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While riding my first motorcycle when I was 17 a veterinarian pulled out in front of me, blocking my right of way. I could not stop in time and hit him broadside, breaking my leg in a compound fracture and totaling the motorcycle.

The emergency room doctor who initially treated me before sending me to another hospital was involved in a minibike accident not quite a year later. Though he was going rather slowly (how fast can you travel on an 1970's 80cc minibike, really), he died as a result of his injuries.

As it turns out, the emergency room doctor was himself an organ donor. The way I see it, after all those years of cracking organ donor jokes, instant karma got him. Thirty years later, I'm still riding . . .

***While riding my first motorcycle when I was 17 a veterinarian pulled out in front of me, blocking my right of way. I could not stop in time and hit him broadside, breaking my leg in a compound fracture and totaling the motorcycle.***

I feel your pain (no offense and not joking)).

I had a similar experience when I had my first bike, a little Suzuki 150cc, EXCEPT the car hit ME broadside. He was pulling out of a side street heading South while I was on a main street going West. I went flying over the handle bars, landed bout 30-40 feet down the street head first with my right ankle shattered (compound fracture) and a few small bones in the right foot fractured too. I still have a screw going through it. Its just under the skin on both sides and it hurts like hell if I even bump it. And If I wasn't wearing a helmet I'd have been dead. (IL had a helmet law then).

And as a couple posters have noted the guy in the car said to cops "I didn't see him". Oh and he admitted to the cops that he had an eye infection and was taking some kind of eye medicine - the JERK shouldn't even have been driving. So its no wonder he "didn't see me".

An aside, that accident didn't stop me, oh-no. As my bike was totaled (I think I paid $450.00 for it brand new), I subsequently went out an bought a HD Sportster XLCL and joined an MC 'Club' - now that was dangerous (semi kidding).