light out when the accident happened (it was about six o'clock, but I had my taillight and headlight on already), it was dark by the time the leisurely cop who was sent to investigate showed up, since and one of the kid's buddies had helpfully turned my lights off and lifted the bicycle off of my back, I'm worried that he might put in his report that I was riding at night without a light. To make matters worse, I did not get a chance to talk to him. He said he would come talk to me in the hospital but never showed up, so everything in his report comes from the kid. Advice, anyone? Do I need to get a lawyer?
And, of course, now everyone at work is going to say "I told you so!"

Ok, I'm through venting.
Now I need some advice. Although it was still light out when the accident happened (it was about six o'clock, but I had my taillight and headlight on already), it was dark by the time the leisurely cop who was sent to investigate showed up, since and one of the kid's buddies had helpfully turned my lights off and lifted the bicycle off of my back, I'm worried that he might put in his report that I was riding at night without a light. To make matters worse, I did not get a chance to talk to him. He said he would come talk to me in the hospital but never showed up, so everything in his report comes from the kid. Advice, anyone? Do I need to get a lawyer?
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